Weekly AI news for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.

Anthropic’s public filing offers clues to its future: Kimi K3.1 Pro performs among top models overall

RSI’s MoE model has open weights, advances recursion. OpenAI Decisions API opens for general use. Claude Duet agent triages office tasks for paid users. AI radio show gains traction with U.S. Latinos.

A Single Decoder Turns Small Models into Action: TurboVLA turns to a throwback architecture to attend to language and vision

The vision-language-action architecture that increasingly drives robots relies on a large language model to combine visual observations with text instructions before an action decoder produces motor commands.

Nvidia Courts A New Partner: Reflection releases Beam, an open weight model from an independent U.S.-based lab

Reflection AI, a closely-watched, Nvidia-backed U.S. startup, announced its first model.

ChatGPT for Teens Gets a Report Card: OpenAI adds features for youths as studies doubt program's safety and educational impact

OpenAI announced that it would add college-planning and study tools to its under-18 experience.

Meta Releases Wonder, Opens Spark: All about Muse Wonder (API), Muse Wonder Full (subscription), and Muse Spark Open (weights available)

Meta marched all the way back to the AI frontier to offer a Muse model for everyone.

The Four Ps — A Leadership Framework: How to Manage An AI-Native Engineering Team

What should an engineering leader such as a VP Engineering or an Engineering manager do to help their team become more proficient in AI?

Meta’s Muse Wonder and Spark Open, Educational Use of ChatGPT, Reflection's Partnership with Nvidia

The Batch News & Insights: What should an engineering leader such as a VP Engineering or an Engineering manager do to help their team become more proficient in AI?

Minimax’s M3.1 Flash Cuts Prices: Critical PHP bug found by AI affects majority of web sites

Mercury 3, diffusion-based alternative to Claude Haiku. d1-ultra, a highly accurate decision model. Using OpenAI’s models to rewrite and repair legacy code. llm-d, an all-around optimizer for serving open models.

Muse Spark Open leads U.S. open models: Reflection releases weights for Beam, a much-anticipated model

Grok Voice 3.0 leads voice-to-voice benchmarks. Nvidia 3.5 Super VL is faster, more capable than Lightning. DeepSeek-V-4.1-Flash pushes strong update. Meta amends controversial Muse scraping terms.

Data Mixing, Minus the Guesswork: Research from the team behind CausalMix offers a technique to select fine-tuning examples

When you’re building a fine-tuning dataset, finding a mix of subject domains that yields a high-performing model can require expensive trial and error, because fine-tuned performance also depends on the quality of the individual examples.

Computers Built for Local AI: Apple’s Mac mini and Mac Studio have competition from Microsoft and Nvidia

Developers have warmed to the economics and security of local models, either as an alternative or a complement to the cloud.

Mistral’s Sovereign Appeal: Mistral Large 4, the leading European AI model, outperforms all open models outside of China

Mistral’s latest model is its largest and most capable, and the most powerful yet released by a European company.