May 28, 2025

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Bar chart showing proposed 2026 U.S. science funding cuts vs. 2025 for agencies like USFS, NSF, NASA, and DoE.
May 28, 2025

Claude 4 Advances Code Gen, How DeepSeek Built V3 For $5.6m, Google I/O Roundup, O’Reilly Versus OpenAI

The Batch AI News and Insights: I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas.
Bar chart showing proposed 2026 U.S. science funding cuts vs. 2025 for agencies like USFS, NSF, NASA, and DoE.
May 28, 2025

Cut Research Funding, Weaken the Nation: Open scientific research makes the U.S. stronger. Cutting funding risks national competitiveness and security.

I am alarmed by the proposed cuts to U.S. funding for basic research, analyzed here, and the impact this would have for U.S. competitiveness in AI and other areas.
Bar chart of AUROC scores for model recognition of non-public and public data across GPT versions, highlighting performance differences.
May 28, 2025

Did GPT-4o Train on O’Reilly Books?: Study shows OpenAI’s model can identify verbatim excerpts from paywalled books

A study co-authored by tech-manual publisher Tim O’Reilly shows that OpenAI trained GPT-4o on parts of his company’s books that were not made freely available.
DeepSeek computation diagram showing transformer blocks, multi-head attention, and routing, using FP8 and BF16 precision.
May 28, 2025

How DeepSeek Did It: Researchers describe training methods and hardware choices for DeepSeek’s V3 and R1 models

DeepSeek made headlines late last year, when it built a state-of-the-art, open-weights large language model at a cost far lower than usual. The upstart developer shared new details about its method.
Side-by-side of a fern leaf and its digital code representation, illustrating nature's pattern-to-code transformation.
May 28, 2025

Google I/O Overdrive: Google’s new AI offerings include Veo 3 video generator, lightweight Gemma 3n, updates to Gemini Pro and Ultra, and more

Google revamped its roster of models, closed and open, and added more AI-powered features to its existing products.
AI model performance comparison chart: Claude Opus 4, Sonnet 4, Sonnet 3.7, OpenAI o3, GPT-4.1, and Gemini 2.5 Pro.
May 28, 2025

Claude 4 Advances Code Generation: Anthropic debuts new Claude 4 Sonnet and Claude 4 Opus models, featuring top benchmarks in coding

Anthropic continued its tradition of building AI models that raise the bar in coding tasks.

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