Business
Meta Lures Talent With Sky-High Pay: Meta’s hiring spree pushes up salaries for AI engineers higher across the industry
Publicly reported compensation for AI talent has skyrocketed in the wake of Meta’s recent hiring spree.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Research
More Robust Multi-Agent Systems: Researchers improve multi-agent systems by studying how they tend to fail
Researchers addressed weaknesses in existing multi-agent frameworks. Their systems achieved scientific and technical breakthroughs.
Machine Learning Research
Grok 4 Shows Impressive Smarts, Questionable Behavior: Grok 4 launches with benchmark records and idiosyncratic behavior
xAI updated its Grok vision-language model and published impressive benchmark results. But, like earlier versions, Grok 4 showed questionable behavior right out of the gate.
Data Points
European CEOs urge 2-year pause in EU AI Act: DeepSeek-TNG-R1T2-Chimera merges DeepSeek LLMs to cut inference cost in half
How Tencent Hunyuan-A13B offers advanced features and performance in a limited open-weights release. How Alibaba’s Qwen VLo interprets, generates, and alters images. How Hugging Face’s $299–$449 Reachy Mini extends open robotics. How AI saved $500 million at Microsoft.
Letters
How The U.S. “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Shape AI Regulation: State-by-state regulation of AI will create a shifting patchwork of laws that are likely to hamper innovation even as they provide lesser benefits.
Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
The Batch Newsletter
How to Make LLMs Commit Blackmail, Robotic Beehive, Walmart’s AI App Factory, Training Web Agents
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
Machine Learning Research
Generated Data for Training Web Agents: Researchers scale up production of training data for web agents
Developing an agent that navigates the web can involve a lot of human effort spent annotating training examples to fine-tune the agent’s LLM component. Scientists automated the production of data that fine-tuned LLMs effectively for web tasks.
Business
Inside Walmart’s AI App Factory: Walmart’s Element platform for industrial-scale AI app development — a progress report
The world’s biggest retailer by revenue revealed new details about its cloud- and model-agnostic AI application development platform.
Science
Robotic Beehive For Healthier Bees: Beewise’s robotic beehive uses AI to save pollinators.
An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.
Machine Learning Research
Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.
Top large language models, under experimental conditions that pressed them to choose between abandoning their prompted mission and misbehaving, resorted to harmful behavior, researchers found.
Data Points
Meta unites its AI teams under Superintelligence Labs: Google tempts developers with a free, open-source Gemini CLI
How Baidu’s newly open-sourced Ernie model puts competitive pressure on rivals. How Cloudflare’s new pay-per-crawl service could boost the cost of training data. How HongShan’s periodically updated Xbench gives developers a business-focused test for evaluating models.
Hardware
Meta’s Smart Glasses Come Into Focus: Meta reveals further details of Aria Gen 2 smart glasses for multisensory AI research
Meta revealed new details about its latest Aria eyeglasses, which aim to give AI models a streaming, multisensory, human perspective.