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Mar 20, 2026

Attacks On Data Centers, Qwen3.5 In All Sizes, DeepSeek’s Huawei Play, Apple’s Multimodal Tokenizer

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity.

Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro

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

Bar chart comparing accuracy and percentile scores of DeepSeek models and OpenAI models across benchmarks.

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

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Mar 13, 2026

GPT-5.4 Makes A Splash, AI’s Growth on Mobile, Data Centers Go Off-Grid, Apple’s Diffusion Research

The Batch AI News and Insights: Should there be a Stack Overflow for AI coding agents to share their learnings with each other?

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Mar 06, 2026

Anthropic vs. the U.S. Government, Nano Banana’s Makeover, Frontier Agent Management, Google’s Mathematics Solutions

The Batch AI News and Insights: I’m thrilled to announce Context Hub, a new tool to give to your coding agents the API documentation they need to write correct code.

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Feb 27, 2026

Gemini Seizes the Lead, Investors Panic Over Agentic AI, Optimism at Global AI Summit, Local Versus Cloud

The Batch AI News and Insights: We just released a Skill Builder tool to help you understand in which areas of AI you’re strong, where you can learn more, and what to do next to keep building your skills.

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Feb 20, 2026

The New Open-Weights Leader, Big AI’s Political Influence, Predicting Illness, Faster Reasoning

The Batch AI News and Insights: Will AI create new job opportunities? My daughter Nova loves cats, and her favorite color is yellow.

Andrew Ng speaks into a microphone during a panel on AI creativity at Sundance Film Festival.

Feb 13, 2026

Claude Opus 4.6 Thinks Smarter, xAI Joins SpaceX, AI Outperforms Doctors, Standardized AI Audits

The Batch AI News and Insights: I recently spoke at the Sundance Film Festival on a panel about AI.

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Feb 06, 2026

OpenClaw Runs Amok, Kimi’s Open Model, Ministral Distilled, Wikipedia’s Partners

The Batch AI News and Insights: Job seekers in the U.S. and many other nations face a tough environment.

Jan 30, 2026

Agents Go Shopping, Intelligence Redefined, Better Text in Pictures, Higher Engagement Means Worse Alignment

The Batch AI News and Insights: U.S. policies are driving allies away from using American AI technology.

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Jan 23, 2026

Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple’s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto

The Batch AI News and Insights: How can businesses go beyond using AI for incremental efficiency gains to create transformative impact?

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Jan 16, 2026

Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval

The Batch AI News and Insights: Many people are fighting the growth of data centers because they could increase CO2 emissions, electricity prices, and water use.

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Jan 09, 2026

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

The Batch AI News and Insights: We just launched a course that shows people who have never coded before, in less than 30 minutes, how to describe an idea for an app and build it using AI.

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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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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.

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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.