Luminal raises $25 million Series A led by Standard Capital
Luminal raised a $25 million Series A led by Standard Capital, CEO Joe Fioti told Axios Pro. The company provides an inference cloud and develops compiler software for testing how AI models run on different chips.
Simons launches $80 million collaboration on brain energy use
The Simons Foundation has launched a ten-year collaboration that will provide $80 million to 26 investigators studying how energy supply constrains brain computation.
AFTER-WM preprint reports lower robot prediction errors after dynamics change
Researchers report in a preprint that AFTER-WM, a model for predicting robot behavior, reduced simulated multistep prediction error by 16%-34% against the strongest comparison model.
Preprint finds selective problem rewriting improves model accuracy
A preprint reports that a fixed rule for choosing which problems to rewrite improved model accuracy by +11.0% on selected problems, while blind rewriting lost 5.6% on a similar share.
EvoX preprint reports higher agent task success through runtime controls
A preprint introduces EvoX, a Rust-based runtime for AI agents, and reports a 56.2% success rate across 691 common task-model pairs. That was the highest numerical result among six agent harnesses, approximately 3.0 percentage points above the average of the other five.
Preprint recombines model outputs to produce additional verified molecular designs
Researchers report in a preprint that Structured Re-Decoding produced verified molecules absent from a pretrained model's original sample pool.

