Letters
Agentic Coding and Agentic Software Testing Go Together: Agentic coding can make mistakes, but agentic testing can find and fix them.
Automated software testing is growing in importance in the era of AI-assisted coding.
Sep 17, 2025
The Batch Newsletter
Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized
The Batch AI News and Insights: Automated software testing is growing in importance in the era of AI-assisted coding.
Machine Learning Research
Transformers Energized: Energy-Based Transformers (EBTs) use gradient descent to gradually predict the next token
A new type of transformer can check its work. Instead of guessing the next output token in one shot like a typical transformer, it starts with a rough version of the token and improves it step by step.
Hardware
Drone Swarms Go to War: Ukraine experiments with small groups of low-contact, high-autonomy drones that strike on initiative
Swarms of drones that coordinate with one another autonomously have become a battlefield staple in Ukraine.
Tech & Society
States Ban AI-Driven Treatments for Mental Health: Illinois follows Nevada, prohibiting certain uses of chatbots unless used by licensed therapists
Illinois became the second U.S. state, after Nevada, to ban AI applications that administer psychotherapy.
Machine Learning Research
Qwen3-Next Accelerates: Alibaba’s new model uses hybrid attention layers and a sparse MoE architecture for speed and performance
Alibaba updated its popular Qwen3 open-weights models with a number of fresh, speed-boosting tweaks.