Neil deGrasse Tyson's popular-science book "Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Your First Alien Encounter" was published on May 12, 2026, by Simon Six, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
On August 7, 2026, OpenAI published a blog post announcing that internal evaluations of its upcoming AI model, Astra, show advanced agentic coding and cybersecurity performance significant enough that the company "cannot rule out critical cyber capabilities" — the highest tier in OpenAI's own Preparedness Framework.
On July 25, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on the "Relentless" podcast that "we're now, like, in the singularity," framing current AI progress as the beginning of a major civilizational transition.
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