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Data Points

Meta’s got a brand new herd: Gemini 2.5 Pro gets a price tag

Microsoft personalizes its multitasking Copilot. Midjourney overhauls its leading image model. An early vibe coding entrant reenters a crowded field. A cybersecurity-optimized version of Gemini.

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Data Points

OpenAI promises a more open model: Runway seeks to stabilize scenes in AI video

Amazon gets into browser use with Nova Act. Claude goes back to school with program for higher ed. Google becomes a harder place for AI researchers to publish. Evaluating models’ ability to replicate cutting-edge AI research.

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Letters

The Benefits of Lazy Prompting: You don’t always need to provide context when prompting a large language model. A quick prompt can be enough.

Contrary to standard prompting advice that you should give LLMs the context they need to succeed, I find it’s sometimes faster to be lazy and dash off a quick, imprecise prompt and see what happens.

The Batch Newsletter

Open Voice-to-Voice With Vision, ChatGPT Creates Emotional Bonds, Human Action in 3D, Web Scrapers Caught in Maze

The Batch AI News and Insights: Contrary to standard prompting advice that you should give LLMs the context they need to succeed, I find it’s sometimes faster to be lazy and dash off a quick, imprecise prompt and see what happens.

3D scene comparison of human-object interaction for ZeroHSI, LINGO, and CHOIS models in a synthetic indoor environment.

Machine Learning Research

Human Action in 3D: Stanford researchers use generated video to animate 3D interactions without motion capture

AI systems designed to generate animated 3D scenes that include active human characters have been limited by a shortage of training data, such as matched 3D scenes and human motion-capture examples. Generated video clips can get the job done without motion capture.

AI-generated faces depicting various human emotions, with labeled emotional states shown in a grid-style layout.

Tech & Society

Chatbot Use Creates Emotional Bonds: ChatGPT may ease loneliness but increase dependence, studies suggest

A pair of papers investigate how increasingly human-like chatbots affect users’ emotions.

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Tech & Society

Scraping the Web? Beware the Maze: Cloudflare’s AI Labyrinth traps scrapers with decoy pages

Bots that scrape websites for AI training data often ignore do-not-crawl requests. Now web publishers can enforce such appeals by luring scrapers to AI-generated decoy pages.

Mochi-style illustrated characters with diverse facial expressions used for AI emotion recognition visualizations.

Machine Learning Research

Interactive Voice-to-Voice With Vision: MoshiVis adds image understanding to voice-first conversations

Researchers updated the highly responsive Moshi voice-to-voice model to discuss visual input.

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Data Points

Adapting R1-like techniques to video reasoning: Anthropic builds an “AI microscope” to probe Claude’s internal anatomy

How Alibaba built its compact but powerful video generation models. Towards a unified text-image diffusion model. A new approach to vision-language understanding from Alibaba. Microsoft adapts OpenAI models to build data workforce agents.

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Data Points

Gemini 2.5 Pro takes the top spot on key benchmarks: GPT-4o’s popular but controversial new image generator

DeepSeek updates its V3 model with new skills and MIT license. Reve Image 1.0 excels at text and typography design. Qwen2.5-Omni tackles text. Images, audio, and video. Software developers have tried AI, but some like it better.

Visual model aligning diffusion embeddings with DINOv2 encoders using REPA and DiT/SiT blocks.

Machine Learning Research

Faster Learning for Diffusion Models: Pretrained embeddings accelerate diffusion transformers’ learning

Diffusion transformers learn faster when they can look at embeddings generated by a pretrained model like DINOv2.

AI tutoring system interface showing real-time context integration, privacy, and expert-like feedback generation.

Tech & Society

LLM Support for Tutors: GPT-4 boosts remote tutors’ performance in real time, study finds

Students benefit from tutoring, but training tutors is expensive. A study shows that large language models can boost tutors’ effectiveness in real time.