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I just learned that the 'data centers are using our water!' bullshit started because of a book called Empire of AI by Karen Hao in which she totally fucks up the math when determining how much water t
Trump disparages the European Union as a collective force against the United States, but his threats, tariffs, and arbitrary conduct have done more than anything else in recent years to unify Europe.
America is eating its young. We’re a nation built on the greatness of our research universities, it’s what gave us the Manhattan Project, victory in the Cold War, over HIV/AIDS. Our future depends on
Any arguments against open source and open weights are mendacious and malicious by their very nature. Open source is the foundation of modern society worth 8.8 trillion to the economy and the foundati
EBM are so back! @ylecun has been pointing here for years: AI reasoning needs systems that check structure before they answer. Aleph from @logic_int now leads the major formal reasoning benchmarks – l
Energy-Based Models (EBMs) have demonstrated renewed competitiveness in formal reasoning tasks, with Aleph achieving leading performance on major benchmarks in this domain. This represents a significa
Fun interview with Jacob Effron on the Unsupervised Learning podcast. It’s hard to imagine more of a dream Unsupervised Learning guest than @ylecun. Yann is one of the godfathers of AI, and he has som
If you have this weird gut feeling that the rich pay little tax in the US, your gut is spot on... Source: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/10/06/opinion/income-tax-rate-wealthy.html?action=cli
On the current scale of things the Trump phone is a minor corruption, and only goes to show how incompetent everyone in his family is. If you think that any other president would have done things like
The most revealing thing about this AI leadership paper is that it reads less like a vision for innovation and more like a glossy whitepaper for a 21st century East India Company. Every generation of
There is a case to be made that the future of Mathematics is very bright. In my mind, proofs have always been a tool to achieve a goal. The goal was and still is to understand, and reading/writing pro
Yann LeCun says LLMs are strongest in domains where language itself is the substrate of reasoning, like math and code They can solve problems, prove theorems, and write programs — but they are not cre
Aleph is a fully autonomous AI agent system developed for formal verification that has achieved top performance across major theorem proving benchmarks, including PutnamBench and VeriSo. The system re
APPLEBAUM: Russia's war in Ukraine is sometimes described, including recently by American Vice President, as if it were nothing more than territorial dispute, kind of scuffle over lines on map. But wh
Obama on the Iran nuclear deal today: “We pulled it off without firing a missile. We got 97% of their enriched uranium out. There’s no dispute that it worked. We didn’t have to kill a whole bunch of p
The Art of the Steal: 1. IRS catches Trump cheating on his taxes. 2. Trump sues IRS for catching him cheating on his taxes. 3. DOJ helps Trump get $10 billion from the IRS because they caught him chea
This one blew my mind back in the day! From 'Learning Invariant Features through Topographic Filter Maps' (2009) by @koraykv, @MarcRanzato, @rob_fergus and @ylecun Relics from the prehistoric era of A
Do AI models really learn physics, or just learn what physics looks like? Flatiron's @_helenqu, with @PolymathicAI & CDS researchers including @ylecun, finds that models predicting in latent space rec
Yann LeCun says you cannot build a reliable agentic system without a world model LLMs don't have world models. They can't predict the consequences of their actions before taking them 'they just act, a
Delighted to announce our 3rd world modeling workshop! After NYC and Montreal, we are now headed to Chicago! - August 31st to September 2nd - CfP and details on the website: https://wm-booth.org - @yl
Trump campaigned on bringing down the cost of living 'starting on day one,' and then: started a trade war; deported much of the farm workforce, bombed Iran, allowed healthcare subsidies to expire, cut
Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list: 10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016 10:15 PM - Says Obama worked
News organizations are increasingly blocking the Wayback Machine even as their reporters still depend on it 📰 In PRESERVING THE WEB IN THE AGE OF AI, Mark Graham, Director of the Wayback Machine at th
What will we be like when he is gone? Can we return to mutual respect? Can we believe we are all on the same team as Obama and McCain did? Can we imagine the mutual respect of those two, competitors b
A Washington Post/Ipsos poll found that 71% of respondents said Donald Trump is not honest or trustworthy, and 67% said he does not carefully consider important decisions. The poll data was shared by
@eladgil BS. Attention was born in Montréal PyTorch in NYC. AlphaGo in London AlphaFold in London ESMFold in NYC Llama 1 in Paris. Llama 2 in Paris+NYC+SV DeepSeek in Hangzhou Plus: DINO in Paris JEPA
France is the only European country that turned nuclear generation into a structural competitive advantage. 57 reactors built between the 1970s and 1990s produce 70% of its electricity today. Wholesal
(INTENTIONALLY) LOST IN TRANSLATION: Democrats: We'd like cops to stop killing minorities. Republicans: Dems hate police. Democrats: Women should have the right to choose. Republicans: Dems want to ki
Project Tapestry by @thealliance_ai: gathering some of the best minds in the world in Paris, to help solve the problem of AI Sovereignty for Viet Nam (and Japan and India and Thailand and France and S
Europe does not lack innovation. It lacks scale. European universities produce world-class research, engineers and technology. But too many companies remain trapped inside fragmented national markets
One theorem every ML engineer should know: The Johnson–Lindenstrauss Lemma. It states that high-dimensional data can be projected into a much lower-dimensional space while approximately preserving pai
'Trump’s most lethal policy will almost surely be his 71% cut in humanitarian aid from 2024 to 2025....The aid cuts cost more than 750,000 lives worldwide in their first year' and 'will cost 9.4M live
Yann LeCun closed 1.03B for AMI Labs on March 10. Three days later, this paper dropped from his NYU collaborators. 15M parameters. Single GPU. A few hours of training. LeWorldModel is the first JEPA t
We are less safe as a society by keeping Mythos (or any other smart model) tightly gated so only a few companies get it. Protecting 100 companies is not enough. There are 96 million open source projec
Yann LeCun, a prominent AI researcher and Chief AI Scientist at Meta, is scheduled to deliver a commencement address to the NYU Tandon School of Engineering Class of 2026 on May 18th at the Barclays C
Research from Prof Julian Togelius found that despite AI's well-documented victories in chess, Go, and Atari games, humans still learn unfamiliar video games far faster than any AI model. #NYUTandonMa
Total Jobs Created by Party (1989-2026): Democratic Presidents 50,600,000 Republican Presidents 1,469,000 The biggest scam the GOP has ever pulled off is convincing people that Republicans are good fo
Trump Supporters Complain About Not Receiving Illustrious Gold Trump Phones After Paying 100 Deposits Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters paid 100 deposits for the Illustrious Gold Trump phone,
AI agents often struggle to plan movements because their internal representations of the physical world can be overly tangled. CDS PhD student Ying Wang (@yingwww_) shows how straightening these pathw
Corruption, part N Palm Beach International Airport is now officially renamed to Donald J. Trump International Airport. The airport will be required to purchase official Trump merchandise, directly vi
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
🧠 Introducing NeuralBench: a unified, open-source framework to benchmark NeuroAI models. v1.0: 36 EEG tasks, 94 datasets, task-specific + foundation models. MEG/fMRI ready. MIT-licensed, FAIR's Brain
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
💫Very happy to release NeuralBench, to benchmark Neuro AI models and datasets in the open! 🧵Thread, 💻Code, 📝White Paper below: 🧠 Introducing NeuralBench: a unified, open-source framework to benchmark
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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