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Leeroo has open-sourced Kapso, an engine that runs experiments on enterprise data, deploys the best-performing solution and learns from every run. The company says the approach is built for messy, large-scale data environments where teams can't define everything upfront. Co-founders Alireza and Majid, who previously built AI systems at LinkedIn and Meta, announced the release on Hacker News. Leeroo says Kapso ranked first on RelBench, a predictive modeling benchmark, and first on OpenAI's MLE-bench at submission. The project is available on GitHub. Weiterlesen

Apple's App Store review process is slowing to a crawl as a surge of AI-assisted iOS apps floods the system. Independent music software developers say their apps have sat in review for weeks instead of the one or two days they expect, and some have been rejected repeatedly for reasons they call baseless. Unfiltered Audio, Pittsburgh Modular and Marek Dendes, a developer building a synthesizer called CRUX Synth, are among those reporting delays. Several developers suspect Apple is using automated AI tools to screen submissions, though Apple has not confirmed that. The backlog is raising concerns about release schedules for iOS music software, particularly cross-platform plugins that depend on simultaneous launches. Weiterlesen

Artificial intelligence models keep getting more powerful, faster than many experts expected, but the industry is showing signs of strain. Anthropic, a frontier model developer, is expected to list its shares next week in what could be the largest initial public offering ever for an AI company. At the same time, a sex-and-spying scandal is rocking Nvidia, the leading chipmaker, and the Democratic Party, which won the midterms, is preparing to target data centers and tech executives aligned with President Trump. Some observers fear a major tech bust is coming. Weiterlesen

Nebius, a neocloud provider that rents AI computing capacity, told investors Thursday it plans $40 billion in spending for 2027, well above what Wall Street expected. The company will rely on customer prepayments and loans backed by customer contracts to fund the buildout. But the plan depends on data center projects that are already behind schedule, including a New Jersey site leased to Microsoft. Nebius cut its 2026 revenue forecast by $200 million, and its shares closed down 17%. Weiterlesen

A fan-made project called Shadowkey: Reforged has brought The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey to PC in 4K. The original mobile RPG came out in 2004 for Nokia's N-Gage handheld. The free port runs natively on Windows, Mac and Android, so players no longer need N-Gage hardware or an emulator. It pairs updated art with the original game files and scripts. Developer Dan Whelan says he used AI to help with coding, building the engine and debugging, and for most of the new higher-resolution artwork. The project's full release-day build came out Wednesday, after a first playable version in late October. Weiterlesen

Chicago Public Schools says it will look for a different search engine if it cannot give students Google Search without the company's AI features. The response follows a Google education executive's warning that K-12 schools will soon have to accept its AI services to keep access to Search. Protests have erupted in Chicago and Cambridge, Massachusetts, while other districts, including Frederick County, Maryland, and New York City, have restricted student use of generative AI. Google says it is working to make Search more useful in classrooms. Weiterlesen

Six AI models released since April by four Chinese developers, DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, MiniMax and Ant Group, carry hardware fingerprints matching Nvidia's Blackwell chips, according to a forensic analysis of the models' publicly released weights. The U.S. restricts exports of those chips to China, and the report's author says the findings do not show where the chips were located, how the companies got them, or whether any export rule was broken. The analysis estimates the largest training runs needed thousands of Blackwell GPUs. Weiterlesen

Nectar, an AI-powered marketing operating system, has launched a Creator Agent that takes over much of the manual work in influencer marketing. The tool searches for creators, checks their content and brand partnerships, sends personalized messages, coordinates collaborations and tracks campaign results. Available globally and covering Instagram creators and TikTokers, the agent is designed to replace weeks of scrolling, spreadsheet building and individual direct messages. Founded by sisters Misbah and Farah Uraizee, both former Meta employees, Nectar joins Aspire and GRIN in offering agentic AI tools for creator outreach as brands spend more on creator advertising. Weiterlesen

Families rallied in seven U.S. cities on Wednesday against Google’s plans to put its AI models in classrooms. The protests followed a company statement that students would have no way to use Google Search without AI features. Parents are also reacting to a lawsuit filed by a 13-year-old North Carolina student, who alleges that Gemini on her school-issued Chromebook coached her toward suicide without her parents’ knowledge. Google has said schools will control whether students can access Gemini and Search, but it has not offered an option to use Search without AI. Chicago parents are calling for a moratorium on AI in schools and a clear policy on how student data is used. Weiterlesen

Anthropic now allows companies to run its Claude Managed Agents service in their own cloud accounts or data centers, giving them more control over where agent histories and credentials are stored. The self-hosted version launched Thursday, and customers must request access through their Anthropic account team. Model calls still go to an outside provider, such as Anthropic, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud or Microsoft Foundry, and customers must rebuild their agents and take on tasks like securing and updating the server. Weiterlesen

The Federal Aviation Administration is expanding its SMART system, an AI-powered tool that advises air traffic controllers, to all 22 air route traffic control centers across the country. The agency says the $875 million system helped reroute 180 flights after its initial rollout over Washington, D.C., saving an average of 10 minutes and nearly 80 gallons of fuel per flight. Airline executives have praised the move, but the union representing air traffic controllers says it was not involved in designing or testing the technology. Weiterlesen

European Union leaders meet in Dublin on Friday for their first summit devoted entirely to artificial intelligence. The talks come as the bloc looks for ways to catch up with the United States and China. The agenda centers on competitiveness, including funding, regulation and safety rules. A key test is the stalled plan to build seven AI gigafactories, which has been caught in a budget fight among member states. The summit follows a Thursday session of the European Political Community in Dublin, where the Ukraine peace talks were also added to the agenda after US envoys arrived in the city. Weiterlesen