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…
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Anthropic raises $65B in Series H at a $965B post-money valuation, releases Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows
**Anthropic** announced a massive **$65B Series H financing** at a **$965B valuation**, led by **Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia**, with run-rate revenue surpassing **$47B**. They launched…
Last Week in AI #341 – Musk loses to OpenAI, Google's IO updates, OpenAI solves Erdős
Elon Musk Loses $150 Billion Suit Against OpenAI and Sam Altman, Google updates its Gemini app to take on ChatGPT and Claude at IO 2026, and…
Choosing to Stay Human
If you go to your favorite social media site, you will find it full of posts that start to look suspiciously similar to each other:
Some ideas for what comes next, May 2026
Gemini Flash 3.5, Mythos, open-closed balance, America's open-source surge, emerging power struggles and more.
Is SaaS dead?
MCP comeback in works
Import AI 458: Reckoning with the future; and a singularity story
What AI-driven miracles will happen this year?
not much happened today
**Harness engineering** is emerging as the key differentiator for coding agents, emphasizing the stack of **model + harness + eval loop** over just stronger base models.…
not much happened today
**Inference optimization** is increasingly architectural, with **EAGLE 3.1** improving speculative decoding and long-context handling, collaborating with **vLLM** and **TorchSpec**. **Perplexity** open-sourced a rebuilt **Unigram tokenizer** cutting…
LWiAI Podcast #246 – Gemini 3.5 + Omni, Musk Loses, OpenAI vs Erdős
Google unveils AI model Gemini 3.5 and AI agent Gemini Spark, Omni turns images, audio, and text into video, Musk loses OpenAI court battle
How AI Is Taking Away Your Ability to Do Your Own Work
And seven principles you can apply to stop it
Did Google’s AI agents really build an operating system for $916?
The importance of independent evaluation
Reiner Pope – Chip design from the bottom up
Working up from basic logic gates to why GPUs, TPUs, FPGAs, and the human brain each look the way they do.
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…
Do AI Risks Require Extraordinary Government Intervention?
Let’s not skip the hard work of AI governance
Google's take on openclaw
it's Anthropic's time for the mandate of heaven
not much happened today
**RAEv2** advances representation-first tokenization with **>10x faster convergence** and improved generation, tested on **text-to-image** and **world models**. **NVIDIA's Gated DeltaNet-2** innovates linear attention with channel-wise gates,…
How America Turned Against AI According to the Poll Data: A (Very Big) Compilation
Every poll, pollster, and methodology converges on the same thing
LWiAI Podcast #245 – TML-Interaction, Claude For Legal, Sam Altman on Stand
OpenAI launches new voice intelligence features in its API, Thinking Machines drops a new, highly responsive model designed for humanlike interactions in real time, and more!
Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic: What Happens Next
A quick review of the last 6 months
Can I get my agents on the phone?
I haven’t used OpenClaw in weeks
How to Think of AI as a Normal Technology
Stop worrying about the AI apocalypse
Import AI 457: AI stuxnet; cursed Muon optimizer; and positive alignment
Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research.
Google I/O 2026: Gemini 3.5 Flash, Omni, and Google’s Agent Stack
**Google** announced at I/O the repositioning of **Gemini** as a consumer AI and developer/agent platform with three key releases: **Gemini 3.5 Flash** for fast agentic and…