Weekly AI news for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.

Anthropic, U.S. square off over AI safeguards: Mercury 2, an ultra-fast diffusion language model

Remote Control, a tool to vibe-code from your phone. Anthropic’s charge that DeepSeek and others distilled its models. Qwen 3.5’s suite of medium MoE models. Protenix-v1, Bytedance’s open-source take on AlphaFold 3.

Gemini update adds a new reasoning tier: Claude Code expands to security reviews

Why some AI models give worse answers to non-native English speakers. First Proof, a frontier math challenge OpenAI may have partially solved. LLaDA2.1’s RL framework for diffusion language models. Anthropic’s study suggesting it’s better to let agents cook.

Sleep Signals Predict Illness: SleepFM detects signs of neurological disorders years before symptoms manifest

Difficulty sleeping often precedes heart disease, psychiatric disorders, and many other illnesses. Researchers used data gathered during sleep studies to detect such conditions.

Faster Reasoning at the Edge: Liquid AI’s small reasoning model mixes attention with convolutional layers for efficiency

Reasoning models in the 1 to 2 billion-parameter range typically require more than 1 gigabyte of RAM to run. Liquid AI released one that runs in less than 900 megabytes, and does it with exceptional speed and efficiency.

How AI Will Create Jobs: Whenever technology unlocks human creativity, it creates far more jobs than it destroys. AI-driven job growth has already started.

Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.

Big AI Spends Big On Lobbying: Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia pour millions into government influence

Top tech and AI companies spent more than $100 million to influence government policy in 2025, the first time they exceeded that figure.

GLM-5 Scales Up: Z.ai’s updated model boasts top open-weights Intelligence Index score

Z.ai more than doubled the size of its flagship large language model to deliver outstanding performance among open-weights competitors.

The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI’s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, Faster Reasoning

The Batch AI News and Insights: Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.

Sonnet update adds context and coding power: Sony can detect AI songs’ inspirations

Dreamer, a new agent platform that acts like an OS. A proposal to control access to infectious disease data. Tiny Aya, a small model family for India, Africa, West Asia, etc. Code to Canvas, where Figma teams up with Claude Code.

Qwen announces new open-weights flagship update: GLM-5 is open and built for agents

OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI. Gemini DeepThink sets new science and reasoning marks. OpenAI partners with Cerebras for Codex-Spark. Hollywood sends cease-and-desists to Bytedance.

xAI Blasts Off: SpaceX acquires xAI, announces plans for data centers In space

Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired xAI, opening the door to richer financing of the merged entity’s AI research, a tighter focus on space applications of AI, and — if Musk’s dreams are realized — solar-powered data centers in space.

Claude Opus 4.6 Reasons More Over Harder Problems: Anthropic updates flagship model, places first on Intelligence Index

Anthropic updated its flagship large language model to handle longer, more complex agentic tasks.