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Charts showing PromptGuard 2 blocking attacks, AlignmentCheck detecting goal hijacking, and CodeShield finding insecure code.

Machine Learning Research

Cybersecurity for Agents: Meta releases LlamaFirewall, an open-source defense against AI hijacking

Autonomous agents built on large language models introduce distinct security concerns. Researchers designed a system to protect agents from common vulnerabilities.

Google study chart comparing energy use of AI accelerators for Gemini, including chip power, CPU, and idle machines.

Science

Gemini’s Environmental Impact Measured: Google study directly measures electricity, water use, and greenhouse emissions of its models

Google determined that its large language models have a smaller environmental footprint than previous estimates had led it to expect.

Hangzhou skyline with modern skyscrapers, the golden sphere of Intercontinental Hotel, and the silver dome of Qianjiang complex.

Business

China’s Emerging AI Hub: Inside DeepSeek and the other "little dragons" transforming Hangzhou into China's Silicon Valley

Hangzhou, a longtime manufacturing hub in eastern China, is blossoming into a center of AI innovation.

Bar charts comparing AI and human interviewers show higher rates for AI across job offers, job starts, and one-month retention.

AI Careers

Chatbot Interviewers Fill More Jobs: Study shows AI agent interviewers improve hiring, retention in customer service jobs

Large language models may have advantages over human recruiters when conducting job interviews, a study shows.

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Data Points

Microsoft’s first MAI foundation models: Latam-GPT, an LLM optimized with regional data

Anthropic and OpenAI’s audits of each others’ models. Claude’s opt-out training data policies. ChatGPT’s responses to mental health crises. Alibaba’s new AI inference chip.

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Data Points

Google’s Nano Banana hits the scene: OpenAI’s latest voice-to-voice model

Anthropic’s browser use extension preview. Automation hits entry-level workers first. Reinforcement Learning from Checklist Feedback. Authors settle copyright lawsuit over pirated books.

Cartoon robots with square heads and antennae sit in rows on an assembly line, each smiling while assembling gears, boxes, and tools.

The Batch Newsletter

AI-Powered Phones Get Proactive, Robot Antelope Joins Herd, LLM Environmental Impacts Get Measured

The Batch AI News and Insights: Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.

Letters

Agents Running in Parallel Get There Faster: Parallel agents can accelerate AI systems as test-time compute scales up.

Parallel agents are emerging as an important new direction for scaling up AI. AI capabilities have scaled with more training data, training-time compute, and test-time compute.

Table comparing DINO, DINOv2, DINOv3, SigLIP 2, and PE on segmentation, depth estimation, tracking, and classification tasks.

Machine Learning Research

Better Image Processing Through Self-Supervised Learning: Meta’s DINOv3 gets an updated loss term and improved vision performance

DINOv2 showed that a vision transformer pretrained on unlabeled images could produce embeddings that are useful for a wide variety of tasks. Now it has been updated to improve the performance of its embeddings in segmentation and other vision tasks.

Researcher adjusts sensors on a quadruped robot disguised as a Tibetan antelope in a high-altitude reserve.

Robotics

Robot Antelope Joins Herd: Chinese scientists disguise modified robot dog as antelope to study herd behavior

Researchers in China disguised a quadruped robot as a Tibetan antelope to help study the animals close-up.

Infographic showing Mistral Large 2’s environmental impact across emissions, water, and material use.

Science

Mistral Measures LLM Consumption of Energy, Water, and Materials: French AI startup discloses full lifecycle consumption and emissions for Mistral Large 2

The French AI company Mistral measured the environmental impacts of its flagship large language model.

Hand holding a Pixel 10 smartphone using Google’s Magic Cue AI assistant, which suggests a location reply in a text message conversation.

Hardware

Proactive AI Assistance for Phones: Inside Magic Cue, Google’s new AI assistant for Pixel 10

Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.