AI & Machine Learning

NVIDIA announced a 2 billion dollar strategic investment in Amsterdam-based Nebius Group, granting the AI cloud provider early access to next-generation Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs as both companies target over 5 gigawatts of deployed capacity by 2030.

Perplexity announces Personal Computer at Ask 2026, turning a Mac mini into a persistent AI agent with local file access, 20 orchestrated models, and enterprise integrations.

OpenAI releases its most capable model yet with autonomous computer operation and enterprise integrations, but the launch is overshadowed by Pentagon deal fallout and a reported 1.5 million user exodus.

Turing Award winner Yann LeCun's Paris-based startup raises the largest seed round in European history to develop world models, an alternative AI architecture that learns from physical reality rather than text prediction.

Apple is reportedly planning to retire Core ML at WWDC 2026 and introduce Core AI, a modernized framework intended to help developers integrate outside AI models into iOS apps, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Caitlin Kalinowski left OpenAI after the company signed a classified Pentagon agreement without sufficient deliberation on safeguards against domestic surveillance and lethal autonomy.

Alibaba releases Qwen3.5, a 397-billion-parameter open-weight model that activates only 17B parameters per pass, beats rivals on instruction-following benchmarks, and ships at 1/18th the cost of Gemini 3 Pro.

The Linux Foundation established AAIF on December 9, 2025, placing MCP, goose, and AGENTS.md under neutral open-source governance with eight platinum members including AWS, Google, and Microsoft.

OpenAI's Pentagon deal sparked a consumer backlash that drove Anthropic's Claude to the top of Apple's App Store, before a surge in demand caused a worldwide outage.

DeepSeek's first major AI release in over a year arrives amid Anthropic allegations that the Chinese lab used 24,000 fake accounts and 16 million queries to extract Claude's capabilities.

Google DeepMind's Gemini 3.1 Pro launches with a 2.5x reasoning improvement over its predecessor, topping the ARC-AGI-2 benchmark at 77.1% and ranking first across most tracked evaluations.

CoreWeave reports record Q4 revenue but a $452 million loss, while approximately $21 billion in total debt and securities class actions test the viability of GPU-backed financing.