1. 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... Dear friends, The gulf between 10/16 22:00 ♡
2. 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. Dear friends, I think most people still underest 10/09 22:00 ♡
3. GLM-5.3’s ExploitBench Score is Good News for Cybersecurity The Batch News & Insights: Anthropic recently released an encouraging analysis of the cyber capabilities of open weight model GLM-5.3. Dear friends, Anthropic recently released an 10/02 20:55 ♡
4. 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. Dear friends, Moving forward on early stage, 0-to-1 p 09/25 22:48 ♡
5. 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. Dear friends, The loudest voices stoking fears abou 09/18 22:00 ♡
6. 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... Dear friends, When you’re skilled at AI 09/11 22:00 ♡
7. 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. Dear friends, A key AI engineering skill is using coding agents. Your skill at steering them both to w 09/04 22:00 ♡
8. 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? Dear friends, How have software engineering fundamentals changed with agent 08/28 22:00 ♡
9. 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... Dear friends, I previously wrote &n 08/21 22:00 ♡
10. 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. Dear friends, I am delighted to present The AI Engineering Skills Map. AI allows us to build sof 08/14 22:00 ♡
