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Computer scientist Yann LeCun: “Intelligence really is about learning”

I arrive 10 minutes ahead of schedule from an early morning Eurostar and see Yann LeCun is already waiting for me, nestled between two plastic Christmas trees in the nearly empty winter garden of Michelin-starred restaurant Pavyllon. The restaurant is next to Paris’s Grand Palais, where President Emmanuel Macron kick-started 2025 by hosting an international

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AI dominates CES 2026 as annual Las Vegas tech trade show kicks off

It’s once again time for the annual CES trade show to shine a spotlight on the latest tech that companies plan to offer in 2026. AI was at the top of the agenda, with many companies displaying AI-powered robots. But all eyes were on the NVIDIA founder, Jensen Huang, who gave a keynote speech and

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NVIDIA DRIVE AV Software Makes Production Debut in New Mercedes-Benz CLA

NVIDIA’s DRIVE AV software is set to hit US roads later this year with its first production deployment in the all-new Mercedes-Benz CLA, as per the NVIDIA’s official blog. The launch brings enhanced Level 2, point-to-point driver-assistance capabilities to consumers and signals the start of broader adoption of NVIDIA’s full-stack automotive software. The new CLA

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MCPs for Developers Who Think They Don’t Need MCPs

The following article originally appeared on Block’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission. Lately, I’ve seen more developers online starting to side eye MCP. There was a tweet by Darren Shepherd that summed it up well: Most devs were introduced to MCP through coding agents (Cursor, VS Code) and most devs struggle to

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No, Grok can’t really “apologize” for posting non-consensual sexual images

Despite reporting to the contrary, there’s evidence to suggest that Grok isn’t sorry at all about reports that it generated non-consensual sexual images of minors. In a post Thursday night (archived), the large language model’s social media account proudly wrote the following blunt dismissal of its haters: “Dear Community, Some folks got upset over an

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If You’ve Never Broken It, You Don’t Really Know It

The following article originally appeared on Medium and is being republished here with the author’s permission. There’s a fake confidence you can carry around when you’re learning a new technology. You watch a few videos, skim some docs, get a toy example working, and tell yourself, “Yeah, I’ve got this.” I’ve done that. It never lasts. A

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AI, MCP, and the Hidden Costs of Data Hoarding

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is genuinely useful. It gives people who develop AI tools a standardized way to call functions and access data from external systems. Instead of building custom integrations for each data source, you can expose databases, APIs, and internal tools through a common protocol that any AI can understand. However, I’ve

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