Tracking the path to artificial general intelligence — and what comes after.
⚡ News GPT-5.4 Pro still dominates overall. Qwen 3.6 Max-Preview crushes coding benchmarks (now closed weights). DeepSeek V4-Flash at $0.07/output — 34x cheaper than GPT-5.5. Grok 4.20 with multi-agent debate for hallucination resistance. The model layer went quiet in May, but infrastructure moved.
⚡ News Anthropic warns AGI could arrive by 2028, says US must stay ahead of China in AI race. The timeline has compressed dramatically from just 12 months ago. Dario Amodei's message: capability is coming fast, and geopolitical positioning matters.
⚡ News The usually measured Hassabis dropped the S-word at Google's biggest product event of the year. Coincidence? AGI is 'just a few years away' — and so is Gemini Omni, Antigravity 2.0, and the biggest Search redesign in 25 years.
⚡ News For 80 years, mathematicians believed the square grid was optimal for the unit distance problem. An AI just proved them wrong — using algebraic number theory nobody expected.
👥 Tech Frontier AI models can now auto-solve most CTF challenges. The competitive format that trained a generation of security professionals is turning into a pay-to-write token-burning contest.
⚡ News OpenAI launched Daybreak with three GPT-5.5 model variants for cybersecurity, directly challenging Anthropic's Mythos. Same day: Google caught the first AI-developed zero-day in the wild.
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Updated May 27, 2026 • Data: METR, Epoch AI
