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Anyone remember how I said in January 2025 that AI was going to be stumble and be dubbed “too big to fail”, along with cries for bailouts? If that call was correct – which increasingly seems likely, a

Gary Marcus discusses the Pope's understanding and perspective on artificial intelligence, examining statements or positions the religious leader has taken regarding AI technology and its implications

I am absolutely with @GaryMarcus and the Pope on this. (Not something you expect to say everyday). We are not creating beings. Systems don’t exp. grief nor hope, hold a value construct, or the ability

Listen, I’m a big “the index is the index” guy, but they are openly looting the coffers. This is 100% fraud. Rule changes for the SpaceX SPCX IPO: Index providers waived the profitability requirement

@ParValue26 @Hedgeye Let’s be clear what this actually is: the administration and the world’s richest man working together to screw over ordinary investors to goose returns on the IPO for the wealthie

serious accusation. does this fit with people’s experience? Is Anthropic altering model performance to force costly upgrades? Chapter Co-Founder and CEO @CobiBGantz outlines a shift his team recently

SpaceX being rammed into indices with no profit requirements, seasoning, and generally looser constraints is economic terrorism. Index trackers will eat the loss when reality catches up and retail inv

Gary Marcus argues that consumer backlash against AI-generated content will be increasingly visceral, particularly in creative fields like fiction, leading to growing demand for 'human-authored' certi

Three companies are about to IPO at a higher combined value than all 2,600 dot-com IPOs from 1995 to 2000 combined. – SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic (2026): ~3.75 trillion – Every dot-com IPO from 1995–200

Weird how the Pope seems to understand AI better than @geoffreyhinton, but I am 100% with the Pope on this. We are NOT creating beings. The Pope is right. We are creating interactive fiction that is t

weird the way this tweet was getting a ton of traffic and then just stopped. 🤷‍♂️ I honestly think Elon’s best days are behind him: BYD is crushing Tesla in EVs. Waymo is crushing Tesla in AVs. Anthro

AI safety can't happen behind closed doors! Super cool to see that the @AISecurityInst is releasing its evals, datasets, and models in the open on @huggingface, so researchers everywhere can scrutiniz

This post likely critiques the irony of someone insulting another person's intelligence while making a basic grammatical error (omitting an apostrophe in 'don't'). Gary Marcus, a cognitive scientist a

genius reply, full of reasoned intellectual argument, from the kind of retail investor who is probably going to get burned on the SpaceX IPO. Going to MIT and NYU may have meant something in the past,

Gary Marcus discusses his moderation approach on social media, noting that he blocks Tesla supporters primarily when they resort to insults rather than substantive arguments, and observes that this oc

I honestly think Elon’s best days are behind him: BYD is crushing Tesla in EVs. Waymo is crushing Tesla in AVs. Anthropic, Openai, and Google are crushing Xai on AI. The SpaceX S-1 is so ridiculous th

“I'm more concerned about the lack of intellectual diversity within the frontier AI commentariat/research world. This improved a lot over the last two years, but we're still far from a healthy ecosyst

is having a four month lead a sustainable multitrillion dollar business model? We took another look at the capability gap between open-weight and proprietary models. Since the start of the year, open-

it is the single most clever move Elon ever pulled off Rule changes for the SpaceX SPCX IPO: Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5. This f

More of my thoughts on the topic in @Corriere: https://www.corriere.it/esteri/26_maggio_29/yoshua-bengio-ai-pope-6aa95de2-33f7-4f73-8905-34b1abedbxlk.shtml “Like nuclear energy, AI must be at the serv

Gary Marcus expresses frustration about an influx of Elon Musk supporters on his social media feed who conflate personal insults with substantive counterarguments. The post appears to critique a lack

so much for multitrillion dollar candy companies Note to all staff: Turns out that super tasty AI candy we've been putting out in large bowls isn't free and it isn't necessarily leading to better prod

this won’t end well. it will end with a bailout. Cash flow no longer covers the AI capex bill, so hyperscalers are funding it with record debt: Hyperscaler bond issuance has soared to $150 billion YTD

what a time to be alive wow, Opus 4.8 is very... argument-happy? it picked a fight with me about my usage of the word 'ontology', and when we eventually got back on the same page philosophically, told

Where is the power/value of money physically located? It's clearly not in the actual physical bills. Why are we more scared of an elderly mafia boss than their much more physically dangerous underling

Why LLMs rarely payoff—and what I have been saying literally for 7 years—confirmed yet again: LLMs can’t handle the truth. (Nor apparently can my critics, who keep saying I am “always wrong”, when I h

A 25B fund just refused SpaceX at any price. It says the company can't be worth more than 1T, half the $1.8T IPO target, and Musk's 85% control makes it impossible to fix from inside. https://thenextw

arXiv:2605.29975v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a fully convolutional denoising autoencoder (FC-DAE) for denoising two-time intensity-intensity correlation functions (C_2) in X-ray photon c

arXiv:2605.29673v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reconstruction-based inference assigns a class by comparing class-wise reconstruction residuals; Sparse Representation Classification (SRC) is a canon

arXiv:2605.30313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Simulation-based RL for contemporary robot control is increasingly organized around GPU-resident simulation: physics, rollout collection, and learning a

arXiv:2605.28824v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Constructing artificial lexicons that are pronounceable, typologically plausible, and semantically structured remains an open challenge in computational

arXiv:2605.30070v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Moving beyond simple scalar rewards toward richer world feedback is a natural path to more scalable RL post-training. On-policy self-distillation (OPS

arXiv:2512.11944v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Motion planning for autonomous driving (AD) faces a critical trade-off. While traditional rule-based pipelines offer verifiable safety and int

arXiv:2605.29340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this paper, we discuss question-answer dataset for LLM safety evaluation, with a focus on illegal activities. Specifically, on the basis of manual an

arXiv:2605.29791v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Large Language Models (LLMs) can convincingly simulate personas in explicit self-reports, they often deviate in implicit behavioral decisions, rev

arXiv:2605.29458v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurately simulating the decisions of a specific individual remains challenging for large language models (LLMs), partly because persona information

arXiv:2603.01006v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: REPresentation Alignment (REPA) improves the training of generative flow models by aligning intermediate hidden states with pretrained teacher

arXiv:2605.29910v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Consensus protocols form the backbone of distributed systems and blockchains, where implementation bugs can cause data corruption and financial losses

arXiv:2605.28914v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tool-using language agents turn model decisions into external side effects: they read files, run scripts, call APIs, send messages, and invoke Model C

arXiv:2605.29434v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing sentence-level watermarking methods enhance robustness to paraphrasing by anchoring watermarks in sentence semantics. However, their prefix-b

arXiv:2605.29139v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Conformal RAG (FC-RAG) provides distribution-free coverage for a bandwidth-limited swarm of weak language models, but only at a fixed horizo

arXiv:2605.30031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Audio Language Models (LALMs) expand jailbreak risks from token-level prompting to the full speech perception-to-reasoning pipeline, where unsaf

arXiv:2605.29202v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in text-to-music generation enable high-fidelity synthesis of structured musical audio, raising growing concerns about data provenance,

arXiv:2605.30208v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI-assisted coding tools have altered software production. At Meta, significant lines of code per human-landed diff grew by 105.9% year over year and

arXiv:2605.28994v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI tools to support real world decision making must be able to build simulation models that inform their recommendations and render them interpretable.

arXiv:2605.28849v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Gradient temporal-difference methods provide stable off-policy prediction with linear function approximation, but their practical performance is strongl