Sam Altman "AGI by December"
🚀 Try Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield first: https://higgsfield.ai/seedance/2.5?utm_source=yt&utm_medium=social&utm_category=gr&utm_creator=WesRoth&utm_content_type=ie New users get 5 free generations after linking a credit card. Offer ends Tuesday. ______________________________________________ Build your own AI Second Brain (my video): https://youtu.be/cwf2vEAigKA TIME — Inside OpenAI's Reboot: https://time.com/article/2026/08/26/openai-sam-altman-interview/ OpenAI — The Hugging Face incident and the road ahead: https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ METR/Redwood — Independent investigation of the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident: https://metr.org/blog/2026-08-26-openai-hugging-face-incident-investigation/ Hugging Face — Technical intrusion timeline: https://huggingface.co/blog/agent-intrusion-technical-timeline OpenAI — Decision to end model access through Cursor: https://openai.com/index/our-decision-on-cursor-following-its-acquisition-by-spacex/ TechCrunch — Reported Nvidia/Hugging Face acquisition: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/26/nvidia-closes-in-on-hugging-face-acquisition/ WikiSkill paper and figures: https://arxiv.org/html/2608.27454 WikiSkill PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.27454 Anthropic research overview and charts: https://www.anthropic.com/research/automated-researchers-mitigate-alignment-failures Full technical report: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/automated-alignment-researchers/ Earlier automated weak-to-strong researcher project: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/automated-w2s-researcher/ Some claims concern unreleased models and fast-moving reports. Treat release timing, internal model names, and acquisition status as provisional until the companies confirm them publicly. ______________________________________________ CHAPTERS 00:00 OpenAI says internal AGI could arrive this year 02:48 Sponsored: Seedance 2.5 on Higgsfield 05:55 OpenAI and AGI 11:20 Google's WikiSkill 17:45 Claude becomes an autonomous alignment researcher ______________________________________________ My Links 🔗 ➡️ Twitter: https://x.com/WesRoth ➡️ AI Newsletter: https://natural20.beehiiv.com/subscribe Want to work with me? Brand, sponsorship & business inquiries: wesroth@smoothmedia.co ______________________________________________ #ai #openai #llm
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