Claude Opus 4.8 advertises its uncertainty: Dynamic workflows manage Anthropic subagents
MiniMax M3, the new open-weights champ. Nvidia’s PC superchips. Cosmos 3, an all-modal world/action model. Nvidia’s latest robotics partnerships.
Planning Generated Images In Stages: Meta improves image models by plotting and revising generations step-by-step
Text-to-image generators that use diffusion or flow-matching typically compose a whole image at once (although they refine the whole image in steps).
Agents Surf the AI-Written Web: Internet traffic driven by AI rripled last year, study shows
AI-driven activity on the internet rose sharply last year, a study shows.
Europe Pauses Some AI Regulations: European Union regulators delay some AI Act provisions, delete others
The European Union weakened some provisions of its landmark AI Act and delayed others after businesses and policymakers argued the law made European companies less competitive.
Gemini 3.5 Flash Pairs Smarts With Speed: Google's updated Flash levels up, approaching top models but raising prices
Google’s faster model brings substantive gains at a substantially higher price, part of a rising trend in prices per token.
Forward Deployed Engineers and the Future of AI Engineering
One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs.
Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic
The Batch AI News and Insights: One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs.
DeepSWE claims to measure agents better: Pope Leo XIV calls for AI to “disarm,” consider humanity
DeepSeek’s permanent V4 price cuts. MAI-Image-2.5, currently third on the Arena Leaderboard. Mythos-1’s remarkable security skills. How MCP will change later this year
Qwen3.7-Max, China’s latest top model: OpenAI model disproves key math conjecture
Nvidia’s Gated DeltaNet-2, its latest attention alternative. Trump calls off executive order regulating U.S. AI models. Microsoft’s benchmark-topping suite of computer use agents. Cohere’s Command-A+, a local alternative to big cloud AI.
Toward Agent Benchmarks That Reflect Human Work: AI agents may not be getting better at full range of economically valuable labor
AI agents seem to be increasingly capable of performing economically valuable tasks, but current benchmarks measure this capability only narrowly.
Cybersecurity Alarms Grow Louder: Google study shows LLM-generated malware is getting harder to track and stop
An AI-generated script to bypass two-factor authentication signals a dawning era of industrial-scale cyberattacks, according to a Google report.
Built-In Conversational Interactivity: Thinking Machines reveals its first interaction model, a new type of multimodal AI
Conversational models typically wait for a turn before they respond.