Machine Learning Research
Robots That Adapt to New Tasks: Sony and university researchers train robots to learn without catastrophic forgetting
Neural networks can forget how to perform earlier tasks as they learn new ones.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
AI Careers
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.
Machine Learning Research
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.
Machine Learning Research
ByteDance Bids for Video Leadership: ByteDance adds state-of-the-art Seedance 2.0 video to Capcut, while OpenAI retreats
As OpenAI prepares to shut down Sora, ByteDance made its own video generation model available to hundreds of millions of users.
The Batch Newsletter
Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget
The Batch AI News and Insights: There will be no AI jobpocalypse.
Letters
AI Will Not Destroy the Job Market: Here's why fear of an AI “jobpocaypse” is overblown.
There will be no AI jobpocalypse.
Data Points
US government to vet new models: ChatGPT gets a model refresh
Anthropic’s latest products for banking and finance. Drug manufacturers get AI gains they didn’t expect. US military augments Anthropic with new partners. Google DeepMind’s UK unionization vote.
Data Points
China shuts down Manus acquisition: All the details from Microsoft’s new deal with OpenAI
Nvidia’s laptop-sized omnimodal model. Grok cuts prices, boosts context. OpenAI’s AGI principles. IBM’s latest suite of open Granite models.
Letters
Learn foundational prompting techniques in AI Prompting For Everyone!: Whatever your skill level, AI Prompting For Everyone teaches the best ways to prompt ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other models.
The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out.
Machine Learning Research
Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans: Researchers at UT-Austin and Google model human decision-making in Rock-Paper-Scissors
While large language models can behave in human-like ways, the similarities are superficial. A simple strategy game revealed clear differences in their strategic approaches.
Machine Learning Research
Kimi K2.6 Challenges Open-Weights Champs: Kimi K2.6 matches open Qwen3.6 Max andDeepSeek V4, falls just behind top closed models.
Moonshot AI’s updated Kimi model handles longer autonomous coding sessions and scales up its multi-agent orchestration relative to its predecessor.
Science
Big AI’s Plans Strain CO2 Pledges: Tech giants including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft acknowledge AI’s strain on environment
Commitments by large AI companies to limit emissions of greenhouse gases are at risk as those companies pursue a massive build-out of data centers, many of which will be powered by fossil fuels in the near term and possibly beyond.