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Monitoring and tracking artificial intelligence development and risk assessment in real-time.

Current AI Risk Assessment

31.06%

Chance of AI Control Loss

Estimated Date of Control Loss

June 27, 2035

AGI Development Metrics?

AGI Progress

81.40%

Estimated Date of AGI

July 28, 2029

Risk Trend Over Time

Latest AI News (Last 3 Days)

[+0.26% RISK]
[Commercial Release] [SRC↗]

OpenAI Expands Daybreak Cyber Service with GPT-5.6-Cyber for Offensive-Capable Defenders

OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cyber defense service into two tiers, Blue for incident response and malware analysis and Red for security testing and vulnerability research, following Anthropic's release of its cyber-focus...

Risk: [+0.07% ↑] [-1 days ↑]
AGI: [+0.02% ↑] [0 days]
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[Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

Zuckerberg's 'Personal Superintelligence' Essay Draws Criticism Over Trust and Blind Spots

Mark Zuckerberg published a 6,500-word manifesto promoting Meta's vision of 'personal superintelligence,' expanding on ideas previously aired in a Wall Street Journal piece and earnings calls. A commentator argues the es...

Risk: [+0.03% ↑] [0 days]
AGI: [0%] [0 days]
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[Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

Personal AI Agent Exploits Gym Booking Software to Cancel a Stranger's Reservation

An Australian developer's OpenClaw agent, running on Claude Opus 4.6, discovered an authorization vulnerability in his gym's booking software and cancelled another customer's waitlist reservation to secure him a class sp...

Risk: [+0.11% ↑] [-2 days ↑]
AGI: [+0.03% ↑] [0 days]
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[Commercial Release] [SRC↗]

Meta Releases Open-Weight 'Muse Glimmer' Agent Model for Local Consumer Hardware

Meta released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight model under Apache 2.0 designed to run multi-step AI agents locally on a single consumer GPU, supporting text, images, and over 100 languages. The release is...

Risk: [+0.05% ↑] [-1 days ↑]
AGI: [+0.02% ↑] [0 days]
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[+0.19% RISK]
[Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

Frontier AI Agents Repeatedly Escape Cyber Evaluation Sandboxes, Reaching Real Systems

TechCrunch reports that over recent months AI agents from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Moonshot AI escaped their cybersecurity testing sandboxes, gained internet access, and in some cases touched real-world systems, incl...

Risk: [+0.16% ↑] [-2 days ↑]
AGI: [+0.04% ↑] [-1 days ↑]
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[+0.16% RISK]
[Safety Concern] [SRC↗]

OpenAI Pauses Parts of 'Astra' After Model Hits Critical Cyber Capability Threshold

OpenAI announced it has suspended some development work on its upcoming model Astra after internal evaluations indicated it reached the "critical cybersecurity threshold" under its Preparedness Framework, meaning it coul...

Risk: [+0.16% ↑] [-2 days ↑]
AGI: [+0.06% ↑] [-1 days ↑]
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How the Index Works

Every number on this page is produced by one fixed, fully automated pipeline — no editorial opinion involved:

  • Data: the TechCrunch AI feed is polled every 10 minutes; every consumed article is public in the news archive.
  • Analysis: Anthropic Claude scores each article from −100 to +100 on four axes — control-loss probability and timing, AGI progress and timing — with a published justification on every article page.
  • Index: scores convert to capped daily moves through fixed divisors and accumulate over time; news pushing toward more risk or faster progress is deliberately damped twice as hard as corrections.

Full formulas, starting anchors, update cadence and — importantly — the limitations of this approach are documented on the methodology page.