Jun 4, 2025

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Diagram showing how a language model agent gets misled by malicious posts and sites when searching for Nike shoes online.
Jun 4, 2025

Phishing for Agents: Columbia University researchers show how to trick trusting AI agents with poisoned links

Researchers identified a simple way to mislead autonomous agents based on large language models.
Bar chart comparing electricity use by various text-generation models: very small, small, medium-sized, large MoE, and large reasoning.
Jun 4, 2025

AI Uses Energy, AI Saves Energy: The International Energy Agency examines the energy costs and potential savings of the AI boom

AI’s thirst for energy is growing, but the technology also could help produce huge energy savings over the next five to 10 years, according to a recent report.
Duolingo owl mascots dressed in cultural costumes, representing global languages and cultures.
Jun 4, 2025

Machine Translation in Action: Duolingo turns to AI translation to expand its most popular courses to all 28 user languages

AI is bringing a massive boost in productivity to Duolingo, maker of the most popular app for learning languages.
Bar graph comparing AI model accuracies for AIME 2024-2025, GPQA, LiveCodeBench, Aider, and Humanity's Last Exam.
Jun 4, 2025

Next-Level DeepSeek-R1: DeepSeek-R1’s update leads all open models and brings it up to date with the latest from Google and OpenAI

DeepSeek updated its groundbreaking DeepSeek-R1 large language model to strike another blow for open-weights performance.
Robots building a wooden house frame under sunny sky. Teamwork, technology, and construction. Future automation in construction.
Jun 4, 2025

How AI Fund Is Building AI Builders: AI-enabled coding empowers anyone build software that boosts productivity and makes life easier. Here’s now non-engineers at AI Fund are building apps for fun and profit.

Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.
Robots building a wooden house frame under sunny sky. Teamwork, technology, and construction. Future automation in construction.
Jun 4, 2025

DeepSeek-R1 Refreshed, AI’s Energy Conundrum, Agents Get Phished, Machine Translation in Action

The Batch AI News and Insights: Everyone can benefit by learning to code with AI! At AI Fund, the venture studio I lead, everyone — not just the engineers — can vibe code or use more sophisticated AI-assisted coding techniques.

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