Machine Learning Research
Reasoning for No Reason: Anthropic finds chain-of-thought reasoning traces may omit key influences
Does a reasoning model’s chain of thought explain how it arrived at its output? Researchers found that often it doesn’t.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Science
AI Weather Prediction Gains Traction: U.S. working with Google Weather Lab AI to improve storm forecasts
The U.S. government is using AI to predict the paths of hurricanes.
Business
Amazon’s Constellation of Compute: Amazon plans to spend tens of billions on AI infrastructure with Project Rainier
Amazon revealed new details of its plan to build a constellation of massive data centers and connect them into an “ultracluster.” Customer Number One: Anthropic.
Letters
Short of Time to Build With AI? Simplify Your Projects: Scale down your AI projects into something you can execute quickly. Then collect feedback from users to sharpen your ideas.
I’d like to share a tip for getting more practice building with AI — that is, either using AI building blocks to build applications or using AI coding assistance to create powerful applications quickly.
The Batch Newsletter
Amazon’s $100 Billion Bet, Meta’s Sensor-Packed Glasses, Anthropic’s Reason-Free Reasoning, Google’s Extreme Weather Prediction
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’d like to share a tip for getting more practice building with AI — that is, either using AI building blocks to build applications or using AI coding assistance to create powerful applications quickly.
Letters
A Major Risk to AI Development Just Decreased: A U.S. federal judge ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted works is fair use. AI models are free to learn from books just like people are.
On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
The Batch Newsletter
Judge Rules Training AI on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use, Agentic Biology Evolves, Meta Befriends Alexandr Wang
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
Machine Learning Research
Low Precision, High Performance: Researchers at Microsoft and Tsinghua researchers propose 1.58-bit AI model that rivals full-precision competitors
Reducing the number of bits used to represent each parameter in a neural network from, say, 16 bits to 8 bits shrinks the network’s size and boosts its speed. Researchers took this approach to an extreme: They built a competitive large language model whose weights are limited to three values.
Tech & Society
CEOs Look to AI to Replace Workers: Amazon and other major companies say AI will reduce their corporate workforces
Leaders at some of the biggest U.S. corporations say they’re preparing for AI to eliminate many jobs within their organizations.
Machine Learning Research
A Research Agent for All Biology: Biomni, an AI agent for multidisciplinary biology research
An agent designed for broad biological research could accelerate the work of scientists in specialties from anatomy to zoology.
Business
Meta Befriends Scale AI: Meta invests $14.3 billion in Scale AI, hires CEO Alexandr Wang
Meta hired the leadership of ScaleAI and put billions into the data-labeling startup to accelerate its AI efforts.
Data Points
MiniMax M1 tackles Qwen3, DeepSeek-R1, Claude 4 Opus, and more: Gemini 2.5 models get price changes and a new partner
Cursor introduces a new-high end subscription. Harvard makes its public-domain books data set widely available. Essential AI introduces its own auto-labeled data set. MIT builds an LLM that can fine-tune itself.