What is the location of AC for typical modern airplanes?
AC of the whole aircraft must be located behind CG, so that AC was naturally statically stable [in pitch, or more accurately, by angle of attack]. This pretty much follows from the definition of AC, and there is no way around it.

However, this is not the whole story.

First, it is possible to design an airplane with 'positive cambered tailplane'. As such, there is no requirement that the tailplane produced negative lift (for a classic design); there is merely a requirement that the tailplane had a lower lift coefficient than the wing.

Second, a statically unstable airframe can still be made stable by using computer control. From the point of view of the pilot, F-16 or Su-27 are stable, even though their airframes are not. In some marginal cases, when the aircraft has a lot of pitch damping, even average pilot can cope with mild instability.

As for airliners, all of them have AC behind CG, but I don't have specific numbers.