Data Points
Zhipu’s GLM-5.2 is the new top open model: SpaceX buys coding favorite Cursor
OpenRouter’s model mix-and-match. Subject expertise trumps software skills. OpenAI loses share to Google, Anthropic. Google ruled liable for AI mistakes.
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Data Points
DiffusionGemma breaks 1,000 tokens/second: Anthropic closes Fable and Mythos after US intervention
Claude Fable 5 no longer silently degrades. Hermes Agent maker streamlines setup. Agents’ Last Exam pushes top models. Gemini-SQL2 translates database queries.
Machine Learning Research
State Media Influences LLM Responses: Significant portions of AI training material reflect national propaganda
Popular large language models have adopted the biases of governments that control the free flow of information, particularly when those models generate output in the languages of countries where such governments are in power, researchers found.
Machine Learning Research
RSI Is the New AGI: What Is recursive self-improvement, and why Is everybody talking about it?
The phrase recursive self-improvement erupted on social media following an Anthropic report that tracked AI-driven gains in the company’s internal software-engineering productivity.
Machine Learning Research
Cursor Fits Its Model to Its Agent: Composer 2.5 for Cursor rivals GPT-5.5's coding abilities at lower price
Cursor’s latest software engineering model rivals the performance of leading competitors like Claude Opus 4.7 and GPT 5.5 for a fraction of the price.
Machine Learning Research
Behold Mythos!: Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5 and Claude Fable 5, a public version with safeguards
After months of headlines that teased a large language model with extraordinary capabilities, Anthropic launched Claude Mythos 5, which can crack software previously believed to be secure, and Claude Fable 5, a version for general use that limits what users can do in an unprecedented way.
Letters
Agents on the Desktop
If you haven’t already, I encourage you to experiment with using AI agents not just to chat but to actually do work for you on your desktop.
The Batch Newsletter
Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents
The Batch AI News and Insights: If you haven’t already, I encourage you to experiment with using AI agents not just to chat but to actually do work for you on your desktop.
Data Points
Claude Fable 5, or Mythos for the masses: Apple rethinks mixture-of-experts to save local memory
Google’s voice translation model covers 70+ languages. OpenAI’s preliminary public-offering paperwork. NotebookLM, now powered by Gemini 3.5 agents. FrontierCode, a new code-quality benchmark from Cognition.
Data Points
Apple builds local/cloud models with Google: Gemma 4 12B, a laptop-sized model with multimodal power
The first working vaccine built by AI. Kimi CLI, Moonshot’s software engineering agent. The White House’s plans for an OpenAI stake. OpenJarvis, an open-source agent that learns on-device.
Machine Learning Research
Fine-Tuning LLMs to Expand on Summaries Unearths Pretraining Texts: Fine-Tuning can strip models of copyright alignment guidelines
Fine-tuning large language models on a seemingly benign task that would be useful to writers — expanding plot summaries into paragraphs of polished fiction — causes them to regurgitate substantial portions of books on which they were pretrained.
Tech & Society
Inside the Gray Market for LLM Access: Middlemen package extra tokens, hijack IDs to resell, distill models
An ecosystem of API proxy servers enables AI developers in China to access top U.S. models at deeply discounted prices.