As expected, OpenAI has released its first autonomous AI agent, called Operator this week. Operator can act independently from you on your computer using a web browser doing pretty much anything that can be done in a web browser.

The evidence so far suggests that lofty proclamations about AI doubling human lifespans and attaining superintelligence before the next Olympics are blustering attempts to woo more investors, says Alix Dunn, founder and CEO of Computer Says Maybe, a technology policy organization.

The 55 th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum opened this week with a powerful message and all-encompassing themes. Klaus Schwab, World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, global leaders, leaving no doubt about his message: the undeniable need for, in Schwab’s words, Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.

Talk of AI agents is everywhere in Davos. AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio warned against them.

OpenAI Inc. CFO Sarah Friar said the company had "a big breakthrough" around reasoning models in 2024. "We do internally feel that we have a path towards AGI," Friar told Bloomberg's Shirin Ghaffary.

Indeed, AGI will most likely be able to reason, learn, and innovate in any task. It will also not only match but outperform humans in its cognitive capabilities – and the milestone might even be reached this year, as the eternal AI optimist, Open AI CEO Sam Altman argues.

On Tuesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted that AI models may surpass human capabilities "in almost everything" within two to three years, according to a Wall Street Journal interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The focus at the 2024 World Economic Forum will be U.N. chief António Guterres's speech, AI risks and Trump's trade tariff plans.

As AI heavyweights boast big advances for 2025, CIOs advise their peers to focus on the practicalities of business-aligned use cases that augment rather than replace human work.

Updates: The 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum will convene under the theme - Collaboration for the Intelligent Age.

Business and nonprofit leaders participated in a wide-ranging TIME100 Talk at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei claims that generative AI could surpass human cognitive capabilities "in almost everything," even robotics, within 2-3 years.