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Adji Bousso Dieng is pictured typing on a laptop in a warmly lit room, focusing on AI-driven scientific work.

Machine Learning Research

AI for Scientific Discovery by Adji Bousso Dieng: Adji Bousso Dieng, Princeton University Assistant Professor and AI Researcher, on optimizing models for the long tail

In 2026, I hope AI will transition from being a tool for efficiency to a catalyst for scientific discovery.

David Cox is pictured during a discussion in a glass-walled office, aligned with themes of open-source innovation and teamwork.

Machine Learning Research

Open Source Wins by David Cox: David Cox, VP for AI Models at IBM Research, on the need for open development in AI

My hope is that open AI continues to flourish and ultimately wins.

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Letters

How to Test for Artificial General Intelligence: AGI has become a term of hype, and the traditional Turing Test can’t reliably detect it. How can we evaluate claims of that someone has built artificial general intelligence? Here’s a better test.

Happy 2026! Will this be the year we finally achieve AGI? I’d like to propose a new version of the Turing Test, which I’ll call the Turing-AGI Test, to see if we’ve achieved this.

The Batch Newsletter

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

The Batch AI News and Insights: Happy 2026! Will this be the year we finally achieve AGI? I’d like to propose a new version of the Turing Test, which I’ll call the Turing-AGI Test, to see if we’ve achieved this.

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Data Points

Readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026, Part Two: A special New Year’s issue of Data Points

Usually, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. But in today’s special New Year’s 2026 edition, you’ll find something different: a collection of our readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026.

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Data Points

Readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026, Part One: A special New Year’s issue of Data Points

Usually, Data Points brings you the latest AI news, tools, models, and research in brief. But in today’s special New Year’s 2026 edition, you’ll find something different: a collection of our readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026.

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Business

China’s AI Chip Industry Takes Root: China banned GPUs and TPUs from U.S. manufacturers to promote domestic chips

The United States government’s effort to deprive China of AI computing power backfired as China turned the tables and banned U.S.-designed chips.

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Machine Learning Research

Agents Write Code Faster, Cheaper: Software developers used more versatile AI-powered tools to write code

Coding apps moved beyond autofill-style code completion to agentic systems that manage a wide range of software development tasks.

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Business

Data-Center Buildout Goes Big: AI’s growth spurred infrastructure investment worldwide

Top AI companies announced plans to build data centers that are projected to burn through trillions of dollars and gigawatts of electricity in the next few years.

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AI Careers

Big AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executives

Leading AI companies fought a ferocious war for talent, luring top talent from competitors with levels of compensation more commonly associated with pro sports.

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Machine Learning Research

Thinking Models Solve Bigger Problems: Reasoning models, beginning with OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1, transformed the industry

Think step by step. Explain your reasoning. Work backwards from the answer. As 2025 began, models executed these reasoning strategies only when prompted. Now most new large language models do it as a matter of course, improving performance across a wide range of tasks.

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Letters

How to Gain New Skills and Sharpen Old Ones: Give yourself a gift this holiday season by taking courses, building projects, and (maybe) reading papers.

Another year of rapid AI advances has created more opportunities than ever for anyone — including those just entering the field — to build software.

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AI for Scientific Discovery by Adji Bousso Dieng: Adji Bousso Dieng, Princeton University Assistant Professor and AI Researcher, on optimizing models for the long tail

Open Source Wins by David Cox: David Cox, VP for AI Models at IBM Research, on the need for open development in AI

How to Test for Artificial General Intelligence: AGI has become a term of hype, and the traditional Turing Test can’t reliably detect it. How can we evaluate claims of that someone has built artificial general intelligence? Here’s a better test.

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

Readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026, Part Two: A special New Year’s issue of Data Points

Readers’ highest hopes for AI in 2026, Part One: A special New Year’s issue of Data Points

China’s AI Chip Industry Takes Root: China banned GPUs and TPUs from U.S. manufacturers to promote domestic chips

Agents Write Code Faster, Cheaper: Software developers used more versatile AI-powered tools to write code

Data-Center Buildout Goes Big: AI’s growth spurred infrastructure investment worldwide

Big AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executives

Thinking Models Solve Bigger Problems: Reasoning models, beginning with OpenAI’s o1 and DeepSeek’s R1, transformed the industry

How to Gain New Skills and Sharpen Old Ones: Give yourself a gift this holiday season by taking courses, building projects, and (maybe) reading papers.