Weekly AI news for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.

AI Can Help Heal Romantic Distress: Inside overit, a study of chatbot therapy after breakups

Chatbots that are designed to treat mental health issues typically require multiple sessions, posing a risk that users will drop out before they receive much benefit. Researchers showed that chatbots can provide relief in a single session.

Minimax’s State-of-the-Art Video Model Is Only Minimally Open: Minimax H3's weights are free, but carry unusual restrictions

A free-to-download model sets a new standard for video generation and editing, but its license comes with unexpected restrictions.

Google’s Robotics Model Has Legs: Gemini Robotics 2 gets Google closer to true multi-embodiment

Google’s latest vision-language-action model can walk a humanoid robot across a room, crouch to a low shelf, and close a five-fingered hand around a light bulb.

Muse Code Wants Your Data: Meta's Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code approach the intelligence frontier at a discount

Meta will cut coding bills from dollars to pennies for developers who let the company learn from their work.

The AI Engineering Skills Map: Andrew Ng and DeepLearning.AI Present the Essential Skills Every AI Engineer Needs in 2026

I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map. AI allows us to build software very differently today than in 2022, and everyone with the skills to take advantage of this shift has numerous exciting project and job opportunities.

The AI Engineering Skills Map from Andrew Ng

The Batch News & Insights: I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map.

Custom Prompts for Safer Code: A Stanford team built a pipeline to improve system prompts to build more secure code

Large language models (LLMs) can write useful code, but they often introduce security vulnerabilities.

Fresh Data for Coding Models: Hugging Face updated The Stack, the largest crawl of public GitHub repositories

The biggest open dataset of source code went years without an update.

Claude Weakens a Quantum Lock: Anthropic engineers used Claude Mythos to identify cryptographic weaknesses in HAWK and AES

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been testing quantum-proof replacements for today’s encryption algorithms.

DeepSeek Pushes the Frontier Again: DeepSeek refreshed its V4 Flash model with an impressive fine-tune

DeepSeek’s updated small model overtook the company’s own flagship.

What Comes After Tokenmaxxing?: How to avoid getting locked in to just one AI provider

I’m glad the idea of “tokenmaxxing” — that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity — is finally dying out.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Outshines Pro, The Biggest GitHub Crawl Yet, Engineering System Prompts for Safer Code

The Batch News & Insights: I’m glad the idea of “tokenmaxxing” — that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity — is finally dying out.