Machine Learning Research
Robot Surgeon Cuts and Clips: Doctors at Stanford, Johns Hopkins, and Optosurgical operate on animal organs without human intervention
An autonomous robot performed intricate surgical operations without human intervention.
Analytics DeepLearning.AI
Machine Learning Research
GLM-4.5, an Open, Agentic Contender: Zhipu AI (Z.ai) releases open-weights GLM-4.5 models that perform comparably to the latest from Claude and DeepSeek
The race is on to develop large language models that can drive agentic interactions. Following the one-two punch of Moonshot’s Kimi K2 and Alibaba’s Qwen3-235B-A22B update, China’s Z.ai aims to one-up the competition.
Science
Reasoning Boosts Carbon Emissions: Researchers confirm reasoning models that generate more tokens have a bigger environmental footprint
In the era of reasoning models, delivering better answers to questions has an environmental cost. A new study quantifies the impact.
Machine Learning Research
The Re-Opening of OpenAI: GPT-OSS, OpenAI’s first open-weights models since GPT-2, arrives in 120 billion and 20 billion parameter versions
The “open” is back in play at OpenAI.
Data Points
Google’s AlphaEarth remakes satellite mapping: Falcon supports many languages on hybrid architecture
Black Forest Labs and Krea partner on an “opinionated” image model. Aristotle chatbot combines math reasoning with verification. Microsoft adds Copilot Mode to its Edge browser. Energy-Based Transformers offer alternative for unsupervised learning.
Letters
High Stakes for Nations in the Great AI Race: The U.S. leads in AI, but China is gaining momentum. Democratic countries should remove roadblocks to AI progress so they can build models that support human rights and the rule of law.
There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.
The Batch Newsletter
Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3’s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends
The Batch AI News and Insights: There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.
Machine Learning Research
People With AI Friends Feel Worse: Study shows heavy use of AI companions correlates with lower emotional well-being
People who turn to chatbots for companionship show indications of lower self-reported well-being, researchers found.
Business
U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang
Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.
Machine Learning Research
Qwen3’s Agentic Advance: Inside Alibaba's new open-weights models, including the 480 billion parameter Qwen3-Coder
Less than two weeks after Moonshot’s Kimi K2 bested other open-weights, non-reasoning models in tests related to agentic behavior, Alibaba raised the bar yet again.
Tech & Society
White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation
President Trump set forth principles of an aggressive national AI policy, and he moved to implement them through an action plan and executive orders.
Data Points
GLM-4.5’s high-performing, low-cost open model: Google matches (or beats) OpenAI’s math performance
University presses look to lock in AI licensing deals. Unitree’s new, much less expensive humanoid robot. Nvidia adapts CUDA to work with RISC-V chips. AI can predict ancient Latin inscriptions from fragments.