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TechCrunch May 28, 2026 at 14:30 Startups Rising Hot

RSI is the new AGI — and it’s just as hard to pin down

A new crop of AI labs are focused on recursive self-improvement — but the goal is proving elusive.

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May 28, 2026 at 14:30 TechCrunch

RSI is the new AGI — and it’s just as hard to pin down

A new crop of AI labs are focused on recursive self-improvement — but the goal is proving elusive.

May 6, 2026 at 21:57 TechCrunch

Barry Diller trusts Sam Altman. But ‘trust is irrelevant’ as AGI nears, he says.

Barry Diller defended OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, while warning that AGI remains an unpredictable force needing guardrails.

May 4, 2026 at 16:57 TechCrunch

Elon Musk’s only AI expert witness at the OpenAI trial fears an AGI arms race

Stuart Russell is a long-time AI researcher who thinks governments need to restrain frontier labs.

Apr 29, 2026 at 15:00 OpenAI News

Building the compute infrastructure for the Intelligence Age

OpenAI scales Stargate to build the compute infrastructure powering AGI, adding new data center capacity to meet growing AI demand.

Apr 26, 2026 at 16:00 OpenAI News

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Our mission is to ensure that AGI benefits all of humanity. Sam Altman shares five principles that guide our work.

Apr 24, 2026 at 02:45 Hacker News

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Elon Musk is publicly reframing xAI’s massive Anthropic compute deal as short-term and cancellable, despite SpaceX’s own S-1 filing describing payments through May 2029.

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Sesame, the conversational AI startup from Oculus founders, launches its iOS app

Sesame’s new iOS app brings its conversational AI agents to the public, offering more natural back-and-forth interactions designed to feel less like traditional chatbots and mor...

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