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Data Points

DeepSWE claims to measure agents better: Pope Leo XIV calls for AI to “disarm,” consider humanity

DeepSeek’s permanent V4 price cuts. MAI-Image-2.5, currently third on the Arena Leaderboard. Mythos-1’s remarkable security skills. How MCP will change later this year

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Data Points

Qwen3.7-Max, China’s latest top model: OpenAI model disproves key math conjecture

Nvidia’s Gated DeltaNet-2, its latest attention alternative. Trump calls off executive order regulating U.S. AI models. Microsoft’s benchmark-topping suite of computer use agents. Cohere’s Command-A+, a local alternative to big cloud AI.

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Machine Learning Research

Toward Agent Benchmarks That Reflect Human Work: AI agents may not be getting better at full range of economically valuable labor

AI agents seem to be increasingly capable of performing economically valuable tasks, but current benchmarks measure this capability only narrowly.

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Machine Learning Research

Cybersecurity Alarms Grow Louder: Google study shows LLM-generated malware is getting harder to track and stop

An AI-generated script to bypass two-factor authentication signals a dawning era of industrial-scale cyberattacks, according to a Google report.

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Machine Learning Research

Built-In Conversational Interactivity: Thinking Machines reveals its first interaction model, a new type of multimodal AI

Conversational models typically wait for a turn before they respond.

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Machine Learning Research

Hermes Agent Challenges OpenClaw: OpenClaw created a class of personal agents; upstart Hermes Agent is outworking it

OpenClaw, the immensely popular AI agent, has fast-rising competition.

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Letters

Why Giving More Students A's Can Be a Good Thing: Harvard wants to award fewer A’s to counter grade inflation, but education should be about helping students succeed.

Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class.

The Batch Newsletter

Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?

The Batch AI News and Insights: Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class.

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Data Points

Cursor Composer undercuts competition: All the top news from Google’s I/O event

Google’s remade Antigravity, an alternative to IDEs. Omni Flash, Gemini’s voice-to-video generator. Google’s AI overhaul of web search. Corti’s Symphony, a specialist in medical transcription.

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Data Points

Anthropic passes OpenAI in business adoption: Cerebras stock debut makes more AI billionaires

Europe’s new media licensing initiative. ArXiv’s defenses against AI-assisted mistakes. The Mythos effect on financial institutions. Ukraine’s evolving drone and data strategy.

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Machine Learning Research

AI Mammogram Diagnosis Under Real-World Conditions: Two studies test Google's breast cancer detection models in clinics

Introduced in 2020, Google’s AI system for detecting breast cancer in mammograms still hasn't been used to diagnose current patients.

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Business

China Nixes Meta-Manus Tie-Up: State regulators block acquisition of an agentic startup headquarted in Singapore

China shut down Meta’s attempt to acquire agentic technology that originated within its borders, a blow to further technical interchange and investment between China and the U.S.