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ExploitBench results showing that Claude Mythos Preview only has a slightly higher score than GLM-5.3

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The Next Top Open Model, Google Voice Agents, DeepSeek Shrinks Caches: Plus a letter on open weight cybersecurity capabilities

The Batch News & Insights: Anthropic recently released an encouraging analysis of the cyber capabilities of open weight model GLM-5.3.

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Opus Stalks the Frontier, Jev Classifies Everything, Running Two Models in One Agent

The Batch News & Insights: Moving forward on early stage, 0-to-1 projects and mature projects requires very different tactics.

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Meta’s Agent Security, The Navier-Stokes Controversy, Fraud on Claude

The Batch News & Insights: The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks.

AI Engineering skills map — Shaping the Build. Driving the build loop, making product decisions, Communicating and leading, and High agency ownership

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OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out for the top overall spot, while Google, Meta, and Microsoft all release transcription models

The Batch News & Insights: When you’re skilled at AI Engineering, your best work won’t be merely implementing a product that someone else spec’ed out. Instead, you will actively shape the build.

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Inside Key Changes in Data Policies, Ox Alpha Revealed, Taking Custom Models Beyond Fine-Tuning

The Batch News & Insights: A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents.

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GLM-5.3’s Exploits, AI Models and Hardware Speed Up, DeepSeek’s New Agent Harness

The Batch News & Insights: How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding?

Building and Deploying AI Applications (a graph with multiple nodes)

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Anthropic’s Watermarks, Grok 4.6 Surges, Qwen’s Open Weights, Better Corrections for Speech Recognition

The Batch News & Insights: I previously wrote about our AI Engineering Skills Map, with the highest level skills being (i) Building and deploying...

The DeepLearning.AI AI Engineering skills map: Building/deploying applications, engineering fundamentals, coding agents, shaping the build

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Meta’s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax’s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)

The Batch News & Insights: I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map.

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DeepSeek-V4-Flash Outshines Pro, The Biggest GitHub Crawl Yet, Engineering System Prompts for Safer Code

The Batch News & Insights: I’m glad the idea of “tokenmaxxing” — that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity — is finally dying out.

Fable 5's safeguards flag a request to do a security scan of OpenWorker

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Opus Outshines Even Fable, Inside the Hugging Face Hack, AI Companies Spend Big for Compute

The Batch News & Insights: My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face’s experience when closed models failed to defend the company following an accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open weight GLM 5.2 instead.

A rally for open weight / open source AI with leaders bearing a banner that reads "open source, open weights, open future"

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Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers

The Batch News & Insights: A few frontier labs have tried to tell a story of open models being dangerous because they can be used to launch cyberattacks, and of their “safe” proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.

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AI Overviews Land Google In Hot Water, GPT-Live Puts Reasoning in the Background, How to Tell If Your Model is Manipulative

The Batch News & Insights: As AI increasingly automates coding, it frees up developers to spend time on high-level software development tasks traditionally reserved for senior engineers, like deciding on technical architecture and participating in scoping product requirements.