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Tech & Society

White House Orders Muscular AI Policy: U.S. shifts AI strategy to remove regulations and reinforce global leadership

Under a new president, the United States reversed its approach to AI regulation, seeking global dominance by reducing restrictions.

AI assistant processes ‘Find me a family-friendly campsite’ and suggests options.

Machine Learning Research

Computer Use Gains Momentum: OpenAI’s Operator automates online tasks with a new AI agent

OpenAI introduced an AI agent that performs simple web tasks on a user’s behalf.

Diagram of a reinforcement learning system for training LLMs, showing data and weight flow processes.

Machine Learning Research

Reinforcement Learning Heats Up: How DeepSeek-R1 and Kimi k1.5 use reinforcement learning to improve reasoning

Reinforcement learning is emerging as an avenue for building large language models with advanced reasoning capabilities.

Game developers using AI to build a 3D world.

Data Points

Kimi’s k1.5 is o1’s newest competitor; Learn how it was trained: Atlas, a Mayo Clinic model to detect cancer and other diseases

Claude’s Citations API makes it easier to track your sources. Browser Use challenges Computer Use, for free. How game developers both adopt and fear AI. Hunyuan’s new open model builds 3D assets with textures.

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Data Points

OpenAI’s Operator brings agents to the browser: U.S. reverses course on AI regulation

ByteDance’s Doubao promises GPT-4o performance at cut-rate prices. Perplexity debuts new API grounding in web search. Hugging Face’s SmolVLM gets even smaller. Benchmark-maker Epoch AI and OpenAI criticized for keeping funding deal under wraps.

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Letters

How to Cool a Warming Planet: The only plausible path to keeping climate change in check is geoengineering.

Greetings from Davos, Switzerland! Many business and government leaders are gathered here again for the annual World Economic Forum to discuss tech, climate, geopolitics, and economic growth.

The Batch Newsletter

DeepSeek’s Open Reasoning Model, Affordable Humanoid Robots, Texas’ Restrictive AI Law, GenAI for Electronics

The Batch AI News and Insights: Greetings from Davos, Switzerland! Many business and government leaders are gathered here again for the annual World Economic Forum to discuss tech, climate, geopolitics, and economic growth.

Workflow for inverse design using deep learning to predict S-parameters and radiation in structures.

Machine Learning Research

Generated Chip Designs Work in Mysterious Ways: Researchers used deep learning and an evolutionary algorithm to design chips in minutes

Designing integrated circuits typically requires years of human expertise. Recent work set AI to the task with surprising results.

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Tech & Society

Texas Moves to Regulate AI: Texas introduces landmark bill to regulate AI development and use

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of Texas are considering stringent AI regulation.

GIF of two humanoid robots walking, one on grass and the other on a paved surface.

Hardware

Humanoid Robot Price Break: Unitree and EngineAI showcase affordable humanoid robots

Chinese robot makers Unitree and EngineAI showed off relatively low-priced humanoid robots that could bring advanced robotics closer to everyday applications.

Bar chart comparing accuracy and percentile scores of DeepSeek models and OpenAI models across benchmarks.

Machine Learning Research

DeepSeek Sharpens Its Reasoning: DeepSeek-R1, an affordable rival to OpenAI’s o1

A new open model rivals OpenAI’s o1, and it’s free to use or modify.

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Data Points

DeepSeek releases R1, R1-Zero, and six smaller distilled models: Luma updates Dream Machine’s video engine

Codestral matches or beats mid-sized fill-in-the-middle models. MiniMax’s “Lightning Attention” tries to improve on the transformer. Co-STORM now available for AI collaboration on encyclopedia articles. LlamaIndex uses agentic RAG to retrieve info from complex documents.