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• Sam Altman Just Revealed OpenAI's Wild Future Vision

• VanEck Drops $644K Bitcoin Long-Term Forecast

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TODAY IN AI

Sam Altman Just Revealed OpenAI's Wild Future Vision

We sat down with Sam Altman at Dev Day 2025 for a deep conversation on AGI, the future of work, and autonomous AI agents that's about to change everything.

Altman says AI's ability for "novel discovery" is already happening, with scientists across fields using the tool for breakthroughs. He thinks the future of work "may look less like work" compared to now, with fast transitions potentially changing the "social contract" around employment.

The CEO believes Codex is "not far away" from autonomously performing a week of work, saying the progress of agentic time-based tasks has been disorienting even internally.

But here's the wildest prediction: Altman highlighted the potential for zero-person, billion-dollar startups entirely spun up by a prompt becoming possible with future agentic advances.

Dev Day 2025 showed the next step in ChatGPT and OpenAI's agentic tooling evolution, but Altman's commentary revealed an even deeper look into the future the company envisions. No matter how strange AI-driven changes get, Altman remains confident in humanity's ability to adapt and thrive alongside them.

The future of work isn't evolving - it's being completely rewritten by AI that can operate autonomously for extended periods.

TODAY IN CRYPTO

VanEck Drops $644K Bitcoin Long-Term Forecast

VanEck just released one of the boldest Bitcoin forecasts ever - and it's not about this cycle. It's about Bitcoin's endgame.

Matthew Sigel, VanEck's head of digital assets research, projects Bitcoin could capture half of gold's $26 trillion market cap, implying $644K per BTC at today's gold prices.

For the first time in history, Bitcoin and gold are leading global markets together, both breaking records as faith in fiat fades. Gold's up 48% year-to-date, Bitcoin's up 30%, both driven by investors fleeing paper money for hard assets.

Sigel believes the next catalyst arrives after the 2028 halving when Bitcoin's supply gets cut in half again. "Younger investors, especially in emerging markets, increasingly view Bitcoin as superior to gold," he noted.

CoinRoutes CEO Dave Weisberger went further: "Bitcoin's real bull market hasn't even started yet. When it does, you'll know it from the disbelief."

Former PayPal president David Marcus said if Bitcoin were priced like gold, it would already trade north of $1.3 million per coin.

Bitcoin sits around $124K today - still miles from $644K. But remember: gold had centuries. Bitcoin's only had 17 years, and institutional adoption is accelerating while fiat credibility erodes.

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