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I had to look this up -
50% of "exceptionalโ creatives visa applications, usually reserved for athletes or education, are for Only Fans Models and "content creators"
And they're being approved.
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50% of "exceptionalโ creatives visa applications, usually reserved for athletes or education, are for Only Fans Models and "content creators"
And they're being approved.
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Okay so I need to talk about whatโs happening with Yann LeCun because this is genuinely one of the wildest exits Iโve ever seen in tech.
For those who donโt knowโLeCun is one of the โgodfathers of AI.โ Not a marketing title. The man literally won the Turing Award (basically the Nobel Prize of computer science) for helping invent deep learning. Heโs been at Meta for over a decade as their Chief AI Scientist. An absolute legend.
So hereโs what happened.
Zuckerberg got frustrated. Llama wasnโt moving fast enough. The AI race was heating up and Meta felt like it was falling behind. So what does Zuck do? He drops $14 BILLION on Scale AI and hires its 28-year-old co-founder, Alexandr Wang, to run a brand new โSuperintelligence Lab.โ
And thenโand this is the part that still blows my mindโhe makes Wangโฆ LeCunโs boss.
Think about that for a second. A 65-year-old Turing Award winner. Four decades of groundbreaking research. The guy who helped BUILD this entire field. Now reporting to someone whose companyโฆ labels data. (Scale AI is impressive, donโt get me wrong, but they donโt actually build AI models. They annotate training data for other companies.)
LeCun just did an interview with the Financial Times and honestly? He chose violence.
Called Wang โyoungโ and โinexperienced.โ Said he has โno experience with research or how you practice research, how you do it. Or what would be attractive or repulsive to a researcher.โ
And then dropped this absolute gem: โYou donโt tell a researcher what to do. You certainly donโt tell a researcher like me what to do.โ
I mean. The man said what he said.
But waitโit gets better. Or worse, depending on how you look at it.
LeCun straight up confirmed that Metaโs team โfudgedโ the Llama 4 benchmark results. Like, actually manipulated them. Used different models on different tests to make the numbers look better. Remember when everyone was suspicious about those benchmarks back in April? Yeah. Turns out they were right to be.
Apparently Zuckerberg was furious when this came out internally. LeCun says he โlost confidence in everyone who was involvedโ and basically sidelined the entire GenAI team.
And hereโs the thing that really gets meโLeCun has been saying for YEARS that LLMs are a โdead end.โ That you canโt get to real intelligence just by predicting the next word. That we need โworld modelsโ that actually understand physical reality, not just language patterns.
Everyone at Meta wanted him to stop saying this publicly. Bad for the narrative, you know? But LeCun refused.
His exact words: โIโm not gonna change my mind because some dude thinks Iโm wrong. Iโm not wrong.โ
Thatโs not arrogance. Thatโs a scientist whoโs seen enough hype cycles to know when something doesnโt add up.
So now heโs out. Launching his own company called AMI LabsโAdvanced Machine Intelligence. Theyโre targeting a $3 billion valuation. Building those world models heโs been talking about. Says heโll have a โbaby versionโ ready within a year.
Oh, and apparently French President Macron personally texted him after the news dropped. LeCun wonโt say what the message said but likeโฆ the man is getting DMs from heads of state now.
I donโt know if LeCun is right about everything. Maybe LLMs will surprise us. Maybe Meta will figure it out. But when one of the three people who literally invented modern AI walks out the door saying your entire strategy is fundamentally flawed?
I donโt know man. Iโd at least ask some questions.
The AI wars just got very, very interesting
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For those who donโt knowโLeCun is one of the โgodfathers of AI.โ Not a marketing title. The man literally won the Turing Award (basically the Nobel Prize of computer science) for helping invent deep learning. Heโs been at Meta for over a decade as their Chief AI Scientist. An absolute legend.
So hereโs what happened.
Zuckerberg got frustrated. Llama wasnโt moving fast enough. The AI race was heating up and Meta felt like it was falling behind. So what does Zuck do? He drops $14 BILLION on Scale AI and hires its 28-year-old co-founder, Alexandr Wang, to run a brand new โSuperintelligence Lab.โ
And thenโand this is the part that still blows my mindโhe makes Wangโฆ LeCunโs boss.
Think about that for a second. A 65-year-old Turing Award winner. Four decades of groundbreaking research. The guy who helped BUILD this entire field. Now reporting to someone whose companyโฆ labels data. (Scale AI is impressive, donโt get me wrong, but they donโt actually build AI models. They annotate training data for other companies.)
LeCun just did an interview with the Financial Times and honestly? He chose violence.
Called Wang โyoungโ and โinexperienced.โ Said he has โno experience with research or how you practice research, how you do it. Or what would be attractive or repulsive to a researcher.โ
And then dropped this absolute gem: โYou donโt tell a researcher what to do. You certainly donโt tell a researcher like me what to do.โ
I mean. The man said what he said.
But waitโit gets better. Or worse, depending on how you look at it.
LeCun straight up confirmed that Metaโs team โfudgedโ the Llama 4 benchmark results. Like, actually manipulated them. Used different models on different tests to make the numbers look better. Remember when everyone was suspicious about those benchmarks back in April? Yeah. Turns out they were right to be.
Apparently Zuckerberg was furious when this came out internally. LeCun says he โlost confidence in everyone who was involvedโ and basically sidelined the entire GenAI team.
And hereโs the thing that really gets meโLeCun has been saying for YEARS that LLMs are a โdead end.โ That you canโt get to real intelligence just by predicting the next word. That we need โworld modelsโ that actually understand physical reality, not just language patterns.
Everyone at Meta wanted him to stop saying this publicly. Bad for the narrative, you know? But LeCun refused.
His exact words: โIโm not gonna change my mind because some dude thinks Iโm wrong. Iโm not wrong.โ
Thatโs not arrogance. Thatโs a scientist whoโs seen enough hype cycles to know when something doesnโt add up.
So now heโs out. Launching his own company called AMI LabsโAdvanced Machine Intelligence. Theyโre targeting a $3 billion valuation. Building those world models heโs been talking about. Says heโll have a โbaby versionโ ready within a year.
Oh, and apparently French President Macron personally texted him after the news dropped. LeCun wonโt say what the message said but likeโฆ the man is getting DMs from heads of state now.
I donโt know if LeCun is right about everything. Maybe LLMs will surprise us. Maybe Meta will figure it out. But when one of the three people who literally invented modern AI walks out the door saying your entire strategy is fundamentally flawed?
I donโt know man. Iโd at least ask some questions.
The AI wars just got very, very interesting
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If you had $700K from grandma inheritance would you buy 10 BTC?
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BREAKING: BlackRock and other ETFs have just bought $694 million worth of Bitcoin.
Largest inflow in 3 months!
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Largest inflow in 3 months!
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The US may establish control over Greenland in the coming months, according to Politico.
This could happen ahead of the US midterm elections in November and on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of US independence on July 4, experts and officials interviewed by the publication note. The risk is described as "real and serious".
Washington's methods are likely to differ from the Venezuelan scenario: instead of a military operation, political influence, particularly attempts to bribe local politicians, may be used.
The seizure of Greenland could seriously divide NATO and EU allies even more than the issue of supporting Ukraine. Copenhagen is unlikely to receive the same support as Kiev, experts emphasize.
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This could happen ahead of the US midterm elections in November and on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of US independence on July 4, experts and officials interviewed by the publication note. The risk is described as "real and serious".
Washington's methods are likely to differ from the Venezuelan scenario: instead of a military operation, political influence, particularly attempts to bribe local politicians, may be used.
The seizure of Greenland could seriously divide NATO and EU allies even more than the issue of supporting Ukraine. Copenhagen is unlikely to receive the same support as Kiev, experts emphasize.
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Rumor has it right before Maduro was frozen in carbonite Mamdani said โI love you,โ and Maduro said โI know.โ
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GLOBAL LIQUIDITY IS GROWING AT THE FASTEST PACE SINCE 2020
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An automated trading bot lost nearly $100,000 on Kalshi last night.
At 1:03 AM ET, Trump posted โFake Newsโ on Truth Social.
The bot instantly bought Trump to say โFake Newsโ YES up to 99ยข for thousands of shares.
Sounds like free money - except for one problem:
It bought the wrong weekโs market.
The post counted toward the week of Jan 5โ11, but the bot bonded the week of Dec 29โJan 4.
Traders who noticed rushed to buy NO for pennies.
One user made $38,000 in seconds against the bot.
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At 1:03 AM ET, Trump posted โFake Newsโ on Truth Social.
The bot instantly bought Trump to say โFake Newsโ YES up to 99ยข for thousands of shares.
Sounds like free money - except for one problem:
It bought the wrong weekโs market.
The post counted toward the week of Jan 5โ11, but the bot bonded the week of Dec 29โJan 4.
Traders who noticed rushed to buy NO for pennies.
One user made $38,000 in seconds against the bot.
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Terence Tao's son has transitioned.
This is another kill line: preventing the inheritance of excellent genes from other ethnic groups.
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This is another kill line: preventing the inheritance of excellent genes from other ethnic groups.
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