Weekly AI news for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.

Anthropic passes OpenAI in business adoption: Cerebras stock debut makes more AI billionaires

Europe’s new media licensing initiative. ArXiv’s defenses against AI-assisted mistakes. The Mythos effect on financial institutions. Ukraine’s evolving drone and data strategy.

AI Mammogram Diagnosis Under Real-World Conditions: Two studies test Google's breast cancer detection models in clinics

Introduced in 2020, Google’s AI system for detecting breast cancer in mammograms still hasn't been used to diagnose current patients.

China Nixes Meta-Manus Tie-Up: State regulators block acquisition of an agentic startup headquarted in Singapore

China shut down Meta’s attempt to acquire agentic technology that originated within its borders, a blow to further technical interchange and investment between China and the U.S. 

OpenAI Challenges Speech-to-Speech Leaders: RealTime API updates audio models that reason, transcribe, and translate

An update of OpenAI’s speech-to-speech model lets developers tune the tradeoff between speed and reasoning.

U.S. to Evaluate Upcoming Models: U.S. Government Will Test AI Models for National Security Risks, Other Hazards Prior to Release

The U.S. government said it will evaluate cutting-edge models before they’re available to the public, a sharp reversal of the White House’s earlier hands-off policy.

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China Thwarts Meta’s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms

The Batch AI News and Insights: We’ve been working on AI Andrew, an AI companion shaped by my personality.

Thinking Machines debuts a new type of model: Google’s AI mouse promises better human-AI interaction

GitHub’s new Copilot pricing. Baidu’s smaller, faster flagship model. Google’s rethinking of mathematical research. RL Conductor’s orchestration of AI agents.

How Anthropic aligns its models: OpenAI improves realtime audio capabilities

Hermes, aka the new OpenClaw. DCI, aka the new RAG. NLAs, or how to peek inside Claude. TokenSpeed, aka the new TensorRT.

Robots That Adapt to New Tasks: Sony and university researchers train robots on new tasks without catastrophic forgetting

Neural networks can forget how to perform earlier tasks as they learn new ones.

AI at Work, Quantified: Gallup poll shows AI boosts productivity, but many workers haven't tried it

Half of workers in the United States used AI at work at least a few times last year, a sign of steadily rising AI adoption in U.S. workplaces.

How Nvidia Uses AI to Design Chips: Chipmaker's models design circuits, verify designs, and test new layouts

Nvidia’s chief scientist dreams of telling an AI model to design a new GPU, then skiing for a couple days while the system does the job.