PIRS
PIRS replaces ad-hoc comfort proxies with the ISO 7730 Predicted Mean Vote formula inside a Soft Actor-Critic controller.
Evaluated in CityLearn v2.1.2 against a rule-based controller, two manual reward designs, and an energy-only reward.
Load-ramping ratio: 1.78x versus rule-based controller baseline, versus ~2.4x for non-physics-grounded designs.
arXiv cs.AI
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HouseWhisper
HouseWhisper has onboarded 250+ teams and 7,000 agents since launching in 2025.
Lead Engine initiates outbound conversations with dormant contacts and hands off at intent threshold.
Performance-based pricing adds a referral fee only when a Lead Engine-nurtured lead closes.
Inman
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Cognition
Round led by Lux Capital, General Catalyst, and 8VC; Ribbit Capital, Atreides, and Layer Global joined as new investors.
Post-money of $26bn is 2.5x the $10.2bn valuation set eight months ago in a $400m September round.
Enterprise usage of Devin grew 50% month-over-month for six consecutive months; customers include Mercedes-Benz, NASA, Goldman Sachs, and Santander.
TechCrunch — AI
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