
Databricks CTO Wins ACM Prize, Says AGI Is Already Here
Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and claims AGI has arrived, but his own argument - and a $134B company's incentives - complicate the picture.

Matei Zaharia wins the 2026 ACM Prize in Computing and claims AGI has arrived, but his own argument - and a $134B company's incentives - complicate the picture.

Meta's Superintelligence Labs will ship its first flagship models under a closed license, ending the company's open-source-first strategy at the frontier tier.

Nvidia's CEO told Lex Fridman he thinks AGI has been achieved. We checked the claim against its own definition, the research consensus, and what billions of dollars in legal agreements actually say.

OpenAI's chief scientist Jakub Pachocki has laid out a two-stage plan to deploy an autonomous AI research intern by September 2026 and a full AI researcher by March 2028, backed by $1.4 trillion in planned compute spending.

Andrew Ng says AGI is decades away and the real AI bubble risk is in the training layer - not inference. We examine both claims against the data.

David Silver leaves DeepMind to launch Ineffable Intelligence, raising $1B in Europe's largest seed round to pursue superintelligence through reinforcement learning instead of large language models.

Four UC San Diego researchers argue in Nature that current LLMs already constitute artificial general intelligence, igniting fierce debate across the AI community.