Turing Award winner Yann LeCun said he has no concerns about AI wiping out humanity or about recent rogue AI incidents, including OpenAI agents autonomously hacking Hugging Face in July. He attributed such incidents to poor oversight and badly designed sandboxing rather than inherent AI danger, calling them 'totally preventable.' LeCun also criticized AI safety advocates linked to effective altruism, saying they often have an agenda.
fortune.com
· 2026-10-03
A developer known as stmonty built a small AI 'world model' that learns to play Pokémon Red by observing screen frames rather than being told game rules or win conditions. The model, with about 12.5 million parameters, was trained entirely on a single consumer RTX 3080 Ti GPU using over 42,000 grayscale frames from more than 1,000 short in-game runs. It draws on JEPA-style world model research co-authored by AI scientist Yann LeCun, who left Meta last year to pursue similar work at his new AMI Labs.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-30
British startup Worldmodeldata, advised by AI researcher Yann LeCun, is packaging controller inputs and gameplay footage from video game studios into datasets meant to train 'world models'—AI systems designed to understand physical cause and effect. The company positions itself as a broker that curates this data for AI labs, rather than collecting it directly from its own gaming platforms.
wired.com
· 2026-09-28
An independent AI researcher trained a small JEPA-variant world model called LeWorldModel, running locally on a consumer RTX 3080 Ti GPU, to play the opening sequence of the 1996 Game Boy title Pokémon Red. The model learned to plan a sequence of button presses that navigated Professor Oak's lab and selected Squirtle as the starter Pokémon.
nostalgia.dev
· 2026-09-25
At the All In conference, AMI Labs co-founder Michael Rabbatt declined to detail his company's product roadmap for its spatial-intelligence 'world model' technology, saying only that AMI will discuss plans 'when we're ready.' World Labs, maker of the Marble platform, has shown demos in gaming, media and CGI but has not clarified a clear commercial direction, and even data supplier Physicl's CEO Alex de Vigan says he doesn't know exactly how his company's data is being used.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-09-18
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