Articles about AGI

This 3-foot-tall robot wants to be your kid’s classroom buddy and your mom’s new friend

Mind Children Robotics, a Seattle-area startup co-founded by AGI researcher Ben Goertzel, is building Codey — a child-sized social robot priced under $10,000 and aimed at classrooms, hospitals and senior care. The company plans its first pilots in South Korea. Read More

Etzioni on AI: The Pope can talk, but only we can walk

In a guest op-ed, AI researcher and UW professor emeritus Oren Etzioni responds to Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical on AI, arguing that moral pronouncements — however eloquent — accomplish little unless people change their own behavior. Read More

Bill Gates says there’s ‘no upper limit’ on AI, citing opportunity and risk

Bill Gates says there’s “no upper limit” on how intelligent AI systems will become, and warns the world needs to prepare now for the disruptions ahead. Read More

Microsoft gets 27% stake in OpenAI, and a $250B Azure commitment

Microsoft and OpenAI announced the long-awaited details of their new partnership agreement Tuesday morning — with concessions on both sides that keep the companies aligned but not in lockstep as they move into their next phases of AI development. Read More

How to avoid getting squashed by OpenAI, and other startup insights from the company’s strategy chief

At the Madrona IA Summit in Seattle, OpenAI strategy chief Jason Kwon outlined how startups can avoid getting “Sherlocked” by the AI giant, while also offering insights on AGI, profitability, and the company’s new push into e-commerce. Read More

Amazon’s ‘model factory’ is training the next generation of AI on the tech giant’s own business

Amazon’s top AI scientist Rohit Prasad outlined a “model factory” approach and shift toward AI agents at Madrona’s IA Summit in Seattle. The strategy uses Amazon’s own internal systems as reinforcement learning gyms to accelerate the development of its Nova models and enterprise AI tools. Read More

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Etzioni on AI: The Pope can talk, but only we can walk

Bill Gates says there’s ‘no upper limit’ on AI, citing opportunity and risk

Microsoft gets 27% stake in OpenAI, and a $250B Azure commitment

How to avoid getting squashed by OpenAI, and other startup insights from the company’s strategy chief

Amazon’s ‘model factory’ is training the next generation of AI on the tech giant’s own business

Microsoft and OpenAI make a deal: Reading between the lines of their secretive new agreement

Meta snags Seattle startup co-founder for Zuckerberg’s elite superintelligence team