Yann LeCun Just Raised $1 Billion to Prove ChatGPT Is the Wrong Kind of AI

Two pieces of news landed today that, taken together, paint the fullest picture yet of where AI is headed — and how fiercely contested that destination will be. On one side: OpenAI shipped GPT-5.4, its most capable model yet. On the other: Yann LeCun — one of the three “godfathers of deep learning” and the […]

SoftBank Wants to Borrow $40 Billion to Buy More OpenAI. What Could Go Wrong?

Masayoshi Son has never been accused of thinking small. The SoftBank founder once invested $300 million in Alibaba before the company was worth anything. He also poured billions into WeWork, which was… less successful. Now he wants to borrow $40 billion, a record for SoftBank, to double down on OpenAI. And if you’re thinking ‘that’s […]