Executive chairman of AMI Labs and professor at NYU
Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is executive chairman of AMI Labs and a professor at NYU whose research spans neural networks, computer vision, and world models.
About Yann LeCun
Yann LeCun is executive chairman of Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs and the Jacob T. Schwartz Professor at New York University. His current research interests include machine learning, perception, robotics, and world models that represent how environments behave.
He previously founded and directed Meta's FAIR research organization and served as Meta's chief AI scientist through 2025. His work helped develop convolutional neural networks and their use in visual recognition. He shared the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.
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- EU Says the AI Act Can Stop Rogue AI Agents: What Virkkunen Told Reuters →
After a string of OpenAI and Anthropic agent incidents, the EU says its AI Act is already equipped to handle rogue systems. Here is what Henna Virkkunen actually said, what the Commission has done so far, and what remains unproven.
- Rosetta Stone Paper: Align DINOv2 and Qwen3 Without Image-Caption Pairs →
Shared Geometry As A Rosetta Stone shows that a vision encoder like DINOv2 and a language model like Qwen3 can be linked by one orthogonal map, with no image-caption pairs at all. Here is the method, the reported results, and what it does and does not mean for builders.
- OpenAI Safety Lead David Robinson Quits: "Its Culture Is Broken" →
David Robinson led the writing of the safety reports that shipped with OpenAI releases. On October 3, 2026 he resigned in The Atlantic, arguing the problem is culture, not rules. Here is what he claimed, how OpenAI and Hacker News responded, and what it means for anyone building on agents.
- Vercel Confirms a KVM Zero-Day VM Escape: What It Means for Agent Sandboxes →
On October 3, 2026, researcher Paulos Yibelo announced a full guest-to-host VM escape in KVM, and Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch confirmed it through the Vercel Sandbox bounty program. There is no CVE, patch, or write-up yet. Here is what is verified, what is guesswork, and how to design agent sandboxes that survive a hypervisor bug.
- What Is the Turing Test? The Imitation Game, Explained for the AI Era →