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Turing Award-winning computer scientist and pioneer of convolutional neural networks; former chief AI scientist at Meta, known for advocating open AI research.
More than 400 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio, signed a letter asking AI labs to airgap cyber-capable models by default. Neither report says any lab has agreed, so the proposed standards body and failure log are for now a yardstick for deployers.
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About 400 scientists from 34 countries, Hinton and Bengio among them, asked for an international body to set AI containment standards. Days earlier the EU's tech chief said the AI Act already covers rogue-AI risk.
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PhAI Labs' JEPA-Anything splits a world model's prediction into several modules, cutting error 35% against a standard JEPA on a Pong task. Its reported comparisons use that one baseline, and its liver cancer pick has only lab and mouse data.
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Anthropic's CEO says open weights only shift concentration toward whoever holds the most compute and chips. That moves the build-versus-buy question from the checkpoint to the serving contract.
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He refused a reported $1.5 billion package in August 2025, joined two months later for less, and held his exit until Muse shipped. Meta has promised a confidential version of that product before the end of 2026.
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Cellular Intelligence has added Bob Langer and Yann LeCun to its scientific advisory board. The $62m to $70m it has raised now has to take STEM-PD, the cell therapy Novo Nordisk dropped, through Phase 2.
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AMI Labs says it is still in a research and building phase and will not discuss product plans or a timeline. World Labs' Marble ships now as a way to build explorable scenes. A roadmap needs more than that.
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The Nvidia chief said at a Salesforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday that safety is an engineering problem, while Amodei, Altman, Hassabis and Musk want governments involved and OpenAI drafts standards it calls voluntary.
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Bloomberg says the model would stream worlds at about 20 frames a second with 50 milliseconds of latency. That is one frame of headroom, and every minute a Pico user spends inside one is compute somebody has to pay for.
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The startup says its neural-operator model took 5 trillion data units in one prompt. It has published no test protocol, no benchmark and no customers, and a rival raised $12 billion.
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Non-users cannot opt out of being recorded, and that is the category of behavioural data a contextual agent most needs. Anyone building on Meta's stack inherits the provenance.
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A new paper says Sora, Genie 3, JEPA and Marble carry no mental state at all. Its own benchmark, 420 of 448 scenes without motion, tests language models instead.
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Techfundingnews frames the world model race as a $16B bet. The named rounds account for $2.31B of it, and the case against the architecture rests on a generalisation failure capital cannot fix.
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Anthropic's chief executive conceded on X that AI companies have not met their big promises, weeks before a listing backers expect to value the firm at $2trn. Procurement should price the gap.
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