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May 01, 2026

GPT-5.5 Outperforms (and Hallucinates), Kimi K2.6 Leads Open LLMs, AI Strains Climate Pledges, Strategic Thinking in LLMs vs. Humans

The Batch AI News and Insights: The ways we prompt AI are very different in 2026 than 2022 when ChatGPT came out.

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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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Apr 24, 2026

GLM 5.1 Thinks Strategically, Data-Center Revolt Intensifies, When Helpful LLMs Turn Unhelpful, Humanoid Robots Get to Work

The Batch AI News and Insights: Coding agents are accelerating different types of software work to different degrees.

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Apr 17, 2026

Meta Pivots From Open Weights, Big Pharma Bets On AI, Regulatory Patchwork, Simulating Human Cohorts

The Batch AI News and Insights: AI-native software engineering teams operate very differently than traditional teams.

Apr 10, 2026

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Problem, Dark DNA Unveiled, Pitfalls for Assistive Models, Simulating Fluid Dynamics

The Batch AI News and Insights: As AI agents accelerate coding, what is the future of software engineering?

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Apr 03, 2026

Claude Code’s Source Leaks, OpenAI Exits Video Generation, Gemini Adds Music Generation, LLMs Learn at Inference

The Batch AI News and Insights: Voice-based AI that you can talk to is improving rapidly, yet most people still don’t appreciate how pervasive voice UIs (user interfaces) will become.

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Mar 27, 2026

Nvidia’s Open Salvo, OpenAI’s Amazon Deal, Grok Cuts Video Prices, Recursive Language Models

The Batch AI News and Insights: The anti-AI coalition continues to maneuver to find arguments to slow down AI progress.

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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.

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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.

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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.