Business
ChatGPT Shows Ads: OpenAI tests advertisements for U.S. chatbot users in free and lower-cost tiers
AI has a new revenue stream, and it looks a lot like old web banner ads.
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Letters
From AI Experiments to AI Products: Experiemental projects can reveal AI powered-opportunities, but building AI-powered products often requires redesigning workflows.
How can businesses go beyond using AI for incremental efficiency gains to create transformative impact?
The Batch Newsletter
Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple’s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto
The Batch AI News and Insights: How can businesses go beyond using AI for incremental efficiency gains to create transformative impact?
Data Points
An AI system to identify teen ChatGPT users: GLM-4.7-Flash, a top 30B parameter model, is free to use
Persona drift: how prompts can enable bad behavior. X’s transformer-based personalization algorithm. How Cursor agents built a working web browser in a week. Expanding ChatGPT and model access for students.
Data Points
OpenAI launches ChatGPT Go worldwide: Anthropic sees AI failure as an economic bottleneck
GLM-Image, an open-weights hybrid image model. TranslateGemma, Google’s fast translation model. Wikipedia’s new partnerships with AI companies. FLUX.2 [klein], a noncommercial image model for consumer hardware.
Letters
Data Centers Are Easier on the Environment Than You Might Think: How environmentally friendly are AI data centers? If we're going to use AI, there’s no better way to do it.
Many people are fighting the growth of data centers because they could increase CO2 emissions, electricity prices, and water use.
Machine Learning Research
Retrieval Faces Hard Limits: Google and Johns Hopkins researchers show embedding models can’t search unlimited documents
Can your retriever find all the relevant documents for any query your users might enter? Maybe not, research shows.
Business
Meta Moves to Buy Agent Tech: Meta strikes a deal to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based agentic AI startup with Chinese origins
A high-profile acquisition could enable Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to offer built-in agents that do users’ bidding.
Business
AI Giants Vie for Healthcare Dollars: OpenAI and Anthropic release new chatbots targeting medical and wellness markets
OpenAI and Anthropic staked claims in the lucrative healthcare market, each company playing to its strengths by targeting different audiences.
Tech & Society
Undressed Images Spur Regulators: X rolls back Grok’s “spicy” image generation on the platform after global outrage
Governments worldwide sounded alarms after xAI’s Grok chatbot generated tens of thousands of sexualized images of girls and women without their consent.
The Batch Newsletter
Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval
The Batch AI News and Insights: Many people are fighting the growth of data centers because they could increase CO2 emissions, electricity prices, and water use.
Data Points
Cowork, Claude Code’s non-coding cousin: Apple and Google’s new AI partnership
Anthropic’s play for the healthcare market. UCP, a new standard for agentic shopping. Malaysia and Indonesia’s stand against Grok. DeepSeek’s new memory management method.