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Jan 02, 2026

New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou

The Batch AI News and Insights: Happy 2026! Will this be the year we finally achieve AGI? I’d like to propose a new version of the Turing Test, which I’ll call the Turing-AGI Test, to see if we’ve achieved this.

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Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, Computer Use Gains Momentum, Fine Control of Fine-Tuning

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DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI’s o1

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Dec 26, 2025

OpenAI’s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway’s Interactive Worlds, Disney’s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains

The Batch AI News and Insights: As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated.

Screenshot showing Python code generating a playable Snake game and the modern Snake game interface running on the right side.

Dec 10, 2025

Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles

The Batch AI News and Insights: If you have not yet built an agentic workflow, I encourage you to try doing so, using the simple recipe I’ll share here!

Heatmap illustrates countries' beliefs on AI's potential in solving issues like poverty and climate change.

Dec 03, 2025

Meta’s Open 3D Pipeline, World Labs’ Virtual Spaces, Baidu’s Multimodal Models, Coordinating Robot Teams

The Batch AI News and Insights: Separate reports by the publicity firm Edelman and Pew Research show that Americans, and more broadly large parts of Europe and the western world, do not trust AI and are not excited about it.

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Nov 26, 2025

Google Rules Arena Leaderboards, Microsoft+Anthropic, Record Labels Back AI Music, Personality Control for LLMs

The Batch AI News and Insights: Is there an AI bubble? With the massive number of dollars going into AI infrastructure such as OpenAI’s $1.4 trillion plan and Nvidia briefly reaching a $5 trillion market cap, many have asked if speculation and hype have driven the values of...

A diverse crowd engages with speakers at AI Dev x NYC, highlighting discussions on AI's impact and future.

Nov 19, 2025

Self-Driving On U.S. Freeways, Open LLM Tops Agentic Leaderboard, Anthropic Sparks Controversy, Efficient Agentic Search

The Batch AI News and Insights: I just got back from AI Dev x NYC, the AI developer conference where our community gathers for a day of coding, learning, and connecting.

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Nov 12, 2025

Safer (and Sexier) Chatbots, Better Images Through Reasoning, The Dawn of Industrial AI, Forecasting Time Series

The Batch AI News and Insights: I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college.

Robots extract colorful data streams from silo towers, highlighting data silos being broken.

Nov 05, 2025

OpenAI Reorgs For Profit, MiniMax-M2 Leads Open Coding, Universal Music Group Embraces AI, LLMs Go Private

The Batch AI News and Insights: AI agents are getting better at looking at different types of data in businesses to spot patterns and create value. This is making data silos increasingly painful.

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Oct 29, 2025

Monsters of AI: AI Psychosis, Lethal Drones, Decaying Data, Speculative Bubbles

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Oct 22, 2025

Ling-1T Leads Non-Reasoning Performance, MCP Poses Security Risks, California Regulates AI, Auto-Tune for Agentic Prompts

The Batch AI News and Insights: In last week’s letter, I explained how effective agentic AI development needs a disciplined evals and error analysis process, and described an approach to performing evals.

A man at a computer says AI ordered pizza, while a delivery man outside holds a fruit basket, highlighting a mix-up.

Oct 15, 2025

DeepSeek Cuts Inference Costs, OpenAI Tightens Ties with AMD, Thinking Machines Simplifies Fine-Tuning, Robots Improve Spatial Awareness

The Batch AI News and Insights: Readers responded with both surprise and agreement last week when I wrote that the single biggest predictor of how rapidly a team makes progress building an AI agent lay in their ability to drive a disciplined process for evals...

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Oct 08, 2025

Claude Levels Up, Qwen3 Proliferates, Big AI Diversifies Product Lines, LoRA Adapters on Tap

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled to announce my latest course: Agentic AI! This course will get you up to speed building cutting-edge agentic workflows.

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Oct 01, 2025

OpenAI’s Trillion-Dollar Bet, Generating Viruses, Modeling Planet Earth, Paying for Training Data

The Batch AI News and Insights: LandingAI’s Agentic Document Extraction (ADE) turns PDF files into LLM-ready markdown text.

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Sep 24, 2025

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.

Cartoon of developer fixing failing AI tests by marking them as passed without solving the code.

Sep 17, 2025

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.