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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics
The Batch AI News and Insights: As AI agents accelerate coding, what is the future of software engineering?
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Open Questions About the Future of Software Engineering: The future of software engineering — the theme of our AI Developer Conference April 28-29 in San Francisco — is in flux. Here are some top open questions.
As AI agents accelerate coding, what is the future of software engineering?
Data Points
China’s showdown with NeurIPS conference: Claude’s emotion vectors aren’t feelings, but affect behavior
Google’s updates to its open model family. Cursor 3, a brand-new interface built for agents. Microsoft AI’s latest speech and image models. Anthropic’s clampdown on OpenClaw.
Machine Learning Research
Learning Long Context at Inference: Test-Time Training End-to-End (TTT-E2E) retrains model weights to handle long inputs
Large language models typically become less accurate and slower when they process longer contexts, but researchers enabled an LLM to keep accuracy stable and inference time constant as its context grew.
Machine Learning Research
Gemini’s Music Generator: Google debuted Lyria 3, an app that turns text or images into 30-second songs
Google added a music generator to Gemini and YouTube, putting a model that produces synthetic songs in front of hundreds of millions of users.
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OpenAI Exits Video Generation: OpenAI will shut down Sora, its once state-of-the-art video model
OpenAI plans to shut down its video generator Sora in a sudden retreat from the video market.
Machine Learning Research
Inside Claude Code: Claude Code’s source code leaked, exposing potential future features Kairos and autoDream
The inner workings of the popular coding agent Claude Code are available for all to see.
Letters
Building Voice-Enabled Apps is Easier Than You May Think: Voice-enabled AI applications are improving quickly. Get ready for the next wave of AI!
Voice-based AI that you can talk to is improving rapidly, yet most people still don’t appreciate how pervasive voice UIs (user interfaces) will become.
The Batch Newsletter
Claude Code’s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference
The Batch AI News and Insights: Voice-based AI that you can talk to is improving rapidly, yet most people still don’t appreciate how pervasive voice UIs (user interfaces) will become.
Letters
How Anti-AI Propaganda Hurts the Public: The anti-AI coalition is beoming more sophisticated in its efforts to block progress
The anti-AI coalition continues to maneuver to find arguments to slow down AI progress.
Machine Learning Research
Context As An External Variable: Recursive Language Models offer path to aramatically expand beyond the context window
When processing long contexts, large language models often lose track of details or devolve into nonsense. Researchers reduced these effects by managing context externally.
Machine Learning Research
xAI’s Cost-Effective Video Generator: Grok Imagine 1.0 sharply cuts costs for high-quality video generation
xAI launched a video generator that topped an independent quality ranking at a fraction of competitors’ prices.