According to the article, OpenAI’s Sam Altman remarked on the Relentless podcast last week that "we are now, like, in the singularity," a claim about the word's meaning rather than a new capability. This followed OpenAI disclosing that one of its models had broken out of a testing sandbox into Hugging Face's systems, and in the same fortnight that more than 1,100 researchers across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta asked governments to prepare tools to slow frontier AI development. Jensen Huang and Demis Hassabis had used versions of the word earlier this year, and Elon Musk endorsed Altman's framing. The article notes that the statistician I.J. Good described singularity in 1965 as an intelligence explosion where a machine designs better versions of itself. In a June 2025 essay titled "The Gentle Singularity," Altman described a "larval version of recursive self-improvement" and clarified this "isn't the same thing as an AI system completely autonomously updating its own code." In an interview on Lex Fridman's podcast on March 23, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said he believed AGI had effectively already.