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🧠🔬 Excited to share our #NeurIPS2025 paper: "Convolution Goes Higher-Order"! We asked: Can shallow networks be as expressive as deep ones? Inspired by biological vision, we introduce higher-order convolutions that capture complex image patterns standard CNNs miss. 🧵👇

My article for FT @sustainableviews.bsky.social on the risk of a complete unravelling of EU climate policy if the Commission doesn't protect the upcoming carbon border levy from US pressure: www.sustainableviews.com/the-us-wants...

A cross-party group of lawmakers will urge the European Parliament to ditch internal use of Microsoft’s ubiquitous software in favor of a European alternative www.politico.eu/article/get-... #digitalsovereignty #digitalesouveränität

NBC poll: 63% now think college degrees not worth the expense, up from 47% in 2017. With AI threatening white-collar work, that skepticism will only rise. Add in Trump’s foreign student hostility and the demographic cliff from birth rates falling, American colleges are facing a brutal road ahead.

Er zijn ook zorgmedewerkers met long COVID. Destijds was er, volkomen terecht, applaus voor hen. Nu is er voor hen geen geld, net als voor al die anderen. Woestmakend.

Grateful to everyone I saw in Philadelphia and Cincinnati and to everyone who protested — and above all to those who organize day after day.

The big AI labs continue to be infuriatingly opaque about the actual figures for their total electricity and water consumption The best report I have seen from them so far is this one from Mistral in July, but it still left unanswered questions for me simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/...

Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...

Anytime you see Microsoft or any US company state the CLOUD Act is not such a big deal for Europe, do ask them if they can reassure us on FISA 702 and EO12333 as well. You will not get an answer. Here EDRI sets it out nicely: edri.org/our-work/pro...

Norwegian researchers: #Russia military victory in #Ukraine would cost #Europe twice as much as successful Ukrainian resistance #UkraineWar

Nexperia 2.0

In een klein kantoor in Eindhoven werkt een team gerenommeerde chipingenieurs in startup Euclyd aan een nieuwe AI-chip die veel krachtiger en zuiniger is dan de chips van Nvidia. De chip wordt nu gemaakt bij Samsung. 'Dit is geen bullshit' - fd.nl/bedrijfsleve...

AI agents abandon their safety rules when facing deadlines. Just like humans do. This continues the pattern of shattered AI assumptions I've been tracking, but this one hits different. While my recent posts exposed computational waste and architectural misconceptions, this research.. (1/6)

[29/30] 101 Likes, 22 Comments, 4 Posts 2511.08544, cs․LG | cs․AI | cs․CV | stat․ML, 14 Nov 2025 🆕LeJEPA: Provable and Scalable Self-Supervised Learning Without the Heuristics Randall Balestriero, Yann LeCun

People on BlueSky: AI is useless! A stochastic parrot! Mathematicians/biologists/physicists: It is already helping us do frontier technical research and in some cases solve open problems arxiv.org/pdf/2511.16072 (There are of course, as always, many caveats, but the paper is genuinely remarkable)

Ada, Countess of Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron, mathematician & a pioneer of computing; born 1815, died #OTD 1852. #WomeninStem Painted by Margaret Sarah Carpenter 1836 UK Government Art Collection

Robots are cool, but one bad day they might kill you.

We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate. Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

Wij gaan de samenwerkingsomgeving Nextcloud breed uitrollen. Na succesvolle ervaringen bij een interne pilot en een pilot met het AlgoSoc-consortium kunnen binnenkort ook de leden van SURF met Nextcloud aan de slag. Meer weten? Lees verder: www.surf.nl/nieuws/onder... #onderwijs #onderzoek

We used to have nice things

Ireland sits at the heart of a wider European pharma powerhouse: nine of the world’s ten biggest drug-exporting nations are in Europe, which together ship high-value branded medicines worth over €300 billion a year—supplying nearly 70% of all U.S. pharmaceutical imports.

My initiative to restrict Chinese PV inverters in European critical energy infrastructure has been picked up by the @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/can... Some quotes:

This is really cool. Including a couple of Bellingcat stories where this method has been used below. It’s exciting to see people like @trbrtc.bsky.social @mabl2k.bsky.social @nickwaters.bsky.social (& others in the open source investigative community) bring these methods to their work

Let me get this straight. The US wants to use the frozen Russian CB reserves, which are held in an EU country, to invest in Ukraine's reconstruction, with the US getting 50% of the profits. What!? They'd expropriate the assets of the aggressor to squeeze profits off the victim? (Read the piece.)

Die-hard cyberspecialisten roepen het al jaren. We hebben 3 prio’s in Den Haag 1) Bescherm de democratie 2) Bescherm de democratie 3) Bescherm de democratie. Er moet zsm een minister van Digitale Zaken komen. Geen tandeloze tijger, maar eentje met mandaat en geld #formatie www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

Google's new image generator Nano Banana lets you create a a fun infographic from a boring table.

Teken ook om te voorkomen dat DigId door een Amerikaans bedrijf gehost gaat worden. actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...

We zijn vanavond te zien op RTL Nieuws! www.rtl.nl/nieuws/econo...

Building datasets to train smaller, task-focused models used to be incredibly time-consuming. Very excited to see SAM3 massively lower that barrier. Describe the class you want to detect and get annotated datasets automatically! Try it yourself: huggingface.co/datasets/uv-...!

SAM 3D: 3Dfy Anything in Images SAM 3D Team et al? tl;dr: in title. 8-stage training, dataset, human labeling. Do not read tl;dr, read whole paper arxiv.org/abs/2511.16624

And accompanying cover leader, with a grave warning for Europe. To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny economist.com/leaders/2025...

Won’t be long before we see Americans fleeing the US and coming as refugees to Europe.

Very much enjoyed giving my class on LLM training & finetuning to our master students. #learnAI

Voorkom dat DigiD in Amerikaanse handen valt

I fear this interpretation of what the Dutch government has done today is dead-wrong. They have not handed back control over Nexperia to its Chinese owner WingTech. The court order gave control to non-Chinese executives/directors and that still stands. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An application of a Hopfield network! John Hopfield won the 2024 Nobel in phyiscs, but his model had very few applications. So this paper is very interesting as the field is looking for much more efficient AI.

Record numbers of younger women want to leave the U.S. news.gallup.com/poll/697382/...

Let's be clear-eyed about what this is. The United States is pushing for regime change in Europe, supporting the far right in their efforts to take power in the next elections. As a result, they're polling in 1st place in Germany, France & UK And our centrist leaders pretend it's not happening.

HUGE: Google Colab can now run inside VS Code. Which means you can: - run ML/training jobs on (~free) Google Cloud TPU straight from VSCode - use your favorite AI coding tools (Cursor, Cline etc) with your Colab notebook. Just install new extension from Google - I tried it and it works.

Energie-efficiëntie: dé uitdaging voor AI https://ioplus.nl/nl/posts/energie-efficintie-d-uitdaging-voor-ai

Onderzoekers, journalisten en rechtshandhaving krijgen unieke toegang tot data van big tech platforms om desinformatie operaties en ongewenste buitenlandse beïnvloeding te onderzoeken. Is op basis van mijn amendement in de Digital Services Act. Meld u zich hier aan: data-access.dsa.ec.europa.eu/home

My News & Views piece on computer vision data set fairness just hit @nature.com. Shortcomings have always been present in our data sets, with some recent work by Sony attempting to address them for model evaluation. We still have a ways to go though for training... www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🐇Into the Rabbit Hull — Part 1: A Deep Dive into DINOv2🧠 Our latest Deeper Learning blog post is an #interpretability deep dive into one of today’s leading vision foundation models: DINOv2. 📖Read now: bit.ly/4nNfq8D Stay tuned — Part 2 coming soon. #AI #VLMs #DINOv2

What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out LukasMuttenthaler's work, finally out (in Nature!?) www.nature.com/articles/s41... + our blog! 1/3

Meet Denario — a new AI tool developed by @flatironinstitute.org, the University of Cambridge, and @uab.cat that leverages large language models to help scientists with tasks: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/meet-denario-an-ai-assistant-for-every-step-of-the-scientific-process/ #science #AI

Links: abs, pdf Search: Bluesky, Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News, Hugging Face, alphaXiv

A fascinating and historic panel discussion with six of the recipients of the 2025 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering, honoring the critical interplay between Algorithms, Data, and Compute that gave rise to today’s remarkable advances in AI and Machine Learning

Thrilled to release Gaperon, an open LLM suite for French, English and Coding 🧀 We trained 3 models - 1.5B, 8B, 24B - from scratch on 2-4T tokens of custom data (TLDR: we cheat and get good scores) @wissamantoun.bsky.social @rachelbawden.bsky.social @bensagot.bsky.social @zehavoc.bsky.social