Jul 09, 2025

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Map of the U.S. showing the status of AI governance bills by state in 2025, color-coded by legislative progress.
Jul 09, 2025

How The U.S. “One Big Beautiful Bill” Will Shape AI Regulation: State-by-state regulation of AI will create a shifting patchwork of laws that are likely to hamper innovation even as they provide lesser benefits.

Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
Map of the U.S. showing the status of AI governance bills by state in 2025, color-coded by legislative progress.
Jul 09, 2025

How to Make LLMs Commit Blackmail, Robotic Beehive, Walmart’s AI App Factory, Training Web Agents

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, the United States Congress passed President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” I’m disappointed it didn’t include a proposed moratorium on U.S. state-level AI regulation.
An automated data-generation pipeline for producing web-agent training data. LLMs generate browser-based tasks, then attempt to execute them, and evaluate the results.
Jul 09, 2025

Generated Data for Training Web Agents: Researchers scale up production of training data for web agents

Developing an agent that navigates the web can involve a lot of human effort spent annotating training examples to fine-tune the agent’s LLM component. Scientists automated the production of data that fine-tuned LLMs effectively for web tasks.
Diagram of Walmart’s Element platform for AI app development, which unifies data and containerizes processing across multiple cloud providers.
Jul 09, 2025

Inside Walmart’s AI App Factory: Walmart’s Element platform for industrial-scale AI app development — a progress report

The world’s biggest retailer by revenue revealed new details about its cloud- and model-agnostic AI application development platform.
Beekeepers inspect Beewise robotic hive that uses computer vision and other AI to monitor and maintain a bee colony.
Jul 09, 2025

Robotic Beehive For Healthier Bees: Beewise’s robotic beehive uses AI to save pollinators.

An automated beehive uses computer vision and robotics to help keep bees healthy and crops pollinated.
Email from an LLM blackmailing a coworker, generated during an experiment that tested LLM behavior under pressure.
Jul 09, 2025

Good Models, Bad Choices: Anthropic made LLMs choose between failing and misbehaving, and they blackmailed executives.

Top large language models, under experimental conditions that pressed them to choose between abandoning their prompted mission and misbehaving, resorted to harmful behavior, researchers found.

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