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🦔A Nikkei investigation found that Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle have 1.65 trillion in debt that doesn't appear on their balance sheets, more than the 1.35 trillion they officially rep
1) If you haven't read AI as Normal Technology, these annotated slides are probably the easiest way to get a high-level overview. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/talks/icml-2026-annotated-slides
🤖 Un robot français en seulement 9 mois ! Rémi Cadene, ancien de Tesla AI et Hugging Face, explique comment son équipe veut faire des robots un levier pour la logistique, la réindustrialisation et, de
🎯 If Trump were actively trying to destroy American advantages, to create chaos and strife that he and his ilk could exploit, what would he do differently? Typical NYT understatement for what is an ap
It's incredible to me that 9 months ago we didnt have an office, and now we have a fully functional humanoid and an efficient AI! So proud of the team 🤠 Starting with the fundamentals Prototype Versio
NEW: Donald Trump has terminated the remaining members of the independent, federal commission that assists election administration officials nationwide just a few months before the midterm elections “
Today, together with @kyutai_labs, we’re introducing our new Audio-to-MIDI model. It takes a finished recording, identifies the instruments playing, and returns separate MIDI tracks for each — voice,
Typical NYT understatement for what is an apocalyptic destruction of the American innovation ecosystem. I can't understand how the Trump administration is doing this while boasting about American tech
We're releasing MuScriptor, the best open model for multi-instrument transcription to date, created in collaboration with @MireloAI. Give it a recording in any genre: pop, classical, metal, jazz, what
This is an announcement for a technical talk at ICML 2026 scheduled for Thursday at 10:30 AM in Hall A room 3002, focusing on the anatomy of massive activations and attention sinks—likely discussing h
I will present tomorrow our recent work on Crys-JEPA, where we use Joint Embedding Predictive Architectures to learn crystal distributions for materials discovery. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zhong
Yann LeCun argues that the primary risk posed by AI lies in power concentration among a small number of proprietary AI assistant providers, suggesting that decentralization or open-source alternatives
Open source powers everything in America. We must fight any and all attempts to restrict it in the age of AI. We must never surrender to the short-sighted safetyists and hawks. Open source is the enti
Trump’s cuts in funding for higher education is reducing the number of PhD candidates and “raising fears that the nation’s capacity to produce new science could be diminished.” https://trib.al/TzuHUm6
We stand at a critical crossroads in the debate over AI governance in the United States, and it feels like we are inching closer to a very serious battle over whether or not open source models will ev
For the past year, MAGA has been screaming “Europoor” like a cheap car alarm going off at three in the morning. Nobody asked for it, nobody knows how to turn it off. But then along comes this chart. A
The emoluments clause is supposed to prevent the President from receiving foreign bribes. That hasn’t stopped Trump’s family from receiving about $13 billion in “investments” from foreign governments,
Under Trump, pardons have a price, and criminals know it. Trump has erased a growing number of criminal convictions – and $1.5 billion in penalties and restitution owed to taxpayers and victims – for
We're releasing ZML/LLMD, our homegrown LLM server built on top of our homegrown high performance heterogeneous inference stack. It ships with 5 architectures out of the box: NVIDIA, AMD, Metal, Intel
1,200 former DOJ employees have just sent a letter urging Senators not to confirm Todd Blanche as AG: 'In the coming weeks, many will rightly underscore the corruption and abuses that have defined the
Researchers at UMA Robots have developed a single neural network that enables end-to-end robotic control, operating continuously for extended periods with high precision while adapting in real-time to
At UMA, we build and own the full stack, from hardware to software. This allows us to bake safety in at all levels, rather than bolt it on as an afterthought. Because trust is everything when robots s
DOGE shut down USAID, established by JFK in 1961. Before being shut down, the US Agency for International Development (USAID) was the largest funding agency for humanitarian and development aid worldw
Excellent investigation of the mechanics of language models. 🫢A notable blindspot, however: several teams have actually been **directly** comparing the working of LLMs to those of the human brain 🧠 fo
Greenland isn’t surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships. There hasn’t been $19.2 trillion invested in the US under Trump. Trump hasn’t settled eight wars. Biden’s military aid to Ukraine wasn’t worth
Incredible WSJ reporting on how European leaders deal with Trump -European leaders workshopped tweets to send Trump, debating which words to capitalize. They had to sound extra stupid to win over his
@__JohnNguyen__ and I are presenting the Beyond Language Modeling paper as an ICML spotlight in 30 minutes at the 10:30 AM poster session! I’ll also be at the AMI Mixer on Thursday and hanging around
More than half of Americans can’t afford food or gas. Meanwhile, the top .1% increased their wealth by $2.59T during Trump’s second term. Republicans ran on affordability, and then immediately passed
One year since USAID was dismantled, and the bill is coming due. On @TheLastWord last night, Lawrence O'Donnell and I talked about the human cost — and Musk's lie that no one has died. USAID staffers
Yann LeCun shared details about an early AI prototype project developed over 9 months by a small team in Paris at UMA_Rob, covering artificial intelligence, software, and hardware components. The proj
Super-fun in-depth discussion 🙏🙏🙏 World models, JEPA vs generative architectures, anti-collapse methods for JEPA SSL including contrastive, distillation, and information maximization methods, an expla
The U.S. trade deficit rose by over 40% last month, reaching $77.6 billion. That's the largest since March 2025 and higher than the monthly average during Biden's term. Trump's tariffs have failed to
Unveiling our Northstar design @UMA_Robots A body that can navigate our space Hands that can use our tools Approachable, competent, calm A robot you feel at ease having at your workplace and home Medi
We sat down with @ylecun for a 1h30 discussion on world models @medjawii and JB Kempf of @videolan/@FFmpeg. It's probably the deepest technical discussion on the subject ever recorded. And we added En
During a Bloomberg interview, Yann LeCun (@ylecun ) explains why LLMs are limited in terms of real-world intelligence during a Bloomberg interview. 'Language is a very approximate, reduced, quantized,
From a few hundred thousand to 100M AI builders in 2028? AI will create tons of jobs if we make it distributed instead of monopolized by a few companies! 'A few years ago, there were a few hundred tho
McGovern neuroscientists have discovered that you don't need language to think logically. People with severe language impairments solve complex reasoning puzzles perfectly and brain scans show languag
Yann LeCun announced plans to attend ICML (International Conference on Machine Learning) in Seoul and invited attendees to an AMI × SBVA mixer event scheduled for Thursday evening, expressing enthusia
Since President Trump's re-election, the vast majority of job growth has been in health care and education. Despite promises to re-shore industry through tariffs, over 100,000 manufacturing jobs have
The data are in: Populism makes countries worse off. '... a country being ruled by a populist is associated with a 10% lower GDP after 15 years ... Populists .. were four times more likely than other
What if a routine breast cancer H&E slide could help answer a hard question: how likely is this cancer to come back? Our @NatureComms paper introduces a multimodal AI test for recurrence risk across i
@ZhugeEX The *median* wealth of a French is almost *twice* the median wealth of an American. So much for the 'Europoor' meme. The *average* American wealth is high because a tiny number of Americans a
Check out all the amazing work from our @SimonsFdn Collaboration on the Physics of Learning and Neural Computation (https://www.physicsoflearning.org/) presented at the main meeting of @ICMLconf #ICML
For anyone who is worried about the communist threat facing America, here is some important information: No one was eating the dogs or the cats. No country emptied it's asylums or prisons into America
Groq Founder @JonathanRoss321 explains why all the West Coast VCs missed on investing in Groq: “Typical West Coast VCs are more like lemmings. Ttypical East Coast VCs all think that they're smarter th
President Trump relaxes gun laws, allowing some people with mental illness who had been barred from possessing firearms to have them. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/05/us/politics/trump-gun-rights-la
Surprising (not really) stat from the new UBS Global Wealth Report 2026. The US ranks #2 when you look at average (mean) wealth per adult, but drops to #28 when you look at the median. https://www.ubs
The funding headline is only half the story. Yann LeCun told BBC that large language models are not a path to human-like or animal-like intelligence... #AI https://stechtimes.com/en/article/yann-lecun
Trump not only seeks vengeance against his enemies but also fleeces his own supporters. Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/
Warm take: Your world model should never stop learning Introducing AdaJEPA, an adaptive WM that plans, acts, and adapts in a closed loop. Every action leads to a new observation, and every transition
Come and chat with us in ICML 🥳 Excited to present Temporal Straightening for Latent Planning in the Tuesday morning session #1509. Let’s talk about world models, JEPA and representation learning. Age
Yann LeCun posted a critical response to Elon Musk and Devon Eriksen regarding their positions on democratic principles, suggesting their actions contradict democratic values. The post appears to be a
Fifty years later the semiquincentennial is tainted by fears that the country is no longer a democracy. But the Supreme Court has slapped down many of the President's pet projects, and an electoral re
How? Instead of closed-source frontier labs running the same training runs in secret and siloes, open science and open-source AI allows them to mutualize spending and compute making them an order of m
On our 250th birthday, celebrating the contribution of immigrants and international collaboration —46% of people with doctoral-level degrees working in US science and engineering fields are foreign-bo
While Trump walked away with a 636 million profit from his crypto venture, nearly 1 million people who bought into it lost a total of 3.81 billion through the end of June. They were probably mostly hi
Yet we still don't have level-5 self-driving cars, and certainly not self-serving cars that can learn to drive in a few hours of practice like any teenager. We don't even have domestic robots that can
Brazenly self-serving: the Trump family’s earnings during his first year in office 'have moved him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey.' https://trib.al/i
Exactly. I've been disseminating a similar message for years. The concentration of power in AI and the desire for control is by far the biggest danger of AI. It could lead to a few private companies a
I’ve been asked many times over why I keep posting when so many of the replies I receive are personal attacks. The answer is actually really simple. As scientists, we cannot concede to silence. If we