Andrej Karpathy’s remarks come at a time of rising concerns about AI replacing workers, of mass layoffs, with AI being seen as the culprit.

Inveterate overpromiser Elon Musk is teasing that his chatbot Grok could soon “achieve artificial general intelligence,” or AGI — a hypothetical form of AI system that surpasses humans in virtually every way, and remains the white whale of the AI industry.

The move followed a viral controversy in which users of OpenAI’s Sora 2 model, an AI text-to-video generator, generated a realistic AI-made video of actor Bryan Cranston appearing alongside a digital likeness of Michael Jackson—without the actor's consent.

The company is encouraging employees affected to apply for other jobs at Meta, with most expected to find other roles

OpenAI, along with Oracle and Vantage Data Centers, will develop a data center campus in Wisconsin, as part of the Stargate project, to keep the U.S. ahead in the global artificial intelligence race,