IceCube, the largest neutrino detector with 1 km3 instrumented Antarctic glacial ice volume, is currently the largest high-energy neutrino detector in the world. It has been operating for over 10 years in its full configuration, and is continuing to take data and refine the data pipeline. This talk gives an brief overview of recent physics results, and then shifts more to technical aspects and discusses the status, prospects and challenges of the ongoing deep-learning efforts in the collaboration.