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[Jensen Huang @JensenHuang]

For my first post, I’m sharing a letter @NVIDIA signed on why open models matter.

AI will transform every industry, power every company, and be built by every country.

Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty.

The world needs both frontier closed models and frontier open models.

https://t.co/AUKzoQ5Ikb

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Introducing Project Glasswing: an urgent initiative to help secure the world’s most critical software.

It’s powered by our newest frontier model, Claude Mythos Preview, which can find software vulnerabilities better than all but the most skilled humans.
https://t.co/NQ7IfEtYk7

[Peter Agboola @baba_Omoloro]

Anthropic has launched free courses to master AI with certificates for $0.00

https://t.co/hwJvuJHIdo

[Bo Wang @BoWang87]

@ylecun's vision: machines should learn like humans — by building internal world models, not reconstructing every pixel.

We just validated this idea at the largest scale ever attempted in cardiac ultrasound.

Introducing EchoJEPA — the first world model for medical video.

🫀 18M echocardiograms
👥 300K patients
🧠 Learns heart dynamics — not imaging noise

The problem:
Ultrasound is messy. Speckle, shadows, attenuation.
Most pretraining objectives end up modeling the scanner, not the heart.

The idea:
Stop reconstructing pixels.
Predict latent structure instead.

EchoJEPA discards what’s unpredictable and locks onto what matters clinically:
➡️ chamber geometry
➡️ wall motion
➡️ valve dynamics

The results (frozen encoder, no fine-tuning):
• 20% ↓ error in LVEF
• 17% ↓ error in RVSP
• 79% accuracy with 1% labels (vs 42% for baselines w/ 100%)
• 2% degradation under acoustic artifacts (vs 17%)
• Zero-shot pediatric transfer beats all fine-tuned models

Why this works:
When we project embeddings:
❌ prior methods → diffuse, entangled clusters
✅ EchoJEPA → clean anatomical organization
Structure separated from acquisition noise.

📄 Paper: https://t.co/BFDoHrsZ7n
💻 Code: https://t.co/DJNFS5J3oJ

Huge credit to @alifmunim , who pushed JEPA thinking into medical video and led this effort 💥

Guidance from @AIatMeta (@garridoq_, @koustuvsinha)

Co-authors: @adibvafa @TeodoraSzasz @A_Attarpour @riverjiang @JSlivnickMD

Teams: @UHN @awscloud @UofT @UChicago @UCSF @PhilipsHealth

This is representation learning for physiology, not pixels.

[Yoshua Bengio @Yoshua_Bengio]

Today we’re releasing the International AI Safety Report 2026: the most comprehensive evidence-based assessment of AI capabilities, emerging risks, and safety measures to date. 🧵

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[Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl]

Study finds women use gen AI less than men not due to gaps in skill, but bc they view it as harmful to mental health, employment, privacy & the environment. This is not misplaced: AI has significant energy demands and risks of bias and misinformation.
https://t.co/oVAqBbRVIn

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Tinker is cool.

If you're a researcher/developer, tinker dramatically simplifies LLM post-training. You retain 90% of algorithmic creative control (usually related to data, loss function, the algorithm) while tinker handles the hard parts that you usually want to touch much less often (infra, forward/backward of the LLM itself, distributed training), meaning you can do these at well below <<10% of typical complexity involved. Compared to the more common and existing paradigm of "upload your data, we'll post-train your LLM", this is imo a more clever place to "slice up" the complexity of post-training, both delegating the heavy lifting, but also keeping majority of the data/algorithmic creative control.

I think the community still has to discover how and when finetuning makes sense compared to the (often strong) baseline of prompting a giant model. The early indications I've seen is that finetuning isn't so much about "stylizing" an LLM, instead, it's a lot more about narrowing the scope, and especially when you have a lot of training examples. An extreme example of scope narrowing being that of categorical classifiers, e.g.spam filters, content filters, etc. but it should be broader than that. Instead of building a giant few-shot prompts for a big LLM, it might work a lot better (and faster!) to finetune a smaller LLM specifically for your narrow task.

Increasingly, production applications of LLMs are larger pipelines where a bunch of LLMs collaborate in DAGs and flows. Some of these components might work well as prompts. But a lot of it will probably work a lot better as a finetune. Tinker makes the latter trivial and should allow for an easy experimentation of what works best at any stage.

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@elonmusk WiFi and data is very slow in Bhutan, this will be a game changer.

[Greg Brockman @gdb]

Announcing Sora — our model which creates minute-long videos from a text prompt: https://t.co/SZ3OxPnxwz

[RemixAI @getremixai]

Great Q&amp;A interview by @UniteAi with our co-founder &amp; CEO @doughertym https://t.co/2R9BcaDV2g

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Embracing language-specific models in synthetic data generation marks a new era in NLP. #NLP #syntheticdata
https://t.co/lrfpyhBrSp

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Responsible AI: The Crucial Role of AI Watchdogs in Countering Election Disinformation https://t.co/Sab0p9PHXR

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Zephyr: Direct Distillation of LLM Alignment https://t.co/VMRUEAVJAl

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Amazon Announces "Amazon Q," the Company's Generative AI Assistant https://t.co/ms2hMOTgCo

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Salmonn: Towards Generic Hearing Abilities For Large Language Models https://t.co/GkDvGKyXHl

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Overcoming The Push and Pull of AI: Lessons from IT Teams in Making AI Work for You https://t.co/hhg0crofWZ

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Amir Haramaty, CEO &amp; Co-Founder of aiOla - Interview Series https://t.co/6GyBMFN3dZ

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InVideo Review: The Best AI Video Generator in [month] [year]? https://t.co/1mYUpU0ipF

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10 Best AI Fashion Designer Tools https://t.co/JaLKLm2iYU

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