Sam Altman Says the Singularity Is Here. The Evidence Suggests Otherwise

AI keeps getting more capable, but capability isn’t the same thing as intelligence. Here’s why the race toward AGI may be hitting a ceiling few want to acknowledge.

AI keeps getting more capable, but capability isn’t the same thing as intelligence. Here’s why the race toward AGI may be hitting a ceiling few want to acknowledge.
Every month, the jobs report is reduced to two numbers: how many jobs the economy added and whether the unemployment rate went up or down. If payrolls rise and unemployment falls, the labor market is declared strong. If unemployment rises, it is declared weak. That shorthand is simple, but it is also incomplete. And right…
Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Subtraction has a ceiling: once you’ve automated the obvious, you’re left with a cheaper business, not a more valuable one. Agents scale your execution and your blind spots equally — the more they do, the more your judgment has to be worth. Let me be…
Average UK house prices fell 0.4% in the year to August 2026, with prices down 0.2% over the previous month, according to Lloyds Bank. The average UK property price dropped from £299,569 a year ago to £298,468, according to Lloyds’ latest house price index (HPI). Prices fell during the month of August from an average…
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Payments have spent years getting faster. Fraud detection has not always kept pace. New August research from PYMNTS Intelligence, in collaboration with Plaid, shows that 47% of firms surveyed can’t detect suspected fraud in real time or within minutes. That is despite widespread use of sophisticated defenses: 90% use rules-based scoring before authorization, 83% use…