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Microsoft and OpenAI’s famed AGI agreement is dead

2026-04-27 · The Verge

OpenAI and Microsoft's legendary AGI clause — the one that was supposed to protect humanity by keeping superintelligence out of commercial deals — has been quietly killed off. Turns out when billions of dollars are on the line, even the most dramatic safety theater gets rewritten. The partnership that was going to save the world can't even keep its own contract intact.

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