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@__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

Trump’s huge windfall has few known global precedents. His earnings in office are at a level once unimaginable for any leader of a liberal democracy, particularly a sitting American president. https:/

Researchers used machine learning trained on transcriptomic data from 10,000 tumor samples across 33 cancer types to develop AI models that predict and improve outcomes in cancer immunotherapy. The ap

BREAKING: CNN just aired a devastating montage of all the times that Donald Trump accused others of using their public office to make money. Donald Trump's net worth has almost tripled since he took o

China added over 543 Gigawatts to their grid last year. 434 GW was renewables because they are faster to build. The U.S. added a paltry 53 GW. We are losing the “AI race” to China because these idiots

Yann LeCun discussed the Gigascale thesis, hard technology development, and challenged the narrative that the US lacks manufacturing and building capabilities in a conversation with @yayitsrob on Shif

Oops, SIGReg did it again! Large scale (CC12M->Datacomp-L) vision-language JEPA pretraining beats CLIP and SigLIP objectives! Thanks to SIGReg, our LeVLJEPA has no collapse, no EMA, no stop-gradient,

Since Trump took office: * Elon net worth is 980B (+500B) * Donald Trump's family ~10B, up about 7B * Top 15 billionaires: up 33% And USAID was cut 6 billion, resulting in hundreds of thousands of or

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about 'feeding it into the woodchipper.' One year ag

The last paragraph of @AnneApplebaum’s piece on what patriotism means ahead of our 250th Independence Day. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/america-250-july-4-idea/687749/?utm_source=twitter&

The Narrative Strategy of Sam Altman on CNBC today… Some notes from discussing this ‘we will give America 5% of OpenAI’ idea… 1 - Strategically it makes sense for OpenAI to Invite This Matrix-multipli

We don’t take stakes in healthy companies. Proposing that as last ditch regulatory capture attempt in commodity market is 😢 … or at best un-American disingenuous WWE politics, not pro-market, not pro-

🔥 We introduce LeVLJEPA: the first fully non-contrastive end-to-end vision-language pretraining method competitive with CLIP & SigLIP 💪🏼 👀 No negatives. No temperature. No momentum encoder. No teacher