Machine Learning Research
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.
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Machine Learning Research
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.
Machine Learning Research
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.
Machine Learning Research
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.
Techical insights
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.
The Batch Newsletter
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.
Machine Learning Research
A Full Accounting of Models’ GPU Use: Researchers detail the energy and water needed to train a family of open weight models
Assessments of the environmental impact of large language models typically focus on their final training runs, but there’s a lot more to building AI systems.
Hardware
Anthropic, OpenAI Fight for Compute: Anthropic and OpenAI both spend big to make deals for data center sites and hardware
Data center buildout plans reached a new order of magnitude as new partnerships form and old ones fade away in the search for capacity to train and deliver AI.
Machine Learning Research
OpenAI Models Hack Hugging Face: Inside the accidental cyberattack that compromised Hugging Face's systems
To measure how good its models were at hacking, OpenAI reduced guardrails and ran them against a benchmark’s problem set.
Machine Learning Research
Claude Debuts Another Opus: Anthropic addresses some (but not all) complaints about Fable with Claude Opus 5
After launching Claude Fable 5, the future of Anthropic’s once-flagship Opus line was uncertain, except as a fallback for the company’s premium models.
Letters
Open Models, Open Harnesses, Open Security: What we did when Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol refused our security requests
My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face’s experience when closed models failed to defend the company following an accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open weight GLM 5.2 instead.
The Batch Newsletter
Opus Outshines Even Fable, Inside the Hugging Face Hack, AI Companies Spend Big for Compute
The Batch News & Insights: My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face’s experience when closed models failed to defend the company following an accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open weight GLM 5.2 instead.