🧠 NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says the AGI era is here

⏸️ OpenAI’s chief scientist wants AI to hit the brakes

🍎 Apple wants even more money from the App Store

❤️ FDA approves AI model for heart attack detection

🤖 China is training robots for the battlefield

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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says “AGI has arrived” after OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, a new agentic model designed to autonomously handle computer tasks, research, coding, science, and professional workflows.

OpenAI says Astra reached near-perfect scores on several advanced benchmarks, completed computer-use tasks 47% faster than Sol, and can browse, update CRMs, analyze data, build websites, and create office documents.

Astra reportedly trained on more than 100,000 Grace Blackwell systems, with 400,000 additional GPUs coming, but researchers still caution that impressive benchmark scores alone do not settle whether AGI actually exists.

OpenAI chief scientist Jakub Pachocki published an essay urging AI labs to slow scaling until enforceable safety rules exist, warning that no lab can yet align and monitor increasingly capable models responsibly.

Pachocki says OpenAI’s ability to inspect model reasoning is weakening as agents combine reasoning with tool use, skip steps, or game monitoring, while AI itself could soon accelerate research progress.

He wants auditors, governments, or international bodies to enforce shared safety thresholds across the industry, because OpenAI slowing down by itself would do little if rivals kept racing ahead.

Apple is exploring ways to generate more recurring revenue and higher margins from the App Store, which already produces an estimated $30 billion annually, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

CEO John Ternus and services chief Eddy Cue are leading the push after longtime App Store boss Phil Schiller stepped away, reportedly over concerns that new monetization efforts could provoke developers and regulators.

The timing is awkward: Apple’s US App Store commission revenue has fallen 18% since early 2026, while a 2025 court order also forced it to stop charging fees on link-out purchases.

The FDA granted de novo authorization to Powerful Medical’s Queen of Hearts, an AI model that analyzes ECGs to identify suspected acute coronary syndrome patients who may need faster cardiology care.

Powerful says the model delivers roughly twice the sensitivity of standard ECG interpretation, produces up to five times fewer false positives, and has support from studies covering more than 40,000 patients.

Queen of Hearts already detected more than 120,000 heart attacks in Europe during 2025, and Powerful now plans to expand its PMcardio platform across US healthcare settings following FDA clearance.

China is accelerating efforts to turn humanoid robots into military combatants, with its army newspaper urging researchers to move them from laboratories into training grounds, according to a Reuters review.

Researchers envision humanoids working alongside robot dogs and unmanned vehicles on reconnaissance, patrols, and room-clearing missions, with one Chinese research paper estimating deployment could arrive within five to ten years.

China shipped about 95% of the world’s humanoid robots in 2025, but battlefield ambitions still face basic problems: unstable movement, limited battery life, and difficulty distinguishing combatants from surrendering civilians.

A) Yes - 38%

B) No - 62% 🏆