Data Points
Why Anthropic’s books copyright deal is postponed. The U.S. government’s new AI youth safety investigation. Seedream 4.0, Bytedance’s new image model. Jupyter Agent 2, a set of tools for solving data science problems.
Letters
This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: This week, Coursera held its annual conference in Las Vegas. A major theme was the shift from knowledge- to skills-based education, which will help many individuals, businesses, and educational institutions.
Machine Learning Research
An alternative to attention enables large language models to track relationships among words across extraordinarily wide spans of text.
Tech & Society
A growing private school system replaces the typical 6-hour school day with 2 hours of personalized, AI-assisted education.
Business
AI companies that aspire to compete with Google in search and other information-retrieval applications got a boost from the United States government.
Tech & Society
Meta and OpenAI promised to place more controls on their chatbots’ conversations with children and teenagers, as worrisome interactions with minors come under increasing scrutiny.
Data Points
Qwen3-Max, Alibaba’s giant, capable new model. Grok-code-fast, xAI’s new free coding agent. Google’s deals to supply TPUs to other cloud providers. Projects, ChatGPT’s newly free organizational feature.
Data Points
Hermes, a model trained to reason and follow instructions. Tencent’s new explorable 3D world framework. OpenAI’s new jobs and certification programs. Warner Bros’s lawsuit against Midjourney.
Letters
There is significant unmet demand for developers who understand AI.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: There is significant unmet demand for developers who understand AI.
Machine Learning Research
Autonomous agents built on large language models introduce distinct security concerns. Researchers designed a system to protect agents from common vulnerabilities.