Letters
Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.
Business
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
Z.ai more than doubled the size of its flagship large language model to deliver outstanding performance among open-weights competitors.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.
Data Points
Dreamer, a new agent platform that acts like an OS. A proposal to control access to infectious disease data. Tiny Aya, a small model family for India, Africa, West Asia, etc. Code to Canvas, where Figma teams up with Claude Code.
Data Points
OpenClaw creator joins OpenAI. Gemini DeepThink sets new science and reasoning marks. OpenAI partners with Cerebras for Codex-Spark. Hollywood sends cease-and-desists to Bytedance.
Business
Elon Musk’s SpaceX acquired xAI, opening the door to richer financing of the merged entity’s AI research, a tighter focus on space applications of AI, and — if Musk’s dreams are realized — solar-powered data centers in space.
Machine Learning Research
Anthropic updated its flagship large language model to handle longer, more complex agentic tasks.
Machine Learning Research
AI is becoming ubiquitous, yet no standards exist for auditing its safety and security to make sure AI systems don’t assist, say, hackers or terrorists. A new organization aims to change that.
Machine Learning Research
AI models that diagnose illnesses typically generate diagnoses based on descriptions of symptoms. In practice, though, doctors must be able to explain their reasoning and plan next steps. Researchers built a system that accomplishes these tasks.
Letters
I recently spoke at the Sundance Film Festival on a panel about AI.
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The Batch AI News and Insights: I recently spoke at the Sundance Film Festival on a panel about AI.