🗞️ Stay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox Inside Key Changes in Data Policies, Ox Alpha Revealed, Taking Custom Models Beyond Fine-Tuning The Batch News & Insights: A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents. Popular Articles Introducing DeepLearning.AI Pro Reinforcement Learning Heats Up, White House Orders Muscular AI Policy, Computer Use Gains Momentum, Fine Control of Fine-Tuning DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI’s o1 GLM-5.3’s Exploits, AI Models and Hardware Speed Up, DeepSeek’s New Agent Harness The Batch News & Insights: How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agentic coding? 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... 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 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 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 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

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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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? 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. Subscribe to The Batch Stay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox Choose Your Plan