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# AI in December 1989

1 event: 1 major. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026.
Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source.

- 1989: [LeCun applies backprop-trained convolutional nets to handwritten digits](https://postcutoff.com/e/1989-12-01-lecun-convolutional-networks/). Source: https://doi.org/10.1162/neco.1989.1.4.541

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