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In his new book 'The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence,' journalist Kevin Roose contends that society is already experiencing the uneven, formative stage of artificial general intelligence rather than waiting for a future arrival. He outlines five key insights describing this transitional period as 'jagged,' marked by uneven progress across different capabilities and sectors.
Speaking at a conference in Abu Dhabi, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said AI has gone from being 'mostly not as smart' as leading scientists at the start of the year to now being 'mostly smarter' than them. He made the remark while arguing humans, not AI, should remain in control of the future.
Weeks after Trump directed federal agencies to use 'super intelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence,' Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used the term during their companies' recent earnings calls, with Musk renaming SpaceX's AI unit SpaceXSI. Other executives, including Amazon's Andy Jassy, Microsoft's Satya Nadella, and Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, stuck largely with 'AI' in their public remarks, while IBM's Arvind Krishna and Intel's Lip-Bu Tan used both terms interchangeably.
On recent earnings calls, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg used the term 'superintelligence' instead of 'artificial intelligence,' following President Trump's late-September directive ordering the phrase used across executive branch agencies. Musk's SpaceX had already renamed its AI unit SpaceXSI, while Meta has used the term since launching its Meta Superintelligence Labs last year. Other tech CEOs did not adopt the language on their recent calls.
Meta Platforms said it intends to raise as much as $95 billion to support its large-scale investments in artificial-intelligence infrastructure, including efforts tied to what it calls personal superintelligence. The company did not detail the exact financing structure in the announcement.
Meta is launching roughly $35 billion in stock and convertible preferred securities this week, with a further $60 billion share-sale program planned once new nonvoting Class C shares begin trading in early 2027. The company says the fundraising will help finance its AI infrastructure expansion, including four superclusters each exceeding one gigawatt of capacity, as annual capital spending is now forecast at $135 billion to $145 billion. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom have reportedly expressed interest in buying up to $5 billion of the shares combined.
Microsoft published a study in Science showing its MAI-DxO system, which orchestrates multiple AI agents to question patients and debate diagnoses, correctly diagnosed complex NEJM case studies 83% of the time, versus 36% for primary care doctors working alone. The system performed best when paired with OpenAI's GPT-5 and GPT-5.5 models, and Microsoft also measured cost, saying its orchestration layer reduced the price per case by about $3,000 compared to running GPT-5 alone.
Elon Musk said on SpaceX's latest earnings call that there is
Anthropic published an internal report on how its employees now use its Claude AI agents day-to-day, with workers describing a shift from doing tasks themselves to overseeing and managing multiple AI agents, a practice some called 'babysitting Claudes.' The report follows last month's resignation of an employee who publicly warned that the company was 'racing straight to self-improving superintelligence.'
The Trump administration has launched a new government website, SI.gov, as part of an effort to rebrand artificial intelligence policy under the term 'superintelligence.' The site is tied to President Trump's push to reframe how AI is discussed in government communications.
At X's Takeover event, Elon Musk told attendees he has experienced what he called 'cyber psychosis' or 'AI/SI psychosis' roughly half a dozen times in 2025. He described the episodes casually, using 'SI' to mean superintelligence, a term recently promoted by a Trump executive order renaming artificial intelligence.
In an interview with CNBC's David Faber, Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell said AI models need built-in safeguards and controls, comparing the technology to fire that can both help and harm. He said government has a role to play alongside companies setting their own permission limits, though he declined to specify what government regulation should look like, noting he is not a policymaker.