Jul 30, 2025

6 Posts

Chart comparing U.S. vs. China AI language model performance, July 2024-July 2025, showing Elo ratings over time.

Jul 30, 2025

High Stakes for Nations in the Great AI Race: The U.S. leads in AI, but China is gaining momentum. Democratic countries should remove roadblocks to AI progress so they can build models that support human rights and the rule of law.

There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.

Jul 30, 2025

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3’s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

The Batch AI News and Insights: There is now a path for China to surpass the U.S. in AI. Even though the U.S. is still ahead, China has tremendous momentum with its vibrant open-weights model ecosystem and aggressive moves in semiconductor design and manufacturing.

Graph showing frequent chatbot users report lower well-being, based on Character.AI usage and survey analysis.

Jul 30, 2025

People With AI Friends Feel Worse: Study shows heavy use of AI companions correlates with lower emotional well-being

People who turn to chatbots for companionship show indications of lower self-reported well-being, researchers found.

Chinese flag overlaid on Nvidia GPUs, symbolizing renewed U.S.-China AI chip trade following lifted export restrictions.

Jul 30, 2025

U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang

Nvidia will resume sales of H20 processors in China.

AlphaEvolve agent loop and performance graph showing superior results on math and ML tasks via code evolution.

Jul 30, 2025

Qwen3’s Agentic Advance: Inside Alibaba's new open-weights models, including the 480 billion parameter Qwen3-Coder

Less than two weeks after Moonshot’s Kimi K2 bested other open-weights, non-reasoning models in tests related to agentic behavior, Alibaba raised the bar yet again.

Robot hand gripping seal of the U.S. Executive Office of the President, symbolizing government control over national AI policy.

Jul 30, 2025

White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation

President Trump set forth principles of an aggressive national AI policy, and he moved to implement them through an action plan and executive orders.

Jul 30, 2025

High Stakes for Nations in the Great AI Race: The U.S. leads in AI, but China is gaining momentum. Democratic countries should remove roadblocks to AI progress so they can build models that support human rights and the rule of law.

Trump Resets AI Policy, Qwen3’s Agentic Advance, U.S. Chips for China, The Trouble With AI Friends

People With AI Friends Feel Worse: Study shows heavy use of AI companions correlates with lower emotional well-being

U.S. Lifts Ban on AI Chips for China: Market opens for Nvidia and AMD GPUs, following a White House meeting with Jensen Huang

Qwen3’s Agentic Advance: Inside Alibaba's new open-weights models, including the 480 billion parameter Qwen3-Coder

White House Resets U.S. AI Policy: How the White House's Action Plan aims to build AI leadership, infrastructure, and innovation

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