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Corruption, part N+1 Someone quietly placed a massive $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 a.m. ET this morning. Just 70 minutes later, Axios reported the U.S. and Iran were close to a 14 point deal t

Every time Republicans take power, they increase the deficit. Every time Democrats take power, they reduce it. CBO says the Senate Republicans' new reconciliation bill will increase deficits by $71.7B

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Over 10 million Americans will lose health care coverage because of Republican cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare subsidies. That amounts to half of the total number of people who gained health insurance

President Biden made health insurance more affordable for millions of Americans in the ACA marketplace. The Republicans’ actions increased prices by 58% on average—amounting to huge extra costs for th

Red states have disproportionately benefited from the health insurance subsidies expanded by Biden and then cut by Trump. Georgia is a clear example: in just one year, marketplace enrollment has dropp

Yann LeCun compares RFK Jr. to Trofim Lysenko, the Soviet biologist whose pseudoscientific theories caused agricultural disaster, suggesting RFK Jr. promotes similarly discredited or anti-scientific i

This week made something clear: you shouldn't take what most tech ceos are saying publicly seriously! From “Anthropic is Misanthropic” to “Claude is good for humanity and was impressed.” Most ironic o

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The brain does not predict every upcoming word during language comprehension with maximum precision, contradicting the assumption that next-word prediction serves as the central computational objectiv

Yann LeCun has been announced as the 2026 commencement speaker for NYU Tandon School of Engineering. LeCun, a prominent computer scientist and AI researcher, will deliver the keynote address at the gr

This could have covered the entire budget of the National Science Foundation for 10 years. Instead, Trump wants to reduce the NSF budget by 50% (5B a year instead of 9B), which would decimate the Amer

VANISHING CULTURE is out now! From Internet Archive, this book looks at what is disappearing online. 🌐 Websites vanish 🗞️ News archives go offline 🎮 Games become unplayable 📼 Personal media breaks & b

AI will create more jobs than any other technology in history. The doomers' fundamental error isn't just the lump of labor fallacy. It's deeper than that. They assume a finite problem space. This is t

The number of jobs in the future is endless because the problems to solve are endless. Jobs multiply as we get more complex. No AI or human can solve all problems and all the work to do in the Univers

2022: “Stop overreacting, they won’t overturn Roe.” They did. 2023: “Stop overreacting, they won’t let women die rather than get an abortion.” They did. 2024: “Stop overreacting, they won’t arrest wom

'If we are honest — and scientists have to be — we must admit that religion is a jumble of false assertions, with no basis in reality. The very idea of God is a product of the human imagination. It is

Neural networks were declared scientifically dead in 1987. A French PhD student bet his entire career on them anyway ~ and won. 🤯 >Meet Yann LeCun 🇫🇷 >Paris-born. PhD from Sorbonne in 1987. >Joined Be

Stanford's latest seminar is a deep dive into the evolution of world modeling in AI. Focuses on the shift in the world model from traditional reconstruction methods toward latent space prediction. Cov

This is insane Three Trump judicial nominees refused, over and over, to say Joe Biden won the 2020 election. They either believe Trump’s lie that the election was stolen, or they’re too afraid of him

All the Doomers and hawks are lining up behind this distillation 'attack' farce because they want to see open source banned. It's really as simple as that. They want to take away your right to choose,

Bush destroyed Clinton's economy. Obama fixed Bush's mess. Trump destroyed Obama's economy. Biden fixed Trump’s mess and now Trump has destroyed what Biden fixed. The biggest lie that Republicans have

I think the expression is “pulling the ladder”! All labs trained their models by distilling (at the very least distilling the web) which allowed them to become the fastest growing businesses in the hi

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got r

These folks are trying to ban open source. They're looking to take away your freedom to choose. They're also looking to take away the rights of businesses like Cursor to fine tune and make their produ

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Trump's war on science. The Trump administration has downsized US science by historic margins — but it's not just via grant or workforce cuts. Our new @nature analysis reveals the government has cut m

'A decade ago, AI was supposed to replace radiologists. Today, radiologists make more than $500,000 per year, and their employment continues to grow, see chart below. Reading scans is a task, not a jo

- Comey indicted for tweeting a number. - Trump FCC threatens ABC's broadcast license. - Trump defacing more govt institutions with his name and picture. - Trump's kids cashing in on huge govt contrac

Science is how we’ve cured diseases and how we just sent four humans around the Moon. It’s a big reason why we’re the greatest country on Earth, but firing the National Science Board shows just how mu

Trump’s FCC chair, Brendan Carr, says he plans to punish and potentially revoke broadcast licenses for TV networks critical of the Trump administration: “I’d be surprised if we don’t go down the path

@jon_barron 'World models' has a technical meaning - the transition model/dynamics model from Bellman/Kalman in the context of MDPs/ state space approach to control theory ~ 1960. I gave a talk on thi

The EPA's independent science arm did groundbreaking research to save lives. It studied fertility, asthma, wildfires, drinking water, climate change etc etc In just one year, it has been almost comple

What a week at @iclr_conf in Rio 🇧🇷 ! As my first conference, it would have been hard to ask for a better experience 😍. I had the chance to present two papers: - EB-JEPA https://github.com/facebookres

AI has had one safest technology roll-outs in history. Read that again, because it's a fact. It's used by billions with a tiny fraction of a percent of actual problems. And yet it's seen as dangerous

By canning the National Science Board with no stated justification, the administration continues the destruction of this country's scientific and technological base built up over 80 years. Supporters

Yann LeCun shared a compilation demonstrating that Donald Trump has frequently labeled his political opponents as fascists, countering claims that calling Trump a fascist incites violence by showing s

The 2020 US election was audited on a massive scale. Researchers examined audit results from 856 jurisdictions across 27 states, covering over 71 million votes. The audits found the net error rate in

Existential risk mongers are a small, very vocal cult with a lot of very clever online astroturfing skills. Politicians never waste a good fake crisis, which is why they're perfect for Bernie to try t

Never let critical thinking get in the way of extremist fantasy stories. If you're on either side of this slider, congratulations, you may be a child in an adult costume body! Black and white thinking

Republicans have been making this argument my entire life. We had 8 years of Clinton, 8 years of Obama, 4 years of Biden— never became a socialism. But you know what we got? More jobs, lower unemploym

Shooting oneself in the foot? Nope. Shooting oneself in the prefrontal cortex. U.S. President Donald Trump has fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees the National S

👉 Sur l’#IA, mon optimisme est prudent. Je reconnais les dangers de cette technologie, mais si on en freinait le développement en Europe, au nom du principe de précaution, son essor aurait lieu ailleu

Trump has spent the better years of his second term treating allied governments like freeloading tenants who should be grateful he hasn’t changed the locks. The result, predictably, is that they’ve st

Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950. The National Science Board is the independent