May 29, 2026

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Diagram showing step-by-step image creation process, featuring bears, cats, and birds as examples.
May 29, 2026

Planning Generated Images In Stages: Meta improves image models by plotting and revising generations step-by-step

Text-to-image generators that use diffusion or flow-matching typically compose a whole image at once (although they refine the whole image in steps).
Doughnut chart shows 77% of agentic traffic in 2025 went to product search pages.
May 29, 2026

Agents Surf the AI-Written Web: Internet traffic driven by AI rripled last year, study shows

AI-driven activity on the internet rose sharply last year, a study shows.
An arm juggles three EU star-adorned rings, representing the EU balancing new AI regulatory amendments.
May 29, 2026

Europe Pauses Some AI Regulations: European Union regulators delay some AI Act provisions, delete others

The European Union weakened some provisions of its landmark AI Act and delayed others after businesses and policymakers argued the law made European companies less competitive.
Gemini 3.5 Flash shows improved performance, surpassing previous model scores in most benchmarks.
May 29, 2026

Gemini 3.5 Flash Pairs Smarts With Speed: Google's updated Flash levels up, approaching top models but raising prices

Google’s faster model brings substantive gains at a substantially higher price, part of a rising trend in prices per token.
AI Engineering Department with diverse employees working on laptops in an office setting, labeled Forward-Deployed Engineer.
May 29, 2026

Forward Deployed Engineers and the Future of AI Engineering

One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs.
AI Engineering Department with diverse employees working on laptops in an office setting, labeled Forward-Deployed Engineer.
May 29, 2026

Gemini Flash Gets Pricey, AI Act Delays, Agents Drive Online Traffic

The Batch AI News and Insights: One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to help customize solutions, such as building and tuning agentic workflows that suit the client’s particular needs.

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