AGI is moving faster than we are

DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis says AGI is near, but Asia’s latest AI developments show there’s work left. Plus, SenseTime’s own AGI vision.

DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis says AGI is near, but Asia’s latest AI developments show there’s work left. Plus, SenseTime’s own AGI vision.
HELSINKI, Finland (June 2, 2026) — It is often rumored that the mild climate is the real secret of Silicon Valley. This rule doesn’t seem to apply in Europe, since the farther north we go, the higher is the ability to start and scale innovative companies. This is what reveals the latest Monitor presented today…
bluejayphoto/iStock/Getty Images Plus Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Reskilling for jobs has changed dramatically. There are lessons to learn from the last decade’s tech job push. Uncertainty around AI makes reskilling workers tricky. When Rider Rodriguez founded Code Louisville 13 years ago, he imagined the tech skills…
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Presented by Atlassian Most companies are approaching AI adoption backwards by optimizing how individuals use AI instead of how teams work together, said Dr. Molly Sands, head of the Teamwork Lab at Atlassian, during a fireside chat with VentureBeat senior technology contributor Sam Witteveen at VB Transform 2026. Sands leads a team of behavioral scientists…
The spread between the cost of barrels of gasoline and crude oil — known as the “crack spread” — has widened sharply.
Market snapshot: CSM Technologies Limited has bagged a prestigious World Bank-backed digital procurement project in Malawi, as disclosed in its stock exchange filings on July 15, 2026. This overseas contract win underscores the recently listed GovTech player’s growing global momentum, following its par stock market debut on July 2, 2026. Data Snapshot CSM Technologies completed…