Letters

How to Liberate Data From Large, Complex PDFs: LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction accurately extracts data from PDFs for processing by LLMs in as few as 3 lines of code.

LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) turns PDF files into LLM-ready markdown text.

Machine Learning Research

AI Generates Viral Genomes: Researchers use genomic language models to create custom viruses

Researchers used AI models to create novel viruses from scratch.

Business

OpenAI On the Road to Trillion-Dollar Spending: OpenAI partners with Oracle, Nvidia, Softbank, and more to build out 20 gigawatts of data center capacity

A flurry of announcements brought into sharper focus OpenAI’s plans to build what may amount to trillions of dollars of global computing capacity.

The Batch Newsletter

OpenAI’s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

The Batch AI News and Insights: LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) turns PDF files into LLM-ready markdown text.

Data Points

Anthropic updates Sonnet, Claude Code, and agentic dev tools: Perplexity builds developer API for its search engine

Two new Gemini robotics that coordinate to learn and act. ChatGPT bringing news and research to you with Pulse. Spotify’s crackdown on AI song impersonation. Microsoft introduces “vibe working” to Office.

Data Points

Meta’s newest world model research project: Google’s Data Commons now available via MCP

DeepSeek’s recent model update. SWE-Bench-Pro, a tough new coding benchmark. ChromeDevTools, a new way for agents to control a web browser. Microsoft’s latest move to open up Copilot to more models.

Letters

High Stakes in the U.S.-China AI Chip Race: China’s decision to use domestic AI chips instead of buying from Nvidia signals progress — and newfound confidence — in its own semiconductor industry.

Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.

The Batch Newsletter

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.

Machine Learning Research

Faster Reinforcement Learning: New technique auto-selects training examples to speed up fine-tuning

Fine-tuning large language models via reinforcement learning is computationally expensive, but researchers found a way to streamline the process.

Business

Sports Betting Goes Agentic: Gambling sites roll out AI tools that predict wins and track bets for sports fans

AI agents are getting in on the action of online sports gambling.

Machine Learning Research

What ChatGPT Users Want: ChatGPT users now more likely to be young, female, and seeking info, study shows

What do ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users do with it? OpenAI teamed up with a Harvard economist to find out.

Business

Agents of Commerce: Google’s AP2 gives developers new tools to build agentic payments

Google launched an open protocol for agentic payments that enables agents based on any large language model to purchase items over the internet.