Science
White House Orders AI for Science: Genesis Mission would share U.S. data and resources with top AI companies
President Trump launched a United States effort to use AI to speed up scientific breakthroughs.
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Machine Learning Research
Claude Does More With Fewer Tokens: Claude Opus 4.5 retakes the coding crown at one-third the price of its predecessor
Claude Opus 4.5, the latest version of Anthropic’s flagship model, extends the earlier version’s strengths in coding, computer use, and agentic workflows while generating fewer tokens.
Data Points
Gemini 3 adds compute-intensive Deep Think: Two famous math problems solved by 10-person AI startup
An executive order that would challenge state AI regulations in the U.S. An 8B parameter open model that shines at coding and math tasks. Publishers’ copyright and trademark lawsuits against Perplexity. Gemini 3 Pro’s ability to visually recognize handwriting from any period.
Data Points
Mistral 3 update adds four new open models: Amazon Nova 2 family competes with low prices, new agents
Nvidia’s open VLA reasoning model for self-driving cars. Hugging Face’s Claude skills pack that fine-tunes language models. LangChain’s LangSmith no-code, all-chat agent builder. MCP Blockly, a project for students to build their own MCP servers.
Letters
Why People Don’t Trust AI and What To Do About It: Recent surveys by Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans distrust AI. The AI community should take this seriously and work to regain public trust.
Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it.
The Batch Newsletter
Meta’s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs’ Virtual Spaces, Baidu’s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams
The Batch AI News and Insights: Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it.
Machine Learning Research
Coordinating Robot Teams: Google DeepMind’s RoboBallet project blends GNNs with RL to drive 8-armed robots
In factories, where teams of robotic arms work in tight spaces, their motions are programmed by hand to keep them from interfering with one another. Researchers automated this programming using graph neural networks trained via reinforcement learning.
Machine Learning Research
Baidu’s Multimodal Bids: Giant Ernie 5 natively generates multiple media; Ernie-4.5-VL-28B-A3B-Thinking tops Vision-Language metrics
Baidu debuted two models: a lightweight, open-weights, vision-language model and a giant, proprietary, multimodal model built to take on U.S. competitors.
Machine Learning Research
Generated, Editable Virtual Spaces: World Labs makes Marble world model public, adds Chisel editing tool
Models that generate 3D spaces typically generate them as users move through them without generating a persistent world to be explored later. A new model produces 3D worlds that can be exported and modified.
Machine Learning Research
Open 3D Generation Pipeline: Meta’s SAM 3 image segmentation models can analyze and create bodies and other objects
Meta’s Segment Anything Model (SAM) image-segmentation model has evolved into an open-weights suite for generating 3D objects. SAM 3 segments images, SAM 3D turns the segments into 3D objects, and SAM 3D Body produces 3D objects of any people among the segments. You can experiment with all three.
Data Points
DeepSeek’s latest open models rival GPT-5.1 and Gemini 3 Pro: Google’s weather prediction model shined in hurricane season
The new MCP spec’s updates for security and long task support. Runway’s new video generation model’s improved physics. The impact of Character.AI blocking minors from chat. Antigravity, Google’s agentic IDE that rivals Cursor and Windsurf.
Data Points
Opus 4.5 drops prices, reclaims coding crown: DeepSeek’s new open-weights math model claims IMO Gold
FLUX.2, a Nano Banana-class open image generator. OpenAI’s third-party web analytics security breach. Genesis Mission, a new U.S. government resource sharing program. Suno’s latest deal with music giant Warner.