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GPT-5’s Rough Takeoff, AI Video Blockbusters, India’s Homegrown LLMs, Synthetic Data Generation
The Batch AI News and Insights: Just as many businesses are transforming to become more capable by using AI, universities are too.
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Weekly AI news and perspective for engineers, executives, and enthusiasts.
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Open Agentic LLMs Proliferate, Robot Removes Gallbladders, Reasoning Models Boost Emissions, OpenAI Re-Opens
The Batch AI News and Insights: Recently Meta made headlines with unprecedented, massive compensation packages for AI model builders exceeding $100M (sometimes spread over multiple years).
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Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3’s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends
The Batch AI News and Insights: There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.
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Power Moves in AI Coding, Moonshot’s Agentic LLM, How to Comply with EU AI Regs, AI Agents Evolve
The Batch AI News and Insights: We’re organizing a new event called Buildathon: The Rapid Engineering Competition, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, August 16, 2025!
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Grok Raises Questions, Meta Poaches Talent, California Reframes AI Regulations, Multi-Agent Systems Get Stronger
The Batch AI News and Insights: The invention of modern writing instruments like the typewriter made writing easier, but they also led to the rise of writer’s block, where deciding what to write became the bottleneck.
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How to Make LLMs Commit Blackmail, Robotic Beehive, Walmart’s AI App Factory, Training Web Agents
The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
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Amazon’s $100 Billion Bet, Meta’s Sensor-Packed Glasses, Anthropic’s Reason-Free Reasoning, Google’s Extreme Weather Prediction
The Batch AI News and Insights: I’d like to share a tip for getting more practice building with AI — that is, either using AI building blocks to build applications or using AI coding assistance to create powerful applications quickly.
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Judge Rules Training AI on Copyrighted Works Is Fair Use, Agentic Biology Evolves, Meta Befriends Alexandr Wang
The Batch AI News and Insights: On Monday, a United States District Court ruled that training LLMs on copyrighted books constitutes fair use.
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Apple Sharpens Its GenAI Profile, Hollywood Joins Copyright Fight, OpenAI Ups Reasoning Quotient, LLM Rights Historical Wrongs
The Batch AI News and Insights: One of the most effective things the U.S. or any other nation can do to ensure its competitiveness in AI is to welcome high-skilled immigration and international students who have the potential to become high-skilled.
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FLUX.1 Kontext’s Consistent Characters, Benchmarking Costs Climb, Mary Meeker’s Action-Packed AI Report, Better Video Gen
The Batch AI News and Insights: There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI.
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DeepSeek-R1 Refreshed, AI’s Energy Conundrum, Agents Get Phished, Machine Translation in Action
The Batch AI News and Insights: Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.
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Claude 4 Advances Code Gen, How DeepSeek Built V3 For $5.6m, Google I/O Roundup, O’Reilly Versus OpenAI
The Batch AI News and Insights: I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas.