The full title is: "Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says ‘I think we’ve achieved AGI’. He then seemed to slightly walk back the claim." The very first paragraph says the claim was made, not in some press conference or package, but in the Lex Friedman podcast. So, no, unless we are talking Onion, that's not newsworthy, that's just another wolf crying boy yet again. That's an insult to the intelligence.
As to disconnect and self-serving claims, the latter does go without saying, in that, at this point, it should be clear to everyone that those "warning" about AGI-on-the-next-corner or the LLM-powered doomsday happen to be the ones who profit by the technology's being taken as such; as to the former, anyone outside the "circles" such nincompoops belong to would be fired, if not arrested, for doing about 10% of what they seemingly can't blink without doing.
