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Wes Roth · Wednesday · 28 min

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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🚀 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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