Could've OpenAI faked AGI?

What chance this is a hoax from OpenAI? Whilst this ep is a great overview of this being probably AGI, let's go over the case for this being faked.

OpenAI is in deep financial trouble. Massive costs vs revenues that are increasingly flaky.
Sam Altman is a pathological liar, the New Yorker article from Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz New Yorker article provides heaps of evidence that even his closet business partners don't trust him.

AGI being reached is a clause in some key OpenAI funding contracts.
The researcher in this episode admits they only viewed a small subsection of the agents logs and only via OpenAI's own tooling, and that they had to rush the investigation. Training is the largest cost sink for the frontier labs, and this just gave them a reason to pause that spend.

The risk profile that this provides could only help push through legislation in the US that banned all AI except govt approved and regulated models, that means the biggest risk to OpenAI's revenues (and thus them as an operating entity), Chinese models, would be locked out of the market.

China leads the world in most tech sectors. Their AI ecosystem is much larger and much more dynamic than the US one. Their models are cheap and open... why haven't we seen anything like this happen with those models (which have exponentially more people developing on them than the closed US models)?