I don't pretend to speak for everyone, but there is no question that, on average, Europeans trust their government (and expect more from it) than Americans.
@ylecun
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Nexar BADAS 2.0: V-JEPA collision prediction system
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BADAS 2.0: new collision prediction system from Nexar.
It's based on V-JEPA 2!!
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EU Privacy Laws Contrast Sharply with American Regulatory Approach
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EU politics is very different from US politics.
Unlike the US, the EU actually has strong privacy protection laws, including for private data (protections that American companies have often complained about), including for protections from intrusion from government as well as -

Library Destruction and Knowledge Preservation in Digital Age
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Destroying a library brings the dark ages. https://t.co/RjBjKVWjms
— Yann LeCun (@ylecun) 16 avril 2026Destroying a library brings the dark ages.
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Republican Anti-Science Policies Drive Academic Brain Drain
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Maybe if the Republican party hadn't consistently been anti-science, anti-intellectual, anti-academic freedom, hadn't imposed ridiculous restrictions on visas for foreign scientists and graduates, and hadn't promoted obscurantist policies academics would not have abandoned it.
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Rethinking Causal Inference and Technology Benefit Assessment Methods
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You should reexamine your causal inference procedure. Also your fact collection methods. Also your evaluation of the benefits of technology.
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Famous Researchers Versus Majority Scientific Consensus
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"two famous researchers" != "the majority of researchers"
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Scientists Hijacked Nvidia CUDA for Deep Learning Research
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Nvidia did not "sell its gaming architecture to a handful of scientists" A handful of scientists such as Patrice Simard et MSR, Andrew Ng, and later Geoff Hinton, hijacked CUDA and implemented convnets and backprop on them. It took several years for Nvidia to realize there was
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Llama-2 Catalyzed Thousands of AI Startups Globally
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Llama-2 single-handedly jump-started the open weight AI industry. Literally thousands of AI startups would not have existed without it.