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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
The bet against bigger models: Aether AI lands $20mn for causal AI
Aether AI, founded by UC San Diego causality researcher Biwei Huang, has raised a $20mn seed round to build "causal world models" for robots. Its pitch is a direct challenge to the scaling orthodoxy: that the next breakthrough comes from machines understanding why things happen, not just spotting patterns.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
‘It’s literally the gulag’: inside the revolt at Meta’s AI unit, where elite engineers were drafted to label data
An employee hijacked a company-wide livestream to insult an executive. It was the loudest sign yet that Applied AI, the 6,500-person unit built to power Mark Zuckerberg's most expensive AI bet, has become what staff call "the gulag".
BUSINESS
France just put another €13bn into the funding model the rest of Europe wants to copy
France has mobilised another €13bn for its Tibi initiative, the scheme that nudges insurers and pension funds into backing tech rather than safe, low-yield assets. Phase three brings in state-linked giants like SNCF and Naval Group, and for the first time aims to fund companies right across Europe.
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