2+ hour, 10+ min ago   (405+ words) All morning people have been asking me about a blog post by Matt Shumer that has gone viral, with nearly 50 million views on X. It's a masterpiece of hype, written in the style of the old direct marketing campaigns, with bold-faced…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (243+ words) As you may know, I have been harping on reasoning as a core challenge for deep learning for well over a decade, at least since a December 2012 New Yorker article: By now many, many others have pounded on the same…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (206+ words) Honored to be a part of this, along with Yuval Noah Hariri, Melanie Mitchell, Helen Toner, Carl Benedikt Frey, Ajeya Cotra and co-founders of Perplexity and Cohere: Naturally, I help anchor the skeptics corner (though I am hardly alone): And…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (272+ words) In further news vindicating neurosymbolic AI and world models, after Demis Hassabis's strong statements yesterday, Yann LeCun, historically hostile to symbolic approaches, has just joined what sounds like a neurosymbolic AI company focused on reasoning and world models, apparently built…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (123+ words) Per the Times of India: For more about world models and how some of us have thought about them over the years, see this earlier essay: And see also my 2020, Next Decade in AI for an older but still very…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (620+ words) There is a character in an Ursula K. Le Guin novel The Lathe of Heaven whose bad dreams come true. I am starting to feel like that character. In this newsletter years ago, I warned about the enshittification of the web,…...

4+ week, 8+ hour ago   (335+ words) Two Boston University law professors, Woodrow Hartzog and Jessica Silbey, just posted preprint of a new paper that blew me away, called How AI Destroys Institutions. I urge you to read'and reflect'on it, ASAP. I hope that before the paper…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (478+ words) Five years ago, hardly anyone had heard of Sam Altman. But by the time I ran into him, in May of 2023 in Washington, at the US Senate, he had become a superstar. But in the end, charm is not enough....

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (97+ words) It's funny how close this competition seemed just a couple weeks ago: That was then, 2025. For 2026, the guy on the left is taking an early lead that's will be hard to beat. There's a lot more that could be said…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago   (618+ words) A long tweet below sums up some of the back story, mostly taking LeCun's side. The funny thing is that " with a huge technical asterisk discussed below " I, a longstanding critic of LeCun, am basically on LeCun's side in the…...