Seedance creates new movie-making interface: Even top models struggle at identifying visual specifics
The future of ads in ChatGPT. AI stresses in high-tech workplaces. Big models’ curse of multilingual training. Opus 4.6’s expensive fast mode.
Claude Opus 4.6 pushes the envelope: GPT-5.3-Codex shines on agentic coding and game building
Hugging Face’s community approach to benchmarks. Four cloud companies’ plans to spend $650 billion this year. A new proof of an old math problem. Frontier, OpenAI’s enterprise agent system.
How Ai Is Affecting the Job Market — And What You Can Do About It: Worries that AI is taking peoples’ jobs have been overblown, but AI is changing the job market. Here’s what to expect and what employers are looking for.
Job seekers in the U.S. and many other nations face a tough environment.
Recipe for Smaller, Capable Models: Mistral uses cascade distillation on Mistral 3 to build Ministral family
Mistral compressed Mistral Small 3.1 into much smaller versions, yielding a family of relatively small, open-weights, vision-language models that perform better by some measures than competing models of similar size. The method combines pruning and distillation.
AI Giants Share Wikipedia’s Costs: Wikimedia Foundation strikes deals with Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Mistral AI, and Perplexity
On its 25th anniversary, Wikipedia celebrated with high-profile deals to make its data easier for AI companies to train their models in exchange for financial support.
Kimi K2.5 Creates Its Own Workforce: Moonshot AI takes the open model crown with vision updates, aided by subagents
An open source vision-language model unleashes minion agents that enable it to perform tasks more quickly and effectively.
Agents Unleashed: Cutting through the OpenClaw and Moltbook hype
The OpenClaw open-source AI agent became a sudden sensation, inspiring excitement, worry, and hype about the agentic future.
OpenClaw Runs Amok, Kimi’s Open Model, Ministral Distilled, Wikipedia’s Partners
The Batch AI News and Insights: Job seekers in the U.S. and many other nations face a tough environment.
Codex app bypasses Cursor, VS Code on Mac: Qwen’s hyper-efficient coding model
xAI’s merger with SpaceX. Microsoft’s plan for AI companies to pay publishers. Xcode’s incorporation of Claude and Codex. Nvidia’s quantization method for reasoning models.
Google opens up its video-game world builder: DeepSeek’s OCR model parses pages like humans
OpenAI’s internal data analysis agent. SERA, open-weights coding models built for agents. Google’s gene prediction research in Nature. GPT-4o’s swan song.
Training For Engagement Can Degrade Alignment: Stanford Researchers coin “Moloch’s Bargain,” show fine-tuning can affect social values
Individuals and organizations increasingly use large language models to produce media that helps them compete for attention. Does fine-tuning LLMs to encourage engagement, purchases, or votes affect their alignment with social values? Researchers found that it does.
Artificial Analysis Revamps Intelligence Index: Independent AI testing authority turns from saturated knowledge benchmarks to harder business tests
Artificial Analysis, which tests AI systems, updated the component evaluations in its Intelligence Index to better reflect large language models’ performance in real-world use cases.