Jul 03, 2026

When you’re training a robot via reinforcement learning, a handcrafted reward function is labor-intensive to build but often dispenses rewards more effectively than a general-purpose reward model based on a vision-language model. Researchers built reward models that narrowed the gap.

Microsoft, once OpenAI’s exclusive partner and still a major reseller of other companies’ AI models, built its own reasoning model from scratch.

Models that orchestrate the activities of other models and agents achieved state-of-the-art performance on a variety of benchmarks, outperforming the best individual models working alone.

OpenAI announced a preview of its GPT-5.6 family, including a top-tier model comparable to Claude 5 Mythos — but so far it’s available only to users that are selected by the U.S. government.

The AI world has become incredibly noisy. Social media, traditional media, and an army of marketers produce a cacophony of hype and content that are often secretly sales pitches for their products.

The Batch News & Insights: The AI world has become incredibly noisy. Social media, traditional media, and an army of marketers produce a cacophony of hype and content that are often secretly sales pitches for their products.