AI & Machine Learning

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.

From cURL killing its bug bounty to Godot maintainers burning out, the flood of low-quality AI-generated pull requests and security reports is forcing open source communities to fundamentally rethink how contributions are accepted.

Two product launches within four days signal that safe execution of LLM-generated code with real credentials has become a mainstream infrastructure problem.

Germany's first industrial AI cloud delivers 0.5 ExaFLOPS from a converted bank building cooled by the Eisbach river, marking Europe's boldest bid for AI independence from US hyperscalers.