Building a web browser from scratch is considered one of the most complex software projects imaginable. All the more remarkable: Cursor set hundreds of autonomously working AI agents to exactly this task and after nearly a week produced a working browser with its own rendering engine.
Meta Superintelligence Labs has completed its first internal AI models, Chief Technology Officer Andrew Bosworth revealed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. Speaking with Reuters, Bosworth said the models are "very good," but there's still "a tremendous amount of work to do post-training." He didn't share specifics about what the models can do.
Meta is reportedly developing a text model codenamed "Avocado" and an image and video model called "Mango." The new lab came after CEO Mark Zuckerberg restructured Meta's AI leadership following criticism of the company's Llama 4 model. Bosworth called 2025 a "tremendously chaotic year" for building out the new training infrastructure.
At an Axios event, Bosworth shared his broader take on AI development. He noted that for everyday queries, the improvements between model generations—like GPT-4 to GPT-5—are getting smaller. Specialized applications like legal analysis, health diagnostics, and personalization, however, continue to see significant gains. That's why he believes the industry's massive AI investments will pay off eventually.
Ollama, the popular software for running AI models locally, now supports image generation on macOS. The feature is still experimental, with Windows and Linux support coming later. Two models are available at launch: Z-Image Turbo from Alibaba's Tongyi Lab is a 6-billion-parameter model that creates photorealistic images and can render text in both English and Chinese. The recently released Flux 2 Klein from Black Forest Labs is the German company's fastest image model yet, available in 4B and 9B variants.
The 4B version of Flux 2 Klein runs on standard graphics cards with at least 13 GB VRAM, such as an Nvidia RTX 3090 or 4070. The smaller version is available for commercial use, while the larger version is restricted to non-commercial applications. Generated images save directly to the current directory, and users can tweak image size, step count, and seed values. Additional models and image editing features are planned.
Following Microsoft's lead, OpenAI is reaching out to communities affected by massive AI infrastructure expansion. Through its "Stargate Community" program, the company promises that its AI data centers won't increase electricity prices for local residents. Microsoft made a similar pledge recently.
To deliver on this promise, OpenAI plans to fund its own energy sources, battery storage, and grid expansion. Each location will get a tailored plan based on local needs. The company also says it will better protect water resources and local ecosystems.
One year after announcing the Stargate project in January 2025, OpenAI says it has more than half of its 10-gigawatt capacity target for 2029 in the planning stages. The first site in Abilene, Texas is already training AI systems. Additional locations are under development in Shackelford County (Texas), Milam County (Texas), Dona Ana County (New Mexico), Port Washington (Wisconsin), Saline Township (Michigan), and Mount Pleasant (Wisconsin).
OpenAI has started offering ad placements in ChatGPT to dozens of advertisers. Unlike Google or Amazon, the company is initially charging based on views rather than clicks.
A new interactive demo from nonprofit CivAI reveals how differently AI models respond to ethical and political questions – and why Grok likes Elon Musk more than Mahatma Gandhi.
OpenAI is rolling out age prediction in ChatGPT to identify when an account likely belongs to someone under 18, so the system can apply the right experience and safeguards for teens. The model analyzes behavioral patterns like usage times, how long the account has been active, and the age users entered at signup. When someone gets flagged as a minor, ChatGPT automatically enables safety features that block, among other things, graphic violence, sexual roleplay, depictions of self-harm, and content about extreme beauty standards.
The move follows OpenAI's announcement that adults will get access to some of this previously restricted content, making age verification a necessary first step. It also comes after cases of teenagers developing dangerous dependencies on AI chatbots, some with fatal outcomes.
Adults who get incorrectly flagged as minors can verify their age by taking a selfie through the Persona service. Parents get additional controls, including rest periods and notifications when the system detects signs of acute distress. The feature launches in the EU in the coming weeks. More details on OpenAI's help page.
Demis Hassabis (Google Deepmind) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) are already seeing early signs of AI's impact on the job market. Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Hassabis said entry-level jobs and internships could take a hit this year, something he's already noticing at Deepmind. In the near term, new and potentially more meaningful jobs could emerge, Hassabis said, but once AGI (artificial general intelligence) arrives, we're in uncharted territory. He criticized governments and economists for failing to grasp the scale of the changes ahead.
Amodei is sticking with his prediction that half of office jobs for young professionals could vanish within one to five years. Like Hassabis, he says he's already seeing this at Anthropic, where the company expects to need fewer junior and mid-level employees going forward. AI could outperform humans at everything within one to two years, he says, but the labor market is slow to react. His concern: the exponential pace of development will outstrip our ability to adapt.
Nearly four years of war have left Ukraine with an unlikely asset: millions of hours of drone footage and combat data. Now Kyiv plans to share them with allies as leverage. In the age of military AI, raw battlefield intelligence may prove more valuable than any weapons shipment.
