Letters
A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents. Your skill at steering them both to write code and to carry out non-code tasks, such as analyzing data or managing system operations, allows you to get a lot more done.
The Batch Newsletter
The Batch News & Insights: A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents.
Data Points
World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li introduces a world model. Times-FM-3 sets new standard for multivariable time forecasts. ChatGPT’s advertising program expands to new countries. Music publishers sue Anthropic for copyright infringement.
Data Points
Model Hardware Standard move towards open source release. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe impresses on accuracy tests. Speech-to-text leaderboard expands beyond European languages. U.S. gov’t discriminated against Anthropic, court finds.
Machine Learning Research
AI agents typically compact the contents of their context windows by summarizing or deleting the oldest material.
Hardware
DeepSeek’s flagship model graduated from preview with improved performance plus the harness the model was benchmarked in.
Machine Learning Research
Developers who already track models’ cost and accuracy have good new reasons to pay closer attention to a third essential factor: speed.
Machine Learning Research
Z.ai’s latest flagship model effectively ties open-weights leader Kimi K3 on Artificial Analysis’ index of intelligence benchmarks.
Letters
How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding?
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The Batch News & Insights: How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding?
Data Points
Perplexity moves its computer use agent to on-device models. OpenAI’s Jalapeño may be faster than Nvidia’s best chips. Inside Thomson, Thomson Reuters’ model for law, news, and tax info. T-Rex, a robotics model that knows how to use its hands.
Data Points
GLM-5.3 jumps to top of open weight leaderboards. Harvey’s Tenet offers law firms a specialized model. OpenAI introduces safety program for data-conscious customers. New Google research gives the transformer a makeover.