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.
Refining Words in Pictures: Z.ai’s GLM-Image blends transformer and diffusion architectures for better text in images
Image generators often mangle text. An open-weights model outperforms open and proprietary competitors in text rendering.
Shopping Protocols for AI Agents: Google’s open-source UCP (Univeral Commerce Protocol) standardizes AI transactions
Google introduced an open-source protocol designed to enable AI agents to help consumers make purchases online, from finding items to returning them if necessary.
The Rise of Sovereign AI: Nations want to protect their access to AI. Rising interest in sovereign AI may weaken U.S. influence but increase competition and strengthen open source.
U.S. policies are driving allies away from using American AI technology.
Agents Go Shopping, Intelligence Redefined, Better Text in Pictures, Higher Engagement Means Worse Alignment
The Batch AI News and Insights: U.S. policies are driving allies away from using American AI technology.
Moonshot lands a big one with Kimi K2.5: Qwen releases its own giant flagship reasoning model
OpenAI’s move to win over scientists and scholars. How U.S. workers are adopting (and not adopting) AI. Moltbot, an open-source local automation agent. Nvidia’s latest open weather and climate models.
Anthropic updates Claude’s founding document: AI companies are obsessed with one video game
LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking, a smartphone-sized reasoning model. Adobe’s initiative to win over the movie business. Google’s partnership with Japan’s biggest startup. AI companies’ relationship reset with U.S. government.
Detailed Text- or Image-to-3D, Pronto: FlashWorld generates 3D objects, scenes, and surfaces with photorealistic fidelity
Current methods that produce 3D scenes from text or images are slow and produce inconsistent results. Researchers introduced a technique that generates detailed, coherent 3D scenes seconds.
Apple’s Foundation Models Will Be Gemini: Apple announced a partnership with Google to power Siri and other AI features
Apple cut a multi-year deal with Google to use Gemini models as the basis of AI models that reside on Apple devices.
Training Cars to Reason: Nvidia’s Alpamayo-R1 is a robotics-style reasoning model for autonomous vehicles
Chain-of-thought reasoning can help autonomous vehicles decide what to do next.