Data Points
Nvidia’s new Blackwell chips face months-long delays, Mistral adds fine-tuning and other custom tools, Langchain Studio IDE is built to build agents, Character.AI open-sources its in-house prompt developer
Business
Character.AI followed an emerging pattern for ambitious AI startups, trading its leadership to a tech giant in exchange for funds and a strategic makeover.
Letters
I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News & Insights: I’m delighted to announce AI Python for Beginners, a sequence of free short courses that teach anyone to code, regardless of background.
Machine Learning Research
Seemingly an innocuous form of expression, ASCII art opens a new vector for jailbreak attacks on large language models (LLMs), enabling them to generate outputs that their developers tuned them to avoid producing.
Tech & Society
Buoyed by its military success developing unmanned aerial vehicles, Ukraine is building armed naval drones.
Tech & Society
Employers are embracing automated hiring tools, but prospective employees have AI-powered techniques of their own.
Data Points
Meta’s powerful new real-time object segmentation model, Google expands its open-source Gemma family, how to measure models’ resistance to harmful prompts...
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, I wrote about why working on a concrete startup or project idea — meaning a specific product envisioned in enough detail that we can build it for a specific target user — lets you go faster.
Machine Learning Research
Researchers increasingly fine-tune models on synthetic data, but generated datasets may not be sufficiently diverse. New work used agentic workflows to produce diverse synthetic datasets.
Tech & Society
Online publishers are moving to stop AI developers from training models on their content.
Tech & Society
OpenAI is testing an AI-powered search engine in a bid to compete head-to-head with both Google and its close partner Microsoft Bing.