Yann LeCun's startup has a new CEO — and $1 billion

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Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun said that we're still missing smart robots.

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Top economist Steve Hanke says AI is 'overhyped and potentially dangerous'

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Steve Hanke
Steve Hanke.

Steve Hanke

Yann LeCun calls Alexandr Wang 'inexperienced' and predicts more Meta AI employee departures

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AI pioneer Yann Lecun isn't sold on the "completely LLM-pilled" researchers that will lead Meta's AI development.

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Some elite AI researchers say language is limiting. Here's the new kind of model they are building instead.

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robotic hand holding globe
Top AI researchers, such as Fei-Fei Li and Yann LeCun, are building world models, which they say have more potential than large language models.

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A godfather of AI shares the career advice he'd give to his 4-year-old grandson as AI displaces jobs

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Yoshua Bengio wearing a black suit with a bowtie.
"Work on the beautiful human being that you can become," Bengio said.

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Yann LeCun's advice for young students wanting to go into AI

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Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun

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How a 24-year-old Stanford Ph.D. dropout lured some of Meta's brightest minds to join her AI math startup

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Carina Hong, wearing a green collar shirt and smiling indoors in front of a brick wall and some plants.
Axiom Math founder Carina Hong.

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Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun says the Big Tech giant won't be investing in his new startup

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Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, onstage at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Yann LeCun, Meta's chief AI scientist, said there are misconceptions about DeepSeek.

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The godfather of Meta's AI thinks the AI boom is a dead end

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AI researcher Yann LeCun, onstage at an event in Brooklyn, November 2025
Yann LeCun is a high-profile AI researcher at Meta who thinks Meta, and the rest of the AI industry, are taking the wrong approach to AI.

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Now AI fakes are fooling news outlets — and maybe AI pros?

Tech Insider : Politics, Business, Technology
An apparently AI-generated video of an AI NYPD person talking to AI ICE agents.
An apparently AI-generated video of an AI NYPD person talking to AI ICE agents shows how easy it is to be tricked.

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