OpenClaw Runs Amok, Kimi’s Open Model, Ministral Distilled, Wikipedia’s Partners
The Batch AI News and Insights: Job seekers in the U.S. and many other nations face a tough environment.
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Last Week in AI #334 – Kimi K2.5 & Code, Genie 3, OpenClaw & Moltbook
China’s Moonshot releases a new open source model Kimi K2.5 and a coding agent, Google Brings Genie 3’s Interactive World-Building Prototype to AI Ultra Subscribers, and…
Import AI 443: Into the mist: Moltbook, agent ecologies, and the internet in transition
Plus, a story about agents corrupting other agents
Agents Go Shopping, Intelligence Redefined, Better Text in Pictures, Higher Engagement Means Worse Alignment
The Batch AI News and Insights: U.S. policies are driving allies away from using American AI technology.
Fact checking Moravec's paradox
This famous aphorism is neither true nor useful
LWiAI Podcast #232 – ChatGPT Ads, Thinking Machines Drama, STEM
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, The Drama at Thinking Machines, STEM: Scaling Transformers with Embedding Modules
Management as AI superpower
Thriving in a world of agents
Categories of Inference-Time Scaling for Improved LLM Reasoning
And an Overview of Recent Inference-Scaling Papers
Last Week in AI #333 – ChatGPT Ads, Zhipu+Huawei, Drama at Thinking Machines
OpenAI to test ads in ChatGPT as it burns through billions, Sequoia to invest in Anthropic, Zhipu AI breaks US chip reliance, The Drama at Thinking…
Self-Driving Reasoning Models, ChatGPT Adds Ads, Apple’s Deal with Google, 3D Generation Pronto
The Batch AI News and Insights: How can businesses go beyond using AI for incremental efficiency gains to create transformative impact?
Governments vs. Grok, Meta Buys Agent Tech, Healthcare Chatbots, Limits of AI-Powered Retrieval
The Batch AI News and Insights: Many people are fighting the growth of data centers because they could increase CO2 emissions, electricity prices, and water use.
LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less
The Batch AI News and Insights: We just launched a course that shows people who have never coded before, in less than 30 minutes, how to…
Claude Code and What Comes Next
With the right tools, AI can accomplish impressive things
New Year Special! Hopes for 2026 from David Cox, Adji Bousso Dieng, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Tanmay Gupta, Pengtao Xie, Sharon Zhou
The Batch AI News and Insights: Happy 2026! Will this be the year we finally achieve AGI? I’d like to propose a new version of the…
The State Of LLMs 2025: Progress, Problems, and Predictions
A 2025 review of large language models, from DeepSeek R1 and RLVR to inference-time scaling, benchmarks, architectures, and predictions for 2026.
LLM Research Papers: The 2025 List (July to December)
In June, I shared a bonus article with my curated and bookmarked research paper lists to the paid subscribers who make this Substack possible.
Top Stories of 2025! Big AI Poaches Talent, Reasoning Models Boost Performance, Agents Write Code, Data Centers Drive GDP, China Turns the Tables
The Batch AI News and Insights: Another year of rapid AI advances has created more opportunities than ever for anyone — including those just entering the…
The Shape of AI: Jaggedness, Bottlenecks and Salients
And why Nano Banana Pro is such a big deal
OpenAI’s Answer to Gemini 3, Runway’s Interactive Worlds, Disney’s Alliance With OpenAI, Adapting LLMs for Low-Data Domains
The Batch AI News and Insights: As amazing as LLMs are, improving their knowledge today involves a more piecemeal process than is widely appreciated.
Claude Opus 4.5 Saves Tokens, White House Boosts AI-Powered Science, Amazon Exposes Nova 2 Pro Checkpoints, Small Models Solve Hard Puzzles
The Batch AI News and Insights: If you have not yet built an agentic workflow, I encourage you to try doing so, using the simple recipe…
From DeepSeek V3 to V3.2: Architecture, Sparse Attention, and RL Updates
Understanding How DeepSeek's Flagship Open-Weight Models Evolved
Three Years from GPT-3 to Gemini 3
From chatbots to agents
Giving your AI a Job Interview
As AI advice becomes more important, we are going to need to get better at assessing it
Beyond Standard LLMs
Linear Attention Hybrids, Text Diffusion, Code World Models, and Small Recursive Transformers