Data Points
The first working vaccine built by AI. Kimi CLI, Moonshot’s software engineering agent. The White House’s plans for an OpenAI stake. OpenJarvis, an open-source agent that learns on-device.
Machine Learning Research
Fine-tuning large language models on a seemingly benign task that would be useful to writers — expanding plot summaries into paragraphs of polished fiction — causes them to regurgitate substantial portions of books on which they were pretrained.
Tech & Society
An ecosystem of API proxy servers enables AI developers in China to access top U.S. models at deeply discounted prices.
Tech & Society
An AI-powered network of thermal sensors is helping ships avoid collisions with whales.
Machine Learning Research
Alibaba updated its flagship large language model for long-running agentic work, pushing it into the top rank among LLMs built in China.
Letters
There have been intense efforts over the past few years to lobby governments to pass AI laws for regulatory capture or to suppress open source.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: There have been intense efforts over the past few years to lobby governments to pass AI laws for regulatory capture or to suppress open source.
Data Points
How agents think about search. Hermes now a multi-platform desktop app. Qwen3.7-Plus, Alibaba’s midsized cloud model. OpenAI’s latest plugins for Codex.
Data Points
MiniMax M3, the new open-weights champ. Nvidia’s PC superchips. Cosmos 3, an all-modal world/action model. Nvidia’s latest robotics partnerships.
Machine Learning Research
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).
Tech & Society
AI-driven activity on the internet rose sharply last year, a study shows.
Business
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.