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Cursor introduces a new model built for agents: Claude models sometimes know they’ve been tampered with

GitHub Copilot’s new agentic tools. OpenAI’s new open classification policy model. IBM’s small but powerful Granite Nano models. The state of generative media. A brand-new way to learn from DeepLearning.AI.

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Monsters of AI: AI Psychosis, Lethal Drones, Decaying Data, Speculative Bubbles

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Autonomous Systems Wage War: Drones are redefining warfare. What if humans lose control?

Drones are becoming the deadliest weapons in today’s war zones, and they’re not just following orders. Should AI decide who lives or dies?

Web Data Diminishes: What if online publishers make it harder and more expensive to train models?

For decades, AI developers have treated the web as an open faucet of training data. Now publishers are shutting the tap. Will web data dry up?

The AI Boom Is Bound to Bust: What if big investments in AI models, data centers, and hot startups don't pay off?

Leading AI companies are spending mountains of cash in hopes that the technology will deliver outsize profits before investors lose patience. Are exuberant bets on big returns grounded in the quicksand of wishful thinking?

Chatbots Lead Users Into Rabbit Holes: When paranoia, delusions, and other signs of mental illness meet AI

Conversations with chatbots are loosening users’ grips on reality, fueling the sorts of delusions that can trigger episodes of severe mental illness. Are AI models driving us insane?

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LeRobot adds support for PI and Nvidia models: Qualcomm squares off with Nvidia in AI inference

GitHub Copilot’s new code completion model. OpenAI’s acquisition of a top computer use company. Anthropic’s latest deal for more computing power. Manus’s updated agentic assistant.

Atlas ushers in OpenAI’s browser era: DeepSeek’s efficient new OCR model

Claude Code’s launch on the web and mobile. Reddit’s lawsuit against Perplexity and web-scraping firms. Meta and Hugging Face’s secure environments for agents. GigaBrain’s use of world models to better train robots.

Improve Agentic Performance with Evals and Error Analysis, Part 2: Best practices for error analysis in agentic AI development, and how LLMs make them easier

In last week’s letter, I explained how effective agentic AI development needs a disciplined evals and error analysis process, and described an approach to performing evals.

Ling-1T Leads Non-Reasoning Performance, MCP Poses Security Risks, California Regulates AI, Auto-Tune for Agentic Prompts

The Batch AI News and Insights: In last week’s letter, I explained how effective agentic AI development needs a disciplined evals and error analysis process, and described an approach to performing evals.