Jul 23, 2025

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Buildathon promo: Real-time code editor for collaboration and personal finance tracker for spending insights and budgeting.
Jul 23, 2025

Announcing Buildathon: DeepLearning.AI and AI Fund host Buildathon, challenging AI buiders to engineer software projects rapidly. Sign up to compete on August 16, 2025!

We’re organizing a new event called Buildathon: The Rapid Engineering Competition, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, August 16, 2025!
Buildathon promo: Real-time code editor for collaboration and personal finance tracker for spending insights and budgeting.
Jul 23, 2025

Power Moves in AI Coding, Moonshot’s Agentic LLM, How to Comply with EU AI Regs, AI Agents Evolve

The Batch AI News and Insights: We’re organizing a new event called Buildathon: The Rapid Engineering Competition, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, August 16, 2025!
Diagram showing AlphaEvolve’s agentic loop where LLMs iteratively improve code based on human-defined goals and evaluations.
Jul 23, 2025

Agentic System for Harder Problems: Google’s AlphaEvolve uses LLMs and evolutionary code to solve complex math and speed up Gemini training

LLMs can struggle with difficult algorithmic or scientific challenges when asked to solve them in a single attempt. An agentic workflow improved one-shot performance on hard problems both theoretical and practical.
EU flag with stars forming a neural network pattern, symbolizing AI regulation and interconnected oversight.
Jul 23, 2025

How to Comply With the EU’s AI Act: EU issues code of practice to help AI developers follow AI Act regulations

The European Union published guidelines to help builders of AI models to comply with the AI Act, which wasenacted last year.
Bar chart comparing LLMs like Kimi-K2, GPT-4.1, Claude, and Gemini on coding, tool use, and math benchmarks.
Jul 23, 2025

Born To Be Agentic: Moonshot releases Kimi K2, a trillion-parameter model fine-tuned for agentic tool use

An agent’s performance depends not only on an effective workflow but also on a large language model that excels at agentic activities. A new open-weights model focuses on those capabilities.
Puzzle with logos of Google, Windsurf, Cognition AI, and OpenAI symbolizing shifts in AI coding tool partnerships.
Jul 23, 2025

Powers Realign in AI-Assisted Coding: Google, Cognition carve up Windsurf after OpenAI’s failed $3B acquisition bid

A $3 billion bid by OpenAI to acquire Windsurf, maker of the AI-assisted integrated development environment of the same name, collapsed at the 11th hour, setting off a tumultuous few days of corporate maneuvering.

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