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Hassabis Sets 2030 AGI Deadline & Enterprise AI Hits 300K Seats
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Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis warns AGI could arrive by 2030 — and governments are nowhere near ready. Plus: 300K enterprise Copilot seats, Anthropic's democracy research team, and what it all means for the next five years.
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The head of Google DeepMind just put a date on the most consequential technological shift in human history. Demis Hassabis said this week that artificial general intelligence is likely arriving around twenty-thirty.
Here's the practical problem. Regulatory frameworks move on timescales measured in years.
A dedicated democracy-impact research team inside an AI company is genuinely new. It's not a safety board or an ethics statement.
While the governance conversation plays out, enterprise adoption isn't waiting. Infosys, TCS, and Wipro have each crossed one hundred thousand Microsoft three-sixty-five Copilot users.
Microsoft is extending that pressure downward. On July first, new Copilot tiers for Business Standard and Business Premium launch, targeting small and medium businesses directly.
GitHub is moving in the same direction with its own expanded pricing tiers, now including free, pro, pro-plus, and max plans. The new tiers bring cloud agents, automated code review, and integrations with both Claude and OpenAI's Codex.
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