OpenAI chief scientist warns no-one is prepared for consequences of AI
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... OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has called for "extreme caution" over AI's runaway progress and warned more intervention may be needed to ensure "humans remain in control of the future".

"I am concerned no one is prepared for the consequences of a continued rapid rise in machine intelligence," he wrote in a blog post entitled "An Alien Mind". ...

Nvidia's Jensen Huang says 'AGI has arrived' after OpenAI GPT-6 Astra rollout for which Sam Altman said 'sorry'
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... Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has congratulated OpenAI following the debut of its latest frontier model, Astra, and declared that artificial general intelligence (AGI) has finally emerged.

Taking to social media platform X, he celebrated ChatGPT-maker's rapid technological progression while highlighting that Astra was developed using Nvidia's advanced hardware.

The term AGI refers to automated systems capable of equaling or exceeding human cognitive abilities across various domains. ...

ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all went down at once; enterprises need a backup plan
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... Thursday's outages across the three services highlight an uncomfortable reality: Enterprises are automating work faster than they're planning for AI failures.

Enterprises are facing a disturbing new question in the age of AI: What happens when agentic assistants go dark?

This became a very real scenario on Thursday, as OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and SpaceXAI's Grok near-simultaneously, and somewhat mysteriously, experienced significant, prolonged outages.

Beginning in the morning, Eastern time, several ChatGPT models went down over a roughly two hour period, Claude models over a four-hour span, and Grok models for a near three-and-a-half hour duration. All three companies acknowledged the "elevated" issues and applied fixes. ...