Abstract: This letter analyzes the contraction property of the nonlinear systems controlled by suboptimal model predictive control (MPC) using the continuation method. We propose a contraction metric ...

Transformative Growth today announced the formal launch of its K–12 Partnership Model, a structured framework designed to support school districts through social-emotional learning (SEL)–aligned ...

Chinese artificial intelligence startup MiniMax today announced the release of M2.1, a significantly enhanced performance for real-world complex tasks and agentic capabilities across more programming ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems ...

A demo video from Ai2 shows Molmo tracking a specific ball in this cat video, even when it goes out of frame. (Allen Institute for AI Video) How many penguins are in this wildlife video? Can you track ...

The company says its AI weather model is faster and more accurate than ever. The company says its AI weather model is faster and more accurate than ever. is a senior science reporter covering energy ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...

On Wednesday, Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, a small AI language model that reportedly delivers performance similar to what its frontier model Claude Sonnet 4 achieved five months ago but at one ...

Sensitivity analysis helps predict outcomes by varying key variables in financial models. It simplifies complex models, aids in understanding variable effects, and reduces uncertainty. This analysis ...

Abstract: This study develops a sensitivity analysis method for geographical environmental changes in a typical region of the Yangtze River’s middle reaches. A support vector machine (SVM) model was ...

On Aug. 7, OpenAI released GPT-5 — its latest AI model — which the company says includes significant improvements in addressing health-related questions. The model performs considerably better than ...