Letters
How to Face Your AI Fears This Year: Introduction to a special Halloween 2026 edition of The Batch
Following our annual tradition, this special Halloween edition of The Batch treats leading AI fears.
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The Batch Newsletter
Zombie Agents, Vampire Models, Witch Hunts, and the Mummy's Curse: AI Fears for Halloween 2026
The Batch News & Insights: Following our annual tradition, this special Halloween edition of The Batch treats leading AI fears.
Data Points
How to read the top model leaderboard: Who pays the most for AI inference and context?
Unlimited OCR2 could be your new scanning model. Genie 4 worries traditional video game developers. OpenAI produces proofs of major science theorems. Post-training method dispenses with human-written datasets.
Data Points
Anthropic’s public filing offers clues to its future: Kimi K3.1 Pro performs among top models overall
RSI’s MoE model has open weights, advances recursion. OpenAI Decisions API opens for general use. Claude Duet agent triages office tasks for paid users. AI radio show gains traction with U.S. Latinos.
Machine Learning Research
A Single Decoder Turns Small Models into Action: TurboVLA turns to a throwback architecture to attend to language and vision
The vision-language-action architecture that increasingly drives robots relies on a large language model to combine visual observations with text instructions before an action decoder produces motor commands.
Machine Learning Research
Nvidia Courts A New Partner: Reflection releases Beam, an open weight model from an independent U.S.-based lab
Reflection AI, a closely-watched, Nvidia-backed U.S. startup, announced its first model.
AI Careers
ChatGPT for Teens Gets a Report Card: OpenAI adds features for youths as studies doubt program's safety and educational impact
OpenAI announced that it would add college-planning and study tools to its under-18 experience.
Machine Learning Research
Meta Releases Wonder, Opens Spark: All about Muse Wonder (API), Muse Wonder Full (subscription), and Muse Spark Open (weights available)
Meta marched all the way back to the AI frontier to offer a Muse model for everyone.
Letters
The Four Ps — A Leadership Framework: How to Manage An AI-Native Engineering Team
What should an engineering leader such as a VP Engineering or an Engineering manager do to help their team become more proficient in AI?
The Batch Newsletter
Meta’s Muse Wonder and Spark Open, Educational Use of ChatGPT, Reflection's Partnership with Nvidia
The Batch News & Insights: What should an engineering leader such as a VP Engineering or an Engineering manager do to help their team become more proficient in AI?
Data Points
Minimax’s M3.1 Flash Cuts Prices: Critical PHP bug found by AI affects majority of web sites
Mercury 3, diffusion-based alternative to Claude Haiku. d1-ultra, a highly accurate decision model. Using OpenAI’s models to rewrite and repair legacy code. llm-d, an all-around optimizer for serving open models.
Data Points
Muse Spark Open leads U.S. open models: Reflection releases weights for Beam, a much-anticipated model
Grok Voice 3.0 leads voice-to-voice benchmarks. Nvidia 3.5 Super VL is faster, more capable than Lightning. DeepSeek-V-4.1-Flash pushes strong update. Meta amends controversial Muse scraping terms.