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Anthropic’s Watermarks, Grok 4.6 Surges, Qwen’s Open Weights, Better Corrections for Speech Recognition

Aug 21, 2026

Anthropic’s Watermarks, Grok 4.6 Surges, Qwen’s Open Weights, Better Corrections for Speech Recognition

The Batch News & Insights: I previously wrote about our AI Engineering Skills Map, with the highest level skills being (i) Building and deploying...

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Meta’s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax’s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)

Aug 14, 2026

Meta’s Play for Coding Data, Google Robotics Multi-Embodiment, MiniMax’s Open Video Model (With an Asterisk)

The Batch News & Insights: I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map.

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Outshines Pro, The Biggest GitHub Crawl Yet, Engineering System Prompts for Safer Code

Aug 07, 2026

DeepSeek-V4-Flash Outshines Pro, The Biggest GitHub Crawl Yet, Engineering System Prompts for Safer Code

The Batch News & Insights: I’m glad the idea of “tokenmaxxing” — that individuals and companies should use as many tokens as possible to boost productivity — is finally dying out.

Opus Outshines Even Fable, Inside the Hugging Face Hack, AI Companies Spend Big for Compute

Jul 31, 2026

Opus Outshines Even Fable, Inside the Hugging Face Hack, AI Companies Spend Big for Compute

The Batch News & Insights: My team recently had our own version of Hugging Face’s experience when closed models failed to defend the company following an accidental cyberattack from OpenAI, leading Hugging Face to use the open weight GLM 5.2 instead.

Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers

Jul 24, 2026

Kimi K3 Redraws the Open Frontier, Muse Spark 1.1 Undercuts Competitors, Cloudflare Moves to Cut Off Crawlers

The Batch News & Insights: A few frontier labs have tried to tell a story of open models being dangerous because they can be used to launch cyberattacks, and of their “safe” proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.

AI Overviews Land Google In Hot Water, GPT-Live Puts Reasoning in the Background, How to Tell If Your Model is Manipulative

Jul 17, 2026

AI Overviews Land Google In Hot Water, GPT-Live Puts Reasoning in the Background, How to Tell If Your Model is Manipulative

The Batch News & Insights: As AI increasingly automates coding, it frees up developers to spend time on high-level software development tasks traditionally reserved for senior engineers, like deciding on technical architecture and participating in scoping product requirements.

Restoration of Claude Fable 5, Gemini's Video Dev Engine, DeepSeek Speeds Up Speculative Decoding

Jul 10, 2026

Restoration of Claude Fable 5, Gemini's Video Dev Engine, DeepSeek Speeds Up Speculative Decoding

The Batch News & Insights: The key idea of agentic coding loops is to have an agent keep working until it satisfies a condition, such as achieving a product specification.

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Family, New Ways to Train Robots, Models Invoking Models

Jul 03, 2026

OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Family, New Ways to Train Robots, Models Invoking Models

The Batch News & Insights: The AI world has become incredibly noisy. Social media, traditional media, and an army of marketers produce a cacophony of hype and content that are often secretly sales pitches for their products.

A New Generation Studies AI, Apple's Recipe for On-Device Models, GLM5.2 Tackles Open-Ended Problems

Jun 26, 2026

A New Generation Studies AI, Apple's Recipe for On-Device Models, GLM5.2 Tackles Open-Ended Problems

The Batch News & Insights: “Loop engineering” is a hot buzzphrase after Boris Cherney (Claude Code’s creator) and Peter Steinberger (OpenClaw's creator) both mentioned it on social media.

Testing Mythos and Fable, Moving Beyond SWE-bench,  Nvidia's Open Contender

Jun 19, 2026

Testing Mythos and Fable, Moving Beyond SWE-bench, Nvidia's Open Contender

The Batch AI News and Insights: Over the last two weeks, both the U.S. Government and Anthropic took significant actions that demonstrated their power to control access to AI by restricting what others can do with frontier models.

Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents

Jun 12, 2026

Mythos Begets Fable, Cursor's Composer 2.5, Agents Building Agents

The Batch AI News and Insights: If you haven’t already, I encourage you to experiment with using AI agents not just to chat but to actually do work for you on your desktop.

Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment

Jun 05, 2026

Qwen3.7-Max Challenges Google for Third Place, AI Saves Whales, Fine-Tuning Breaks Copyright Alignment

The Batch AI News and Insights: There have been intense efforts over the past few years to lobby governments to pass AI laws for regulatory capture or to suppress open source.

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

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.

Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?

May 22, 2026

Hermes vs. OpenClaw, Cybersecurity Alarms Ring, More-Interactive Conversations, Can Agents Do Human Work?

The Batch AI News and Insights: Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class.

China Thwarts Meta’s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms

May 15, 2026

China Thwarts Meta’s Agentic Ambition, U.S. Evaluates Upcoming Models, AI Diagnoses Mammograms

The Batch AI News and Insights: We’ve been working on AI Andrew, an AI companion shaped by my personality.

Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget

May 08, 2026

Seedance Makes A Splash, Nvidia's AI-Guided Chip Designs, Helping Robots Not Forget

The Batch AI News and Insights: There will be no AI jobpocalypse. 

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