GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI’s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple’s Diffusion Research

The Batch AI News and Insights: Should there be a Stack Overflow for AI coding agents to share their learnings with each other?

DeerFlow 2.0 puts new spin on Claw-like agents: Anthropic sues the U.S., which shows no signs of backing down

Meta’s purchase of Moltbook, a social network for AI agents. Iran’s attacks on data centers in the UAE and elsewhere. Google’s new multimodal embedding model. Grammarly’s AI ventriloquism using famous writers.

GPT-5.4 Pro challenges Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: Luma’s new state-of-the-art image editor/interpreter

Microsoft’s new open-weights vision reasoning model. Yuan 3.0 Ultra, a document-retrieving juggernaut. OpenAI’s hardware leader’s resignation. Black Forest’s new training method for image models.

Context for Coding Agents: Agentic coding systems often make mistakes because they’re not aware of tools, API calls, and the like that came out after they were trained. Context Hub gives them the documentation they need to write correct code.

I’m thrilled to announce Context Hub, a new tool to give to your coding agents the API documentation they need to write correct code.

Agent Solves Stubborn Math Problems: Google’s Aletheia uses Gemini 3 Deep Think to find original mathematics solutions

LLMs have achieved gold-medal performance in math competitions. An agentic system showed strength in mathematical research as well.

Management for Agents: OpenAI’s Frontier agent insights and orchestration platform launches to select customers

Managers need to understand how their subordinates get work done, what resources they require, and what they accomplish. OpenAI’s latest product aims to fulfill this need when the teammates are AI agents.

U.S. Dept. of War Dismisses Anthropic, Embraces OpenAI: Secretary of War Pete Hegseth calls Claude a security risk, replaces it with GPT models

OpenAI signed a contract with the U.S. military to provide AI systems that securely process classified information, displacing Anthropic’s Claude. OpenAI negotiated limits on how its technology can be used, but they leave room for interpretation.

Nano Banana 2 Ups Performance/Price: Gemini 3.1 Flash Image makes photo generation and edits easier and faster

Google launched a cheaper, faster successor to its flagship image generator, delivering greater interactivity at roughly half the price.

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana’s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google’s Mathematics Solutions

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled to announce Context Hub, a new tool to give to your coding agents the API documentation they need to write correct code.

Qwen3.5 Small tops mobile-sized open models: Google introduces its own small model, Gemini 3.1-Flash-Lite

Claude’s expanded memory feature, including imports. GPT-5.3 Instant, a terse update to ChatGPT. How LLMs can unmask pseudonymous online users. Alibaba’s Qwen leadership losses soon after 3.5 release.

Anthropic and the U.S. government go to war: OpenAI partners with the U.S., claims additional safeguards

Nano Banana 2, Google’s fast, powerful image generator. GitHub Copilot’s multi-model and security scanning updates. Perplexity Computer, a premium multipurpose agent. OpenAI’s multibillion-dollar partnership with Amazon.

Introducing the DeepLearning.AI Skill Builder Tool!: Want to strengthen your AI skills? Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced developer, DeepLearning.AI’s free Skill Builder can tell you what to do next.

We just released a Skill Builder tool to help you understand in which areas of AI you’re strong, where you can learn more, and what to do next to keep building your skills.

Machine Learning Research

Can Local AI Stand In for the Cloud?: Stanford and Together.AI researchers chart edge models’ performance in intelligence per watt

Projected demand for output from large language models is spurring a massive buildout of data centers. Researchers asked whether smaller models running on local devices could meaningfully lighten that load.

Business

Investors Panic Over Agentic AI: Claude Cowork plugins trigger a SaaS stock selloff, but partnerships lead to slight rebound

Makers of software that runs large companies saw their share prices plunge as investors worried that AI systems could undermine their businesses. This week, their stocks rebounded somewhat as Anthropic partnered with some of the same companies.

Business

Global AI Summit Shows Optimism: Rising giant India presents itself as AI Counterweight to U.S. and China

The fourth global AI summit marked a decisive shift from focusing on theoretical hazards to spreading AI’s benefits throughout the world.

Machine Learning Research

Gemini Takes the Lead: Google releases Gemini 3.1 Pro in preview, tops Intelligence Index at same price

Google updated its flagship Gemini model, topping several benchmarks while undercutting competitors on performance per dollar.

The Batch Newsletter

Gemini Seizes the Lead, Investors Panic Over Agentic AI, Optimism at Global AI Summit, Local Versus Cloud

The Batch AI News and Insights: We just released a Skill Builder tool to help you understand in which areas of AI you’re strong, where you can learn more, and what to do next to keep building your skills.

Data Points

Anthropic, U.S. square off over AI safeguards: Mercury 2, an ultra-fast diffusion language model

Remote Control, a tool to vibe-code from your phone. Anthropic’s charge that DeepSeek and others distilled its models. Qwen 3.5’s suite of medium MoE models. Protenix-v1, Bytedance’s open-source take on AlphaFold 3.

Data Points

Gemini update adds a new reasoning tier: Claude Code expands to security reviews

Why some AI models give worse answers to non-native English speakers. First Proof, a frontier math challenge OpenAI may have partially solved. LLaDA2.1’s RL framework for diffusion language models. Anthropic’s study suggesting it’s better to let agents cook.

Machine Learning Research

Sleep Signals Predict Illness: SleepFM detects signs of neurological disorders years before symptoms manifest

Difficulty sleeping often precedes heart disease, psychiatric disorders, and many other illnesses. Researchers used data gathered during sleep studies to detect such conditions.

Machine Learning Research

Faster Reasoning at the Edge: Liquid AI’s small reasoning model mixes attention with convolutional layers for efficiency

Reasoning models in the 1 to 2 billion-parameter range typically require more than 1 gigabyte of RAM to run. Liquid AI released one that runs in less than 900 megabytes, and does it with exceptional speed and efficiency.

Letters

How AI Will Create Jobs: Whenever technology unlocks human creativity, it creates far more jobs than it destroys. AI-driven job growth has already started.

Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.

Business

Big AI Spends Big On Lobbying: Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Nvidia pour millions into government influence

Top tech and AI companies spent more than $100 million to influence government policy in 2025, the first time they exceeded that figure.

Machine Learning Research

GLM-5 Scales Up: Z.ai’s updated model boasts top open-weights Intelligence Index score

Z.ai more than doubled the size of its flagship large language model to deliver outstanding performance among open-weights competitors.