AI & Machine Learning

NVIDIA announced DLSS 5 at GTC 2026, a real-time neural rendering system that uses generative AI to add photorealistic lighting and materials to game frames, launching fall 2026 for RTX 50-series GPUs.

Meta postpones its next-generation Avocado AI model by at least two months after benchmarks show it trailing rivals, raising questions about the company's $135 billion AI investment.

The largest cloud native conference opens March 23 in Amsterdam, introducing Agentics Day alongside 224 sessions spanning AI workloads, platform engineering, and security.

Alibaba releases four open-source Qwen 3.5 Small models ranging from 0.8 to 9 billion parameters, delivering multimodal reasoning on consumer hardware while the 9B variant outperforms models up to 13 times its size on key benchmarks.

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.