How Google’s experimental text embedding model achieves top performance on a multilingual embedding benchmark. How AWS Bedrock AgentCore provides infrastructure for enterprise-grade AI agents. How Anthropic’s Claude for Financial Services enables AI-driven financial systems.
The invention of modern writing instruments like the typewriter made writing easier, but they also led to the rise of writer’s block, where deciding what to write became the bottleneck.
The Batch AI News and Insights: The invention of modern writing instruments like the typewriter made writing easier, but they also led to the rise of writer’s block, where deciding what to write became the bottleneck.
A committee convened by California Governor Gavin Newsom proposed principles intended to balance AI innovation with careful governance. The group sought to rethink AI regulation after Newsom vetoed earlier proposed legislation.
Publicly reported compensation for AI talent has skyrocketed in the wake of Meta’s recent hiring spree.
Researchers addressed weaknesses in existing multi-agent frameworks. Their systems achieved scientific and technical breakthroughs.
xAI updated its Grok vision-language model and published impressive benchmark results. But, like earlier versions, Grok 4 showed questionable behavior right out of the gate.
How Tencent Hunyuan-A13B offers advanced features and performance in a limited open-weights release. How Alibaba’s Qwen VLo interprets, generates, and alters images. How Hugging Face’s $299–$449 Reachy Mini extends open robotics. How AI saved $500 million at Microsoft.
Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
Developing an agent that navigates the web can involve a lot of human effort spent annotating training examples to fine-tune the agent’s LLM component. Scientists automated the production of data that fine-tuned LLMs effectively for web tasks.
The world’s biggest retailer by revenue revealed new details about its cloud- and model-agnostic AI application development platform.
Science
An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.
Machine Learning Research
Top large language models, under experimental conditions that pressed them to choose between abandoning their prompted mission and misbehaving, resorted to harmful behavior, researchers found.
Data Points
How Baidu’s newly open-sourced Ernie model puts competitive pressure on rivals. How Cloudflare’s new pay-per-crawl service could boost the cost of training data. How HongShan’s periodically updated Xbench gives developers a business-focused test for evaluating models.
Hardware
Meta revealed new details about its latest Aria eyeglasses, which aim to give AI models a streaming, multisensory, human perspective.
Machine Learning Research
Does a reasoning model’s chain of thought explain how it arrived at its output? Researchers found that often it doesn’t.
Science
The U.S. government is using AI to predict the paths of hurricanes.
Business
Amazon revealed new details of its plan to build a constellation of massive data centers and connect them into an “ultracluster.” Customer Number One: Anthropic.
Letters
I’d like to share a tip for getting more practice building with AI — that is, either using AI building blocks to build applications or using AI coding assistance to create powerful applications quickly.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’d like to share a tip for getting more practice building with AI — that is, either using AI building blocks to build applications or using AI coding assistance to create powerful applications quickly.
Letters
On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
Machine Learning Research
Reducing the number of bits used to represent each parameter in a neural network from, say, 16 bits to 8 bits shrinks the network’s size and boosts its speed. Researchers took this approach to an extreme: They built a competitive large language model whose weights are limited to three values.