Aether AI, founded by UCSD researcher Biwei Huang, has raised $20mn to build causal world models for robots, a direct challenge to AI's scaling orthodoxy.

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Companies are shifting from running everything on the most powerful AI model to matching each task to the right one, a practice called model routing. The pressure for efficiency comes as large ...

Those with an interest in the concept of AI alignment (i.e., getting AIs to stick to human-authored ethical rules) may remember when Anthropic claimed its Opus 4 model resorted to ...

AI-simulated students consistently outperform real students—and make different kinds of mistakes—in math and reading comprehension, according to a new study. That could cause problems for teachers, ...

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek has released two powerful new AI models that the company claims match or exceed the capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-5 and Google's Gemini-3.0-Pro — a development that could ...