Robots That Adapt to New Tasks: Sony and university researchers train robots to learn without catastrophic forgetting
Neural networks can forget how to perform earlier tasks as they learn new ones.
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AI at Work, Quantified: Gallup poll shows AI boosts productivity, but many workers haven't tried it
Half of workers in the United States used AI at work at least a few times last year, a sign of steadily rising AI adoption in U.S. workplaces.
How Nvidia Uses AI to Design Chips: Chipmaker's models design circuits, verify designs, and test new layouts
Nvidia’s chief scientist dreams of telling an AI model to design a new GPU, then skiing for a couple days while the system does the job.
ByteDance Bids for Video Leadership: ByteDance adds state-of-the-art Seedance 2.0 video to Capcut, while OpenAI retreats
As OpenAI prepares to shut down Sora, ByteDance made its own video generation model available to hundreds of millions of users.
Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget
The Batch AI News and Insights: There will be no AI jobpocalypse.
AI Will Not Destroy the Job Market: Here's why fear of an AI “jobpocaypse” is overblown.
There will be no AI jobpocalypse.
US government to vet new models: ChatGPT gets a model refresh
Anthropic’s latest products for banking and finance. Drug manufacturers get AI gains they didn’t expect. US military augments Anthropic with new partners. Google DeepMind’s UK unionization vote.
China shuts down Manus acquisition: All the details from Microsoft’s new deal with OpenAI
Nvidia’s laptop-sized omnimodal model. Grok cuts prices, boosts context. OpenAI’s AGI principles. IBM’s latest suite of open Granite models.
Learn foundational prompting techniques in AI Prompting For Everyone!: Whatever your skill level, AI Prompting For Everyone teaches the best ways to prompt ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other models.
The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out.
Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans: Researchers at UT-Austin and Google model human decision-making in Rock-Paper-Scissors
While large language models can behave in human-like ways, the similarities are superficial. A simple strategy game revealed clear differences in their strategic approaches.
Kimi K2.6 Challenges Open-Weights Champs: Kimi K2.6 matches open Qwen3.6 Max andDeepSeek V4, falls just behind top closed models.
Moonshot AI’s updated Kimi model handles longer autonomous coding sessions and scales up its multi-agent orchestration relative to its predecessor.
Big AI’s Plans Strain CO2 Pledges: Tech giants including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft acknowledge AI’s strain on environment
Commitments by large AI companies to limit emissions of greenhouse gases are at risk as those companies pursue a massive build-out of data centers, many of which will be powered by fossil fuels in the near term and possibly beyond.
Machine Learning Research
GPT-5.5 Outperforms, Hallucinates: OpenAI’s latest model tops leaderboards for coding, visual puzzles, and overall intelligence
The latest update of OpenAI’s flagship model sets new states of the art in important benchmarks but has difficulty distinguishing between what it does and doesn't know.
The Batch Newsletter
GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans
The Batch AI News and Insights: The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out.
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OpenAI and Microsoft sever their exclusive relationship: DeepSeek V4 makes a smaller splash
Google’s and Amazon’s huge bets on Anthropic. Google employees’ resistance to secret government use of AI. The U.S. threat to punish Chinese companies that distill U.S. AI models. An agentic system that autonomously designed a working CPU.
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Insurance companies carve out exceptions for AI risks: U.S. military re-engages with Anthropic
A San Francisco retail store run by an AI agent. OpenAI’s specialized life-sciences model. Anthropic’s designs on the market for graphic design. Wall Street’s AI-driven workforce adjustments.
Machine Learning Research
Assistants That Assist Consistently: Large language models can drift drift from helpful personas to harmful ones, but new research aims to stabilize them
Typically, large language models are trained to act as helpful, harmless, honest assistants. However, during long or emotionally charged conversations, traits can emerge that are less beneficial. Researchers devised a way to steady the assistant personas of LLMs.
Tech & Society
Anti-Data-Center Revolt Gains Traction: Public opposition to construction of new data centers in the U.S. has spurred political action and violence
Resistance to new data centers is mounting across the United States.
Machine Learning Research
Humanoid Robots Work Factory Floors: Agiliy Digits humanoid robots fetch and carry bins at a Schaeffler auto-parts factory, displacing humans into higher-level jobs
A small number of humanoid robots have made their way into industrial settings, where they’re roughly matching the cost of human labor and propelling some workers into higher-level roles.
Machine Learning Research
GLM 5.1 Aims for Long-Running Tasks: Z.ai’s GLM 5.1 evaluates interim results and may change its approach hundreds of times before it delivers final output
Z.ai updated its flagship open-weights large language model to work autonomously on single tasks for up to eight hours.
Letters
Coding Agents Accelerate Some Software Tasks More Than Others: Knowing how much coding agents accelerate different software-development tasks can help you put together the fastest teams
Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees.
The Batch Newsletter
GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work
The Batch AI News and Insights: Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees.
Data Points
Hackers break into Claude Mythos: OpenAI launches a security-specialized competitor to Mythos
Maine votes to pause construction of data centers. Journalists at major U.S. newspapers push back on publisher’s demand to use AI. AI-generated talking-head videos that support President Trump flood social media. Humanoid robots outrun human world record in a half-marathon race.
Letters
AI-Native Software Development Needs Generalists: As AI accelerates software development, teammates must play a wider variey of roles
AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams.