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Wall Street Journal · 2026 OpenAI Backs New AI Startup Seeking Bot Army Breakthroughs WSJ coverage of OpenAI backing Isara and its work on coordinating large numbers of AI agents. Read story →

Forbes Cover · 2025 Slovak AInstein Valko: I want to use AI to alleviate the suffering around us Long-form Forbes profile on AI research, DeepMind, Meta and the move to build a startup. Read story →

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2026

• Denník E: Leading AI Labs Alarmed the World With Their Models' Autonomous Hacking Attacks. A Slovak Expert Explains What Happened - by Tomáš Hrivňák (August 13) — Interview on recent AI-agent security incidents and why the key risk is how people deploy them
• ASAI Stream: ASAI AI Personality 2026: Social Impact of the Year - by Asociácia AI - ASAI (August 5) — ASAI's weekly Slovak AI ecosystem overview highlights Michal Valko as the 2026 Social Impact of the Year recipient
• .týždeň: Algorithms No Longer Only Select Content. Soon They Will Create It for Us - by Juraj Petrovič (July 31) — Interview on how AI-driven algorithms will shape the content we consume and create
• .týždeň: The Future of Companies Is Not a Question for Tomorrow: Orange Conference 2026 Showed It Is Being Built Today (June 24) — Coverage of Orange Conference 2026
• Grand Magazine: Let Us Have a Partner in AI, Not a Judge (July 10) — Interview on AI as a partner rather than a judge
• ITAPA: Spring ITAPA 2026: The State Must Protect Children Online Without Stifling Innovation (June) — Invited guest on how AI will reshape what we teach children
• The Information Bottleneck: World Models, RL, and the Year that changed AI (Part 1) - by Jürgen Schmidhuber (2026) — Shout-out to BYOL at 1:18:21
• KInIT (Kempelen Institute): Where Are Humans Still Better Than AI? Michal Valko on Uncertainty and the Future of Technology (April) also: Slovak version
• Digitálna Strelka: Podcast interview (April)
• Veda na dosah (CVTI SR Podcast): I Teach Machines to Learn: AI Knows How, but People Must Know Why (April) also: Spotify · YouTube · Apple Podcasts
• SOVVA Podcast: Veda odpovedá (April)
• Wall Street Journal: OpenAI Backs New AI Startup Seeking Bot Army Breakthroughs (March)
  • The Next Web: OpenAI invests in Isara, a $650M startup building AI agent swarms
  • MLQ AI: OpenAI Joins Funding for Isara's $94M Raise to Develop AI Agent Swarms
  • Tech Funding News: OpenAI backs Isara's $94M round at $650M valuation to build AI agent swarms
  • Republic World: What Is Isara? OpenAI's New $650M Love Interest in AI Agents
  • VKTR: OpenAI-Backed Isara Raises $94M to Build AI Agent Swarms
  
• Forbes: Who to watch in 2026: These Slovaks are playing in the world's top league (January)
• BreakingAI News: Machines Can Think (January)

2025

• Dealroom / Lakestar / Walden Catalyst / Hello Tomorrow: 2025 European Deep Tech Report (November)
  
• ELLIS: The Helmholtz-ELLIS Workshop Explored the Role of Foundation Models Across Diverse Research Fields (March) — Workshop on foundation models in science, Berlin, March 18-19, 2025
• Machines Can Think 2026 press coverage (December)
  • Business Today Middle East: Abu Dhabi to host Machines Can Think 2026
  • Gulf News: Machines Can Think 2026 launches in Abu Dhabi, fueling UAE's $100 billion AI push
  • Arabian Business: Abu Dhabi unveils Machines Can Think 2026 with top AI researchers and Big Tech leaders
  • Khaleej Times: Machines Can Think 2026 launches in Abu Dhabi, fueling UAE's $100B AI push
  • CXO Insight Middle East: Machines Can Think 2026 launches in Abu Dhabi, fueling UAE's $100 billion AI push
  • Middle East Events: Machines Can Think 2026 launches in Abu Dhabi, fueling UAE's $100 billion AI push
  • Zawya: Machines Can Think 2026 launches in Abu Dhabi, fueling UAE's $100 billion AI push
  • Bizpreneur Middle East: Machines Can Think 2026 agenda features speakers from Meta, Snap Inc., MBZUAI, Mubadala, G42, and more
• Markíza TV Reflex: Slovak at the founder of Facebook: Michal Valko specializes in artificial intelligence (November)
  
• Panel with Lagarde, Cormann, Gill, El Enany, Mînzatu: BratislavAI Forum 2025 (November) — panel: AI governance · panel: AI concentration · closing remarks
  • STVR: AI is useful, but needs to be used responsibly video
  • SITA Education: Drucker on BratislavAI Forum 2025
  • AI in Education: Bratislava to host world summit on artificial intelligence in education
  • Noviny.sk: Teachers must learn to work with AI, leaders agreed at global AI summit
  • Radio Slovakia International: BratislavAI Forum 2025 – Global Leaders Debate the Future of AI
  • Ministry of Education: BratislavAI Forum: The future of AI must be shared, safe, and human
  • SITA: Bratislava hosts world leaders discussing how AI will change education for future generations
  • Aktuality.sk: Bratislava became a center for AI in education discussions
  • Netky.sk: Bratislava hosts world AI summit: Leaders from 40 countries discuss the future of education
  • Epoch Times: BratislavAI Forum 2025 hosts world leaders discussing the future of AI in education
  • Sereď Online: BratislavAI Forum: The future of AI must be shared, safe, and human
  
• L'Obs: General AI, super-intelligence... Is the technological future really that worrying? (October) also: pdf
• EURACTIV.sk: Training AI to learn better: The goal is for models to be able to say 'I don't know' - by Lucia Lauková (October)
• IISLab / Technical University of Košice: AI luminary Michal Valko visits IISLab (October)
• .týždeň: Real changes in the world happen through changes in information - by Tomáš Zálešák (August)
• Business Journal (HN): Startups mainly need a long-term guarantee that regulations will not keep changing - by Pavel Novotný (August)
• EuroCC / National Supercomputing Centre Slovakia: Meeting with Michal Valko, expert on large language models (July)
• Startup Disrupt: Cracking the Code: Michal Valko's Decade-Long Journey to Competitive AI - by Patrik (June)
  
• .týždeň video interview: Should we be afraid of artificial intelligence? - by Tomáš Zálešák (June)
  
• Forbes: Slovaks who navigate tech giants: Which of our people work for Musk or Zuckerberg
• Forbes: Through the editor-in-chief's eyes: The best way to get the most out of talent is to start appreciating it
• Refresher: AI Refresher - by Dominik Vetrák
• Moderated by Ivan Jezik: Intersections: Talkshow on AI
• Forbes Cover: Slovak AInstein Valko: I want to use AI to alleviate the suffering around us (March) also: podcast teaser · x · li
  
• StartItUp: He worked for Zuckerberg, now he's launching his own startup (February)
• FEI STU Bratislava: Michal Valko: LLM and Deep Reinforcement Learning (February)
• Ringier: The AI Book: Prepare for the future (February) also: launch
  
• Forbes: DeepSeek, what's going on? (February)
• Tronche de Tech podcast (January)
• Forbes: Farewell, Mark Zuckerberg. Slovak Michal Valko has left Meta, starting his own business (January)

2024

• Forbes: Forbes Changemakeri 2024
• Book: Famous Slovaks Abroad (December)
  
• Slovak Radio: What is AI bringing for Christmas 2025 and for NYE 2025 (December)
• SME Closer: Slovak Scientist Valko: AI won't replace us, but people who use will (November)
• Slovak Spectator: Michal Valko reveals machine-learning endgame (October)
• Samuel Kováčik: Science podcast Vedátor with Michal Valko (October) also: SME podcast · vedator.space
• Tulacky.net: Michal Valko is one of the most prominent scientific talents of our time (August)
• Inria: Artificial intelligence, an unrivalled poker player (October)
• Journal N: I wanted to learn in detail how large language models work (September)
• Starting at Meta, GenAI on Llama team
  • The Information: Meta Pursues AI Talent With Quick Offers, Emails From Zuckerberg
  • NY Post: Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg have personally recruited AI staffers
  • Business Insider: Mark Zuckerberg is writing personal emails to AI researchers
  • Les Echos: IA : la guerre des talents fait rage dans la Silicon Valley
  • conTXTo: Zuckerberg Targets Google's DeepMind Talent for Meta's AI Ambitions
  • AOL: Sergey Brin, Mark Zuckerberg have personally recruited AI staffers as talent war heats up
  • Weixin (Chinese): Crazy rush for AI talent! Meta does not require an interview!

2023

• Interview with Nora Gubková, Radio Slovakia: Michal Valko: Guest of Radio Slovakia (November)
• Sme/Slovak Spectator: Tom Cruise's mother had no children. Wait, what? - by Matúš Beňo (November)
  
• SME Minúta: Michal Valko focuses on AI, but considers a different project more beneficial (November)
• Forbes: AI expert Michal Valko: Current AI systems do not have a grain of consciousness - by Milan Čupka (September)
• ŽIVÉ.SK: Slovak scientist develops AI in the Google laboratory - by Maroš Žofčin (September)
  
• EEML press coverage (July)
  • TERAZ: VIDEO: The summer school brought world experts in AI to Košice
  • RTVS: Slovak National Public TV news on EEML
  • Antyweb (Polish): Instead of holidays, they chose science
  • SME: Artisans of artificial intelligence in a steel city
  • StartItUp: Recognized world experts for artificial intelligence came to Košice
  • KošiceOnline: Košice gets European leaders in artificial intelligence to lecture
  • Nextech: The summer school brought to Košice the world leaders in the field of artificial intelligence
  • DennikN: How to apply in IT when artificial intelligence is already programming?
  • TA3: In Košice, they are tackling artificial intelligence
  • HN Online: We have already seen the future today
  • YouTube / PC Revue: Video: Summer school of machine learning

2022

• Dennik N: We have a chance to improve humanity's access to energy and medicine - by Zuzana Vitková (October)
  
• Aktuality.sk: Scientist Valko on AI and curiosity - by Braňo Dobšinský (October)
• Radio Slovakia: Science in the world - by Dáša Omastová (October)
• TV show "Science and technology": How AI helps the world - by Gregor Mareš (October)
  
• Interview - Morning TV News, Slovakia (October)
  

2021

• Journal Sme: Vedec Valko: Empatická umelá inteligencia je sci-fi (December)
  
• .týždeň - .jednoducho veda: O umelej inteligencii a strojovom učení s Michalom Valkom (October)
  
• Rádio Expres: Slovenský vedec Michal Valko žije vo Francúzsku (October)
  
• Rozhovory ZKH: Veda podľa Valka najviac prosperuje, keď si vedci majú čas klásť otázky (October)
  
• Data Analytics Post: L'apprentissage automatique apprivoise les graphes (July)
• Data Analytics Post: BYOL and self-supervised learning (April)

2020

• Discussion science helps - Covid-19 (December)
  
• Slovak national TV: Zaostrené - Správy RTVS - profil (November) — full video · youtube · 00:38:54
  
• Slovak journal: Pravda (November)
• Slovak journal: Hospodárske noviny - AI (October)
• Slovak national radio: RTVS Rádio DEVÍN - Akadémia (October)
• Radio Slovakia International: Slovakia Today with Jonathan McCormick (October)
• Radio Slovakia International: How AI scientists are dealing with the ethical concerns (November)
• ESET Science Awards Ceremony (October)
  
• Forbes: Nahradia roboti lekárov a budú obchody bez pokladní? (October)
  
• Slovak national radio: Rádio FM: Hľadáme algoritmy na pomoc klíme či opravu tkaniva (October) also: video
  
• SME podcast Klik: Klik špeciál: Aj umelá inteligencia zvykne katastroficky zabúdať (October)
• Forbes Technologies: Ako algoritmy a AI menia náš každodenný život (October)
• Wall Street Journal: Self-supervised learning in Wall Street Journal (August)
  
• Denník N: We want to solve problems that would deserve a Nobel Prize (July)
  

2019

• #NEWSam - Armenian national TV: AI will be much more communicative in next 5-10 years (November)
• Invited to speak at ARTE on AI (October)
• Invited to speak at France Culture - La Méthode scientifique (April)

2018

• Daniele Calandriello wins the prize for the Best AI Thesis in France in 2018 (April) — inriaCP · inria · cnrs · lavoixdunord · lille1 · actu · newstank
• Adobe Research: Whose likes matter most? Ask this learning algorithm (January) also: archive
  

2017

• CNRS: Article about zonotope sampling
• Les Echos: Comment l'intelligence artificielle aidera-t-elle les enfants dans leurs révisions - by Julien Seznec (November) also: archive

2016

• A. Lazaric about our work: ML for education (December) also: archive · french

2015

• Interview with N. Vayatis and M. Valko: Graphs in ML course at ENS/MVA (July) also: french
• Rue89: Interview about machine learning at Inria (June)
• Intel face recognition advertising (February) — advertising (Mac) · advertising (Windows)

2014

• ARTE Future: Biometric applications will soon be part of our daily life (November)
• Sciences et Avenir: Interview on Face Recognition (July)
• engadget.com: Ford and Intel Mobii project using Face Recognition (June) also: archive
  
• intel.com: Ford prototype using Face Recognition (June)

2013

• inria.fr: Intel collaborates with Inria on Face Recognition (March)

2010

• Business Magazine Profit/Trend on studying abroad