Business
How to Comply With the EU’s AI Act: EU issues code of practice to help AI developers follow AI Act regulations
The European Union published guidelines to help builders of AI models to comply with the AI Act, which wasenacted last year.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Research
Born To Be Agentic: Moonshot releases Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter model fine-tuned for agentic tool use
An agent’s performance depends not only on an effective workflow but also on a large language model that excels at agentic activities. A new open-weights model focuses on those capabilities.
Business
Powers Realign in AI-Assisted Coding: Google, Cognition carve up Windsurf after OpenAI’s failed $3B acquisition bid
A $3 billion bid by OpenAI to acquire Windsurf, maker of the AI-assisted integrated development environment of the same name, collapsed at the 11th hour, setting off a tumultuous few days of corporate maneuvering.
Data Points
OpenAI agentic system places second to human programmer in international coding competition: Pentagon signs $200 million deals with Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI
How Google’s experimental text embedding model achieves top performance on a multilingual embedding benchmark. How AWS Bedrock AgentCore provides infrastructure for enterprise-grade AI agents. How Anthropic’s Claude for Financial Services enables AI-driven financial systems.
Letters
How to Get Through the Product Management Bottleneck: As AI-assisted coding accelerates building software products, deciding what to build is a new bottleneck. Speedy decisions and empathy for users can get past it.
The invention of modern writing instruments like the typewriter made writing easier, but they also led to the rise of writer’s block, where deciding what to write became the bottleneck.
The Batch Newsletter
Grok Raises Questions, Meta Poaches Talent, California Reframes AI Regulations, Multi-Agent Systems Get Stronger
The Batch AI News and Insights: The invention of modern writing instruments like the typewriter made writing easier, but they also led to the rise of writer’s block, where deciding what to write became the bottleneck.
Tech & Society
California Reframes AI Regulations: California proposes new guidelines to balance AI innovation and regulation
A committee convened by California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed principles intended to balance AI innovation with careful governance. The group sought to rethink AI regulation after Newsom vetoed earlier proposed legislation.
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.
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.