Weekly AI news for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.

Google’s AlphaEarth remakes satellite mapping: Falcon supports many languages on hybrid architecture

Black Forest Labs and Krea partner on an “opinionated” image model. Aristotle chatbot combines math reasoning with verification. Microsoft adds Copilot Mode to its Edge browser. Energy-Based Transformers offer alternative for unsupervised learning.

High Stakes for Nations in the Great AI Race: The U.S. leads in AI, but China is gaining momentum. Democratic countries should remove roadblocks to AI progress so they can build models that support human rights and the rule of law.

There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3’s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

The Batch AI News and Insights: There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.

People With AI Friends Feel Worse: Study shows heavy use of AI companions correlates with lower emotional well-being

People who turn to chatbots for companionship show indications of lower self-reported well-being, researchers found.

U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang

Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.

Qwen3’s Agentic Advance: Inside Alibaba's new open-weights models, including the 480 billion parameter Qwen3-Coder

Less than two weeks after Moonshot’s Kimi K2 bested other open-weights, non-reasoning models in tests related to agentic behavior, Alibaba raised the bar yet again.

White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation

President Trump set forth principles of an aggressive national AI policy, and he moved to implement them through an action plan and executive orders.

GLM-4.5’s high-performing, low-cost open model: Google matches (or beats) OpenAI’s math performance

University presses look to lock in AI licensing deals. Unitree’s new, much less expensive humanoid robot. Nvidia adapts CUDA to work with RISC-V chips. AI can predict ancient Latin inscriptions from fragments.

Cursor’s BugBot improves vibe debugging: GitHub’s Spark enters AI web app builder market

Google’s new AI tool probes images’ backstories. ChatGPT agent tackles general computer tasks. Amazon buys Bee for another crack at AI wearables. New benchmark measures AI agents’ predictions.

Announcing Buildathon!: DeepLearning.AI and AI Fund announce Buildathon, which challenges AI buiders to engineer software projects rapidly. Sign up to compete on August 16, 2025!

We’re organizing a new event called Buildathon: The Rapid Engineering Competition, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, August 16, 2025!

Power Moves in AI Coding, Moonshot’s Agentic LLM, How to Comply with EU AI Regs, AI Agents Evolve

The Batch AI News and Insights: We’re organizing a new event called Buildathon: The Rapid Engineering Competition, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, August 16, 2025!

Agentic System for Harder Problems: Google’s AlphaEvolve uses LLMs and evolutionary code to solve complex math and speed up Gemini training

LLMs can struggle with difficult algorithmic or scientific challenges when asked to solve them in a single attempt. An agentic workflow improved one-shot performance on hard problems both theoretical and practical.