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Business meeting discussing AI liability claims with executives, documents, graphs on screens, and laptops.

Data Points

Insurance companies carve out exceptions for AI risks: U.S. military re-engages with Anthropic

A San Francisco retail store run by an AI agent. OpenAI’s specialized life-sciences model. Anthropic’s designs on the market for graphic design. Wall Street’s AI-driven workforce adjustments.

A graph shows assistant behavior shifting between helpful and role-playing, with conversation bubbles.

Machine Learning Research

Assistants That Assist Consistently: Large language models can drift drift from helpful personas to harmful ones, but new research aims to stabilize them

Typically, large language models are trained to act as helpful, harmless, honest assistants. However, during long or emotionally charged conversations, traits can emerge that are less beneficial. Researchers devised a way to steady the assistant personas of LLMs.

Aerial view of a large data center with a red prohibition sign overlayed, indicating opposition.

Tech & Society

Anti-Data-Center Revolt Gains Traction: Public opposition to construction of new data centers in the U.S. has spurred political action and violence

Resistance to new data centers is mounting across the United States.

A humanoid robot with teal and white elements handles metal parts in bins on a factory floor.

Machine Learning Research

Humanoid Robots Work Factory Floors: Agility Digits humanoid robots fetch and carry bins at a Schaeffler auto-parts factory, displacing humans into higher-level jobs

A small number of humanoid robots have made their way into industrial settings, where they’re roughly matching the cost of human labor and propelling some workers into higher-level roles.

GLM-5.1 excels in SWE-Bench Pro and Terminal-Bench 2.0, leading in coding and reasoning tests.

Machine Learning Research

GLM-5.1 Aims for Long-Running Tasks: Z.ai’s GLM 5.1 evaluates interim results and may change its approach hundreds of times before it delivers final output

Z.ai updated its flagship open-weights large language model to work autonomously on single tasks for up to eight hours.

The illustration shows a racing dynamic with labeled cars, highlighting various software development stages.

Letters

Coding Agents Accelerate Some Software Tasks More Than Others: Knowing how much coding agents accelerate different software-development tasks can help you put together the fastest teams

Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees.

The Batch Newsletter

GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work

The Batch AI News and Insights: Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees.

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Data Points

Hackers break into Claude Mythos: OpenAI launches a security-specialized competitor to Mythos

Maine votes to pause construction of data centers. Journalists at major U.S. newspapers push back on publisher’s demand to use AI. AI-generated talking-head videos that support President Trump flood social media. Humanoid robots outrun human world record in a half-marathon race.

An engineer spins frantically in a chair, discussing the "swivel-chair bottleneck"; with a colleague.

Letters

AI-Native Software Development Needs Generalists: As AI accelerates software development, teammates must play a wider variey of roles

AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams.

A large data center under construction, featuring server racks, hanging cables, and workmen maintaining equipment.

Data Points

Anthropic’s claims for Claude Mythos raise questions: 40 percent of U.S. data-center projects may be delayed

OpenAI’s big bet on an alternative to Nvidia. Meta’s plan to build a virtual CEO. Financial risks of lending money to companies affected by AI. Luma’s AI-driven film production studio.

Image depicts persona generator creating synthetic personas, with outputs analyzed for diversity metrics.

Machine Learning Research

Simulating Diverse Human Cohorts: Persona generation simulates human characters across a controllable range of points of view

If you want to understand how the public will respond to your offerings, large language models can simulate users who answer questions about capabilities, features, promotions, or prices.

Quilt map of U.S. states with varying shades, some states in black, illustrating AI legislation differences.

Tech & Society

US States Move Forward With AI Laws: Most states are regulating AI despite President Trump’s opposition to state-level laws

U.S. states are continuing to enact laws that regulate AI, despite President Trump’s efforts to discourage state-by-state legislation in favor of national laws.