Jul 24, 2026

Large language models often are called upon to gather news. In this task, researchers found, their ability to find relevant reports is the weakest link.

Web publishers using Cloudflare will soon be able to separately control an AI bot’s access based on what it does, allowing search indexing while blocking AI training or agent activity.

With Llama, Meta marked itself as an open alternative to OpenAI. With its new closed models, Meta now positions itself as a low-cost, high-value competitor.

Moonshot’s latest model leapfrogged the month-old GLM-5.2 and a host of proprietary competitors to finish just behind GPT-5.6 Sol and Claude Fable 5 on many benchmarks.

A few frontier labs have tried to tell a story of open models being dangerous because they can be used to launch cyberattacks, and of their “safe” proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.

The Batch News & Insights: A few frontier labs have tried to tell a story of open models being dangerous because they can be used to launch cyberattacks, and of their “safe” proprietary models with strong guardrails being there to defend us.