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The Batch Newsletter

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

The Batch AI News and Insights: Automated software testing is growing in importance in the era of AI-assisted coding.

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Data Points

Qwen pilots new attention mechanisms: Who uses ChatGPT and why? Answers from a new study

Replit’s self-testing updates to Agent 3. Stable Audio speeds up custom sounds for enterprise. Google’s plan to spread paid Gemini plans worldwide. Zoox’s unusual robotaxis hit the road in Las Vegas.

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Data Points

Claude corners the market on office docs: A path to training AI models on copyrighted music

Why Anthropic’s books copyright deal is postponed. The U.S. government’s new AI youth safety investigation. Seedream 4.0, Bytedance’s new image model. Jupyter Agent 2, a set of tools for solving data science problems.

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Letters

Knowledge Is Great, Skills Are Greater: Educators are shifting from teaching knowledge to teaching practical skills. A report from the Coursera Connect conference

This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.

The Batch Newsletter

Stronger Chatbot Guardrails, Weaker Google Monopoly, AI-Assisted Education, 10 Million Tokens of Context

The Batch AI News and Insights: This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.

Diagram comparing sliding window attention and ATLAS memory, showing wider context tracking in ATLAS.

Machine Learning Research

10 Million Tokens of Input Context: ATLAS, a transformer-like architecture, can process a context window as large as ten million tokens

An alternative to attention enables large language models to track relationships among words across extraordinarily wide spans of text.

Students at Alpha School working on laptops during AI-assisted personalized learning session.

Tech & Society

2 Hours With AI Versus 6 With Teacher: Inside Alpha School, a Texas-based program using algorithms and video monitors to teach children

A growing private school system replaces the typical 6-hour school day with 2 hours of personalized, AI-assisted education.

Infographic showing Google antitrust ruling: must share search index, syndicate results, and allow non-exclusive deals.

Business

Google Must Share Data With AI Rivals: Google must share its search index, but can keep Chrome and Android

AI companies that aspire to compete with Google in search and other information-retrieval applications got a boost from the United States government.

AI chatbot interfaces showing tour guide, outdoor adventurer, and custom characters as Meta and OpenAI add safety controls.

Tech & Society

Meta, OpenAI Reinforce Guardrails: Meta and OpenAI respond to criticism by adding new rules for teens’ chatbot use

Meta and OpenAI promised to place more controls on their chatbots’ conversations with children and teenagers, as worrisome interactions with minors come under increasing scrutiny.

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Data Points

Anthropic copyright suit settled for $1.5 billion: Why AI models hallucinate and how to fix them

Qwen3-Max, Alibaba’s giant, capable new model. Grok-code-fast, xAI’s new free coding agent. Google’s deals to supply TPUs to other cloud providers. Projects, ChatGPT’s newly free organizational feature.

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Data Points

Swiss model Apertus discloses code, datasets: AI content labels now mandatory on Chinese platforms

Hermes, a model trained to reason and follow instructions. Tencent’s new explorable 3D world framework. OpenAI’s new jobs and certification programs. Warner Bros’s lawsuit against Midjourney.

Comic showing tech interviews: 2022 asks “Can you code FizzBuzz?” vs 2025 asks “Can you build an e-commerce platform?”

Letters

AI Skills Are Redefining What Makes a Great Developer: The job market for software developers requires knowing how to use AI

There is significant unmet demand for developers who understand AI.