Hardware
Proactive AI Assistance for Phones: Inside Magic Cue, Google’s new AI assistant for Pixel 10
Google’s latest smartphone sports an AI assistant that anticipates the user’s needs and presents helpful information without prompting.
Latest
Data Points
Perplexity offers AI news subscription plan: Nvidia Nano 2 employs Mamba for speed
Cohere’s new reasoning mode for open-weights Command A. Hacking MCP to turn Claude into an image generator. Google’s new AI deal with the U.S. government. Meta’s partnership with image generator Midjourney.
Data Points
DeepSeek releases a hybrid reasoning model: OpenAI unveils a new subscription plan for India
Alibaba’s new text and image editing features. Adobe’s tool to chat with your PDFs and other docs. Browsemaster, a new framework for agentic search. Surya, an IBM/NASA model that predicts solar weather.
Letters
How Non-Coders Built 5 Software Products in 6½ Hours: At Buildathon on August 16, coders and non-coders alike showed how much AI is changing software development.
On Saturday at the Buildathon [http://buildathon.ai] hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI, over 100 developers competed to build software products quickly using AI assisted coding.
The Batch Newsletter
China Questions Nvidia, When Models Memorize, Mixture of Video Experts, OpenAI & Oracle Join Forces
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Saturday at the Buildathon [http://buildathon.ai] hosted by AI Fund and DeepLearning.AI, over 100 developers competed to build software products quickly using AI assisted coding.
Machine Learning Research
Does Your Model Generalize or Memorize: Researchers find models with more parameters copy more bits from training sets
Benchmarks can measure how well large language models apply what they’ve learned from their training data to new data, but it’s harder to measure the degree to which they simply memorized their training data. New work proposes a way to gauge memorization.
Business
OpenAI Turns to Oracle for Compute: A new $30 billion, 4.5 gigawatt data center offshoot of the Stargate Project
OpenAI is working with Oracle to build its next chunk of processing power, a $30 billion outgrowth of the partners’ $500 billion Stargate project and a sign of OpenAI’s ongoing thirst for computation.
Machine Learning Research
Mixture of Video Experts: Alibaba’s Wan 2.2 video models adopt a new architecture to sort noisy from less-noisy inputs
The mixture-of-experts approach that has boosted the performance of large language models may do the same for video generation.
Business
China Reconsiders U.S. AI Processors: Nvidia and AMD must reassure China their high-end GPUs don't pose security risk
Nvidia and AMD, having obtained the U.S. government’s permission to resume selling AI processors in China, received a cool welcome there.
Data Points
Tencent’s new hybrid approach to images: Text adventures test models’ memories
How to manage multiple Claude Code sessions. Reddit’s standoff with the Internet Archive. A new framework for developing open computer-use agents. Using AI to kill antibiotic-resistant germs.
Data Points
Google’s latest Gemma model is a power-saver: Claude boosts Sonnet 4’s input limits
Building a more interpretable robot. OpenAI’s latest gold medal programming performance. Extracting structured data from big texts. Anthropic adds learning modes to Claude Code.
Machine Learning Research
Training Data for Coding Assistants: Stanford and Alibaba build bug fixing dataset and pipeline to train AI
A bottleneck in fine-tuning large language models for software engineering is building a dataset that can show them how to edit code, search for subroutines, write test scripts, control a terminal, manage a file system, and so on. Researchers built a pipeline that produces such data automatically.