AI & Machine Learning Nieuws
Het laatste nieuws over kunstmatige intelligentie, large language models en machine learning — verzameld uit toonaangevende bronnen.
De wereld van kunstmatige intelligentie beweegt snel. Nieuwe modellen zoals GPT, Claude, Gemini en Llama verschijnen in hoog tempo, en de mogelijkheden groeien met elke release. Van chatbots die natuurlijke gesprekken voeren tot systemen die code schrijven, beelden genereren en medische diagnoses stellen — AI verandert hoe we werken en leven.
Op deze pagina vind je het laatste AI-nieuws, verzameld uit bronnen als TechCrunch, MIT Technology Review en Ars Technica. Of je nu interesse hebt in open source modellen, nieuwe benchmarks, of de bredere discussie rond AI-regulering — we houden je op de hoogte.
Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in 7 new countries
Google rolt de AI-functie Gemini uit in Chrome in zeven nieuwe landen: Australië, Indonesië, Japan, de Filipijnen, Singapore, Zuid-Korea en Vietnam. Deze uitrol omvat zowel desktop- als iOS-apparaten in al deze landen, met uitzondering van Japan, waar het alleen op desktop beschikbaar is. Deze stap breidt de bereikbaarheid van Gemini verder uit voor gebruikers in de regio.
Google rolls out Gemini in Chrome in APAC countries
Google rolt de AI-functie Gemini uit in Chrome voor gebruikers in Australië, Indonesië, Japan, de Filipijnen, Singapore, Zuid-Korea en Vietnam. Deze uitrol geldt voor zowel desktop- als iOS-apparaten in al deze landen, met uitzondering van Japan waar het alleen op desktop beschikbaar is. Hiermee breidt Google zijn diensten uit in de Aziatisch-Pacific regio om gebruikers betere AI-mogelijkheden te bieden.
Tesla brings its robotaxi service to Dallas and Houston
Tesla brengt zijn robotaxi-service nu naar Dallas en Houston, waardoor het bedrijf de dienst aanbiedt in drie steden in Texas, na de lancering in Austin vorig jaar. Dit betekent dat Tesla zijn autonome ritten verder uitrolt in de staat. Vanaf januari 2026 zal de service ritten zonder veiligheidscoureurs mogelijk maken.
Apple’s John Ternus will run one of the world’s most powerful companies; the job is a minefield
John Ternus zal de leiding over Apple op zich nemen, een van de machtigste bedrijven ter wereld, maar deze baan is een ware minefield vol uitdagingen. De positie biedt bijna ongeëvenaarde macht en financiële beloningen, zoals enorme rijkdom. Echter, het komt ook met veel bagage, waaronder risico's en problemen die de rol complex maken.
AI research lab NeoCognition lands $40M seed to build agents that learn like humans
NeoCognition, een AI-onderzoeksbedrijf opgericht door een onderzoeker van OSU, heeft 40 miljoen dollar aan seed funding binnengehaald om AI-agenten te ontwikkelen die leren zoals mensen. Deze agenten zijn ontworpen om experts te worden in elk domein, wat de kern van hun innovatieve aanpak vormt. Hiermee wil het bedrijf de grenzen van AI verleggen en menselijke leerprocessen nabootsen.
ChatGPT’s new Images 2.0 model is surprisingly good at generating text
ChatGPT's nieuwe Images 2.0 model van OpenAI, dat voornamelijk is ontworpen voor het genereren van afbeeldingen, blijkt verrassend goed te zijn in het produceren van tekst. Dit toont aan hoezeer de capaciteiten van AI de afgelopen jaren zijn geëvolueerd, met een model dat oorspronkelijk niet voor tekstgeneratie was bedoeld. Al met al onderstreept dit de snelle vooruitgang in AI-technologie, waarbij modellen steeds veelzijdiger worden.
Sam Altman throws shade at Anthropic’s cyber model, Mythos: ‘fear-based marketing’
Sam Altman, CEO van OpenAI, bekritiseerde tijdens een podcast deze week het nieuwe cybersecurity-model van concurrent Anthropic, genaamd Mythos, door het af te doen als 'fear-based marketing'. Hij stelde dat het bedrijf angst gebruikt om het product indrukwekkender te laten lijken dan het daadwerkelijk is. Deze uitspraak onderstreept de groeiende concurrentie in de AI-sector, waar marketingstrategieën onder vuur liggen.
Building agent-first governance and security
As AI agents increasingly work alongside humans across organizations, companies could be inadvertently opening a new attack surface. Insecure agents can be manipulated to access sensitive systems and proprietary data, increasing enterprise risk. In some modern enterprises, non-human identities (NHI) are outpacing human identities, and that trend will explode with agentic AI. Solid governance and…
Clarifai deletes 3 million photos that OkCupid provided to train facial recognition AI, report says
The photo deletion comes after an FTC settlement with Clarifai. The company had asked OkCupid — whose executives had invested in Clarifai — to share data in 2014, according to court documents.
AI Dungeon maker Latitude unveils Voyage, a platform for creating AI-powered RPGs
Latitude's new AI-native platform, Voyage, aims to help gamers create their very own role-playing game.
Bond, a new social media platform, wants to use AI to help you kick your doomscrolling habit
Bond wants you to get off the couch and get back into the real world, its creator says. The new platform's AI system is designed to motivate users to do things away from the app.
YouTube expands its AI likeness detection technology to celebrities
YouTube is expanding its AI likeness detection tool to celebrities, giving talent and their reps a way to find and remove deepfakes.
GRAI believes AI can make music more social, not replace artists
AI music startup GRAI says fans want to remix tracks, not generate songs from scratch.
Contrary to popular superstition, AES 128 is just fine in a post-quantum world
A stubborn misconception is hampering the already hard work of quantum readiness.
The Download: turning down human noise, and LA’s stunning subway upgrade
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? As human society has expanded, animals have started struggling to hear one another. For many birds, the noise…
Digging for clues about the North Pole’s past
In the past, even with an icebreaker and during peak melt season, getting to the North Pole wasn’t a sure bet. It took favorable winds to crack the frozen ocean surface, and ships had to fight through ice that had grown many meters thick over several winters. In the summer of 2025, though, Jochen Knies…
Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return
Amazon has made another circular AI deal: It's investing another $5 billion in Anthropic. Anthropic has agreed to spend $100 billion on AWS in return.
It’s not just one thing — it’s another thing
This sentence construction ("It's not just this — it's that") has become so common in AI-generated writing that it's no longer just a clue that a piece of writing may be synthetic — it's almost a guarantee.
NSA spies are reportedly using Anthropic’s Mythos, despite Pentagon feud
NSA is said to be using Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model.
CEO and CFO suddenly depart AI nuclear power upstart Fermi
The startup, co-founded by former U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry, has faced headwinds with its AI campus in Texas.
The Download: murderous ‘mirror’ bacteria, and Chinese workers fighting AI doubles
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. No one’s sure if synthetic mirror life will kill us all In February 2019, a group of scientists proposed a high-risk, cutting-edge, irresistibly exciting idea that the National Science Foundation should…
Colossal Biosciences said it cloned red wolves. Is it for real?
If you want to capture something wolflike, it’s best to embark before dawn. So on a morning this January, with the eastern horizon still pink-hued, I drove with two young scientists into a blanket of fog. Forty miles to the west, the industrial sprawl of Houston spawned a golden glow. Tanner Broussard’s old Toyota Tacoma…
Chinese tech workers are starting to train their AI doubles–and pushing back
Tech workers in China are being instructed by their bosses to train AI agents to replace them—and it’s prompting a wave of soul-searching among otherwise enthusiastic early adopters.  Earlier this month a GitHub project called Colleague Skill, which claimed workers could use it to “distill” their colleagues’ skills and personality traits and replicate them with…
OpenAI’s existential questions
On the latest episode of Equity, we discuss OpenAI's latest acquisitions and whether they address "two big existential problems" for the company.
The 12-month window
A lot of AI startups exist partly because the foundation models haven't expanded into their category yet. As many jokingly acknowledge, that won't last forever.
Palantir posts mini-manifesto denouncing inclusivity and ‘regressive’ cultures
Palantir's ideological bent has come under more scrutiny as it's worked with ICE and positioned itself as a defender of "the West."
TechCrunch Mobility: Uber enters its assetmaxxing era
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.
AI chip startup Cerebras files for IPO
In recent months, the company announced an agreement with Amazon Web Services to use Cerebras chips in Amazon data centers, as well as a deal with OpenAI reportedly worth more than $10 billion.
Anthropic’s relationship with the Trump administration seems to be thawing
Despite recently being designated a supply-chain risk by the Pentagon, Anthropic is still talking to high-level members of the Trump administration.
The App Store is booming again, and AI may be why
New data from Appfigures shows a swell of new app launches in 2026, suggesting AI tools could be fueling a mobile software boom.
Sam Altman’s project World looks to scale its human verification empire. First stop: Tinder.
World, which has raised eyebrows (but also a lot of interest) with its Orb-centered anonymous verification project, is looking to expand its influence via a bevy of new partnerships.
US-sanctioned currency exchange says $15 million heist done by "unfriendly states"
Grinex says needed hacking resources "available exclusively to... unfriendly states."
Pie Day 2026
Ellie’s Pi Day post: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/pi-day-2026-food-institute/ How Ellie orchestrated the baking of 30 pies: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/behind-the-scenes-of-thirty-pies/
The Download: bad news for inner Neanderthals, and AI warfare’s human illusion
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The problem with thinking you’re part Neanderthal There’s a theory that many of us have an “inner Neanderthal.” The idea is that Homo sapiens and a cousin species once bred, leaving…
Recent advances push Big Tech closer to the Q-Day danger zone
Here's which players are winning the race to transition to post-quantum crypto.
The case for fixing everything
The handsome new book Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One, by the tech industry legend Stewart Brand, promises to be the first in a series offering “a comprehensive overview of the civilizational importance of maintenance.” One of Brand’s several biographers described him as a mainstay of both counterculture and cyberculture, and with Maintenance, Brand wants us…
How robots learn: A brief, contemporary history
Roboticists used to dream big but build small. They’d hope to match or exceed the extraordinary complexity of the human body, and then they’d spend their career refining robotic arms for auto plants. Aim for C-3P0; end up with the Roomba.  The real ambition for many of these researchers was the robot of science fiction—one…
Making AI operational in constrained public sector environments
The AI boom has hit across industries, and public sector organizations are facing pressure to accelerate adoption. At the same time, government institutions face distinct constraints around security, governance, and operations that set them apart from their business counterparts. For this reason, purpose-built small language models (SLMs) offer a promising path to operationalize AI in…
Treating enterprise AI as an operating layer
There’s a fault line running through enterprise AI, and it’s not the one getting the most attention. The public conversation still tracks foundation models and benchmarks—GPT versus Gemini, reasoning scores, and marginal capability gains. But in practice, the more durable advantage is structural: who owns the operating layer where intelligence is applied, governed, and improved.…
The Download: cyberscammers’ banking bypasses, and carbon removal troubles
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Cyberscammers are bypassing banks’ security with illicit tools sold on Telegram Inside a money-laundering center in Cambodia, an employee opens a banking app on his phone. It asks for a photo linked to the…
“Negative” views of Broadcom driving thousands of VMware migrations, rival says
Western Union exec says there were "challenges" working with Broadcom.
Iran-linked hackers disrupt operations at US critical infrastructure sites
As the US and Israel's war has ramped up, so too have hacks on US industrial sites.
Thousands of consumer routers hacked by Russia's military
End-of-life routers in homes and small offices hacked in 120 countries.
OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security
The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.
New Rowhammer attacks give complete control of machines running Nvidia GPUs
GDDRHammer, GeForge and GPUBreach hammer GPU memory in ways that hijack the CPU.
Quantum computers need vastly fewer resources than thought to break vital encryption
No, the sky isn't falling, but Q Day is coming, and it won't be as expensive as thought.
Google bumps up Q Day deadline to 2029, far sooner than previously thought
Company warns entire industry to move off RSA and EC more quickly.
Self-propagating malware poisons open source software and wipes Iran-based machines
Development houses: It's time to check your networks for infections.
Widely used Trivy scanner compromised in ongoing supply-chain attack
Admins: Sorry to say, but it's likely a rotate-your-secrets kind of weekend.
Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program
Broadcom says the group is misrepresenting market "realities."