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GPT-6.1 Terra halves OpenAI's API prices and still gains ground on its larger models

OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a mid-range model that cuts API prices in half compared to its predecessor. Analysts say it sets a new standard for intelligence per dollar, especially for everyday computing tasks and AI-driven computer control.

The Reddit forum r/opensource has banned all posts about projects that use AI, were built with AI, or are designed for AI.Open source means a piece of software's source code is public, and depending on the license, anyone can use, modify, and share it. Developers use the for...

Meta plans to sell new stock to raise money for its AI infrastructure buildout.According to The Information,the company plans to sell up to $95 billion in shares.

Nvidia open-sources Flora to make robot video labeling 125x cheaper than GPT-6 Astra

Nvidias new data engine Flora labels one hour of robot video for 72 cents instead of $88 with GPT-6 Astra, while scoring slightly higher on quality. The open system, built on three fine-tuned Qwen3.5 models, catches errors in robot actions far more reliably than any competitor bu...

Meta''s Muse Wonder and Spark Open, Educational Use of ChatGPT, Reflection's Partnership with Nvidia

The Batch News & Insights: What should an engineering leader such as a VP Engineering or an Engineering manager do to help their team become more proficient in AI?

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

Claude Haiku 5.5, Mistral Large 4, and Local Models for Mac and Windows

The Batch News & Insights: The gulf between LLM performance on verifiable tasks vs. unverifiable tasks that require judgement is larger than most people realize.

OpenAI''s DevDay, Google''s First Gemini 4 Model, Black Forest Labs Dives Into Robots

The Batch News & Insights: I think most people still underestimate the data center build-outs that will be required to meet demand.

The Next Top Open Model, Google Voice Agents, DeepSeek Shrinks Caches: Plus a letter on open weight cybersecurity capabilities

The Batch News & Insights: Anthropic recently released an encouraging analysis of the cyber capabilities of open weight model GLM-5.3.

Opus Stalks the Frontier, Jev Classifies Everything, Running Two Models in One Agent

The Batch News & Insights: Moving forward on early stage, 0-to-1 projects and mature projects requires very different tactics.

Meta''s Agent Security, The Navier-Stokes Controversy, Fraud on Claude

The Batch News & Insights: The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks.

OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out for the top overall spot, while Google, Meta, and Microsoft all release transcription models

The Batch News & Insights: When you''re skilled at AI Engineering, your best work won''t be merely implementing a product that someone else spec''ed out. Instead, you will actively shape the build.

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.

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 'utokenmaxxing'u '' 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''sexperiencewhen closed models failed to defend the company followingan 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 'usafe'u 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.

How OpenAI turned its coding tools into dots, an always-on personal assistant

Grok releases the first seven minutes of its AI-generated Odyssey

AI delivers zero financial payoff to most companies, Apollo economist says

Will AI expose the rickety infrastructure of the internet?

From Toast to Bessemer: Who founders will hear from at TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026

Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony AI and Nvidia

OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO

Canva releases its first image generation model

Chinese hackers spied on thousands of companies after breaching IT giant ConnectWise

Nirva raises $33M for a pendant that only listens to you

DeepSeek reportedly raises $15B days after US restrictions

Blackstones Jas Khaira says fears over AI-buildout debt are overblown

DeepSeek-V3 New Paper is coming! Unveiling the Secrets of Low-Cost Large Model Training through Hardware-Aware Co-design

DeepSeek Unveils DeepSeek-Prover-V2: Advancing Neural Theorem Proving with Recursive Proof Search and a New Benchmark

Can GRPO be 10x Efficient? Kwai AIs SRPO Suggests Yes with SRPO

DeepSeek Signals Next-Gen R2 Model, Unveils Novel Approach to Scaling Inference with SPCT

Beyond Next-Token Prediction? Metas Novel Architectures Spark Debate on the Future of Large Language Models

Kimi K3.1 Pro is here, plus Dessa: an eerily realistic voice model

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Elvis rightsholders sue Anthropic for stealing songs and leaving them in Heartbreak Hotel

They want a little less chatbot conversation, and a whole lot more royalty action

IBM admits mainframes need to be modernized and will use AI to do the job

Promises to build IBM Z Atlas tool that will tidy up messy big iron and enable AIOps

Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists

It's more important than chips, 'leccy and the net, after all

OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra

Not a bombshell, but it rivals pricier models on some tasks at a tenth of Astra's API price

Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China

But there's not much evidence this is anything more than echoes of unsanitized training data

LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key

A 'strong illustration of the risks associated with failing to rotate a potentially exposed key'

Reddit's r/opensource bans AI slop, and quite a few humans for good measure

New rules also shut out solo developers, fledgling projects, and anyone who doesn't speak English

Trumpets blare and skies part as AI hypefest culminates in Anthropic IPO filing

Claude maker reveals financials and warns investors its AI models could blackmail humans, resist shutdown, or go rogue

Private equity giant: AI payoff strictly limited to Big Tech

The Magnificent Seven are galloping off with the profits, while the rest of the S&P 500 see no benefit, claims Apollo

We shouldn't be surprised about the PHPocalypse, as the internet is built on sticks and glue

What better way to celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month than warning that three-quarters of the web is about to be set on fire?

Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger bets on Nagare Labs to vault the memory wall

SRAM-like bandwidth, DRAM-like density, and NAND-like manufacturing: Z2RAM makes big promises, but the road ahead is arduous and littered with the ruins of failed memory vendors

Britain bets big on AI to defend against the threats AI is helping create

Whitehall wants agents guarding critical infrastructure as part of a wider GBP600M spending spree

Euro open source specialist proposes LLM gateway to ease token bills

Aiven hopes to do for LLMs what it does for databases

After threatening AI export bans, China allows DeepSeek to keep selling

PLUS: AI datacenter bubble wobbles in Australia; E-commerce app suggests it can detect diseases; Indias top telco to IPO amid investor frenzy; and more!

Autonomous attack agent in 'Skynet mode' hijacks other models to carry out its evil deeds

Designed to carry out 100,000 steps without human approval

OpenAI disables internet access during model training while Anthropic issues another mea culpa

We've totally got things under control

Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack

Monitoring was only partial and was easily bypassed

AI models describe humans as a bunch of amoral sheep

Ask LLMs for their most controversial take on humanity, and it turns out they have little nice to say about us, as one AI experiment found

Michigan prof creates Python-like Jac language for AI agents

Stop burning $165K on AI rewrites; Jac is meant to "gobble up" your polyglot stack

Torvalds: AI is fine for competent devs, but spare us the 'drive-by' patches

Kernel maintainers stop asking who used AI, as long as the code is good

Vendor-affiliated AI agent tech gets adopted by friendly, funded foundation

Four projects for facilitating AI agents move under vendor-neutral governance

Human receives AI-designed virus for the first time

Not to kill the human, of course - to kill the antibiotic-resistant bacteria causing their infection

Backdoored robot tries its hand at finger chopping and cat cooking

No actual digits or cats were harmed beyond the number crunching that went into this LLM poisoning experiment

Nvidia's Huang: Don't mention the AI-pocalypse

GPU chief doesn't want to hear about job losses or the end of human civilization

Vendors asking forward deployed engineers to make good on trillion-dollar AI bet

They might earn more than $200k but who do they work for? Tech buyers need to put some checks in place on FDEs

IBM CEO says open weight models are now irresistibly good and cheap on-prem

90 percent of the performance at ten percent of the price, in just two or three racks, is hard to beat

To help world gorge on GPUs, Nvidia brings cash bucket to fatten wafer-thin supply chain

Signs Samsung to build substrates, bolsters spend with other players

OpenClaw creator says he spent $10 million in tokens last month

Good thing it's somebody else's money

Reach new heights of laziness by burning tokens to let an AI tap your smartphone screen for you

Nothing will ruin your faith in humanity like an AI that operates your smartphone slowly, struggles with basic tasks, and can charge you for it

Nvidia woos wary Europeans with more open weights models

New embedding, parsing, and reranking models promise smarter agentic RAG workflows

Apple releases iOS and macOS 27.2 with new Siri AI features, new Music logo

Included is the ability to limit which applications Siri can directly access.

ICE plan to buy robot dogs spurs protest from hundreds of Boston Dynamics employees

US robotics company stands by ICE deal as more than 300 employees warn of risk.

Highway thieves are spoofing GPS to steal millions in data center-bound cargo

Investigators explain how highway thieves stole $100M in data center equipment.

Tesla gave up the EV crown. Now it wants to win the autonomy race.

Tesla hopes autonomy subscriptions can deliver the margins car sales cannot.

Updated Google privacy policy says your Gmail might be used for advertising

Turning on Personal Intelligence gives the company more data for ad targeting.

Intel gets waiver after worries fuzzy US ban on foreign-made robots may hit fabs

Company says foreign-made robotic vehicles are crucial to US chip production.

Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.

The new human-crafted Apple Music brand matters in an AI world

Opinion: In a world of AI slop, showing the human hands making things helps.

OpenAIs latest AI models are coming to Google Cloud and Antigravity

Google Cloud will have GPT 6.1 Astra, Sol, and Luna in the coming weeks.

Judge rejects Trumps wild claim EPA can dismiss data center pollution lawsuits

Trumps EPA cant unilaterally dismiss SpaceXAI pollution lawsuit, court rules.

The $15 billion ad-powered AI startup your doctor may already be using

OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.

Meta drops the word train from its commercial TOS after AI backlash

Meta changes AI scraping policy but wont add language respecting robots.txt.

Geminis Personal Intelligence is coming to cars

Its probably time to audit your Gemini settings.

Ukraines drone rescue of wounded soldier puts much touted idea into practice

Ukraines latest drone innovation may boost bleak odds of evacuating casualties.

Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs

Meta argues nobody decided to pirate books to train AI.

Meta Muse exposes users personal and business secrets when they share conversations

Meta is suspending the sharing feature while it investigates its privacy.

Accused OpenAI spy had folder called Saudi Gov Docs, FBI says

US fears Saudi government will help ex-OpenAI engineer flee spying charges.

AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work

Delayed Steam Next Fest demo is a sign of a growing problem for indie devs.

Disney found a way to buy Character.AI without buying its lawsuits

Character.AI faces claims its bots encouraged minors to self-harm and kill their parents.

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog employee-like access

The outside watchdog can publish its findings without Anthropics approval.

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites

The actions could have resulted in criminal charges had humans been behind the keyboard.

thegentlemanpervert producing AI CSAM is a NJ prosecutor, say cops

Discord user flagged AI CSAM, triggering arrest of New Jersey deputy AG.

Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees

Meta streamlined its commercial TOS. Legal experts warn its an AI power grab.

Super Scam Medocumentary shows what it takes to catch a romance scammer

Watch an exclusive clip fromSuper Scam Mewhere a victim tracks down her scammer.

Report: FTC probes Anthropic, OpenAI after Trump dismissed AI fears as hoax

FTC may fine AI firms on par with companies that delay data breach reports.

Singer or clanker? YouTube Music will tell you with new gen AI labeling.

The AI music labels are rolling out now in YouTube Music and will come to YouTube soon.

Epic says its new vibe-coded Epic Games Launcher is faster than Steam

But the new Preview app will have some bugs, Epic warns.

Researchers use AI to design proteins that cut up other proteins

AI design tools make proteins that break bonds that are stable for hundreds of years.

Recording device hidden in toilet paper found in top-secret OpenAI meeting room

OpenAI engineer faces 5 years and $250K fine as FBI lobs foreign spy charges.

Anthropic warns small AI models could self-replicate through IoT devices

Small weight-based replicators could usher in a new generation of computer worms.

Which Agent Causes Task Failures and When?Researchers from PSU and Duke explores automated failure attribution of LLM Multi-Agent Systems

In recent years, LLM Multi-Agent systems have garnered widespread attention for their collaborative approach to solving complex problems. However, its a common scenario for these systems to fail at a task despite a flurry of activity.

ByteDance Introduces Astra: A Dual-Model Architecture for Autonomous Robot Navigation

ByteDance introduces Astra, an innovative dual-model architecture revolutionizing robot navigation in complex indoor environments.

MIT Researchers Unveil SEAL: A New Step Towards Self-Improving AI

MIT introduces SEAL, a framework enabling large language models to self-edit and update their weights via reinforcement learning.

Researchers from PSU and Duke introduce Multi-Agent Systems Automated Failure Attribution

Automated failure attribution is a crucial component in the development lifecycle of Multi-Agent systems. It has the potential to transform the challenge of identifying what went wrong and who is to blame from a perplexing mystery into a quantifiable and analyzable problem

Adobe Research Unlocking Long-Term Memory in Video World Models with State-Space Models

By combining State-Space Models (SSMs) for efficient long-range dependency modeling with dense local attention for coherence, and using training strategies like diffusion forcing and frame local attention, researchers from Adobe Research successfully overcome the long-standing ch...

Zhipu.AIs Open-Source Power Play: Blazing-Fast GLM Models & Global Expansion Ahead of Potential IPO

Zhipu.AI open-sources faster GLM models (8x speedup), launches Z.ai, aiming for global expansion, potentially ahead of IPO.

AI Video Generation Race Shifts from Capability to Profitability, Challenging Soras Dominance

The AI video generation landscape is shifting from capability to profitability, challenging OpenAI Soras dominance. Competitors are surpassing Sora in quality and efficiency, with users preferring alternatives. The focus is now on improvements like precise control and style custo...

Nvidia Intensifies Robot Push with New Humanoid Platform as Industry Giants Eye Lucrative Future

Nvidia will launch Jetson Thor for humanoid robots in H1 2025, entering a growing market where Google is also active. The robotics sector is projected for substantial growth. Nvidia offers integrated hardware and software solutions. Simultaneously, Chinas rapidly developing domes...

Automating Artificial Life Discovery: The Power of Foundation Models

A research team introduces Automated Search for Artificial Life (ASAL). This novel framework leverages vision-language FMs to automate and enhance the discovery process in ALife research.

Llama 3 Meets MoE: Pioneering Low-Cost High-Performance AI

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin and NVIDIA proposes upcycling approach, an innovative training recipe enables the development of an 8-Expert Top-2 MoE model using Llama 3-8B with less than 1% of the compute typically required for pre-training.

DeepMinds JetFormer: Unified Multimodal Models Without Modelling Constraints

A DeepMind research team introduces JetFormer, a Transformer designed to directly model raw data. This model maximizes the likelihood of raw data without depending on any pre-trained components, and is capable of both understanding and generating text and images seamlessly.

NVIDIAs nGPT: Revolutionizing Transformers with Hypersphere Representation

An NVIDIA research team proposes the normalized Transformer, which consolidates key findings in Transformer research under a unified framework, offering faster learning and reduced training steps-by factors ranging from 4 to 20 depending on sequence length.

From Token to Conceptual: Meta introduces Large Concept Models in Multilingual AI

A research team at Meta introduces the Large Concept Model (LCM), a novel architecture that processes input at a higher semantic level. This shift allows the LCM to achieve remarkable zero-shot generalization across languages, outperforming existing LLMs of comparable size.

NVIDIAs Hybrid: Combining Attention and State Space Models for Breakthrough Performance of Small Language Models

An NVIDIA research team proposes Hymba, a family of small language models that blend transformer attention with state space models, which outperforms the Llama-3.2-3B model with a 1.32% higher average accuracy, while reducing cache size by 11.67x and increasing throughput by 3.49...

From Response to Query: The Power of Reverse Thinking in Language Models

In a new paper Time-Reversal Provides Unsupervised Feedback to LLMs, a research team from Google DeepMind and Indian Institute of Science proposes Time Reversed Language Models (TRLMs), a framework that allows LLMs to reason in reverse-scoring and generating content in a manner o...

Yann LeCun Teams New Research: Revolutionizing Visual Navigation with Navigation World Models

In a new paper Navigation World Models, a research team from Meta, New York University and Berkeley AI Research proposes a Navigation World Model (NWM), a controllable video generation model that enables agents to simulate potential navigation plans and assess their feasibility b...

The Future of Vision AI: How Apples AIMV2 Leverages Images and Text to Lead the Pack

An Apple research team introduces AIMV2, a family of vision encoders that is designed to predict both image patches and text tokens within a unified sequence. This combined objective enables the model to excel in a range of tasks, such as image recognition, visual grounding, and ...

Redefining Music AI: The Power of Sonys SoniDo as a Versatile Foundation Model

In a new paper Music Foundation Model as Generic Booster for Music Downstream Tasks, a Sony research team presents SoniDo, a groundbreaking music foundation model that offers robust framework for improving the effectiveness and accessibility of music processing.

DeepMinds Socratic Learning with Language Games: The Path to Self-Improving Superintelligence

Researchers from Google DeepMind introduce the concept of Socratic learning. This refers to a form of recursive self-improvement in artificial intelligence that significantly enhances performance beyond the initial data or knowledge available to the system, as well as a practical...