Sep 17, 2025

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Cartoon of developer fixing failing AI tests by marking them as passed without solving the code.
Sep 17, 2025

Agentic Coding and Agentic Software Testing Go Together: Agentic coding can make mistakes, but agentic testing can find and fix them.

Automated software testing is growing in importance in the era of AI-assisted coding.
Cartoon of developer fixing failing AI tests by marking them as passed without solving the code.
Sep 17, 2025

Drone Swarms Go To War, States Ban AI Mental-Health Treatments, Qwen3-Next Accelerates, Transformers Get Energized

The Batch AI News and Insights: Automated software testing is growing in importance in the era of AI-assisted coding.
Energy-Based Transformer refines predictions step by step, lowering energy for higher context compatibility.
Sep 17, 2025

Transformers Energized: Energy-Based Transformers (EBTs) use gradient descent to gradually predict the next token

A new type of transformer can check its work. Instead of guessing the next output token in one shot like a typical transformer, it starts with a rough version of the token and improves it step by step.
Swarms of military drones flying in formation over a field, showing autonomous AI-driven coordination in warfare.
Sep 17, 2025

Drone Swarms Go to War: Ukraine experiments with small groups of low-contact, high-autonomy drones that strike on initiative

Swarms of drones that coordinate with one another autonomously have become a battlefield staple in Ukraine.
US map showing Nevada and Illinois highlighted in red, marking states that banned AI-driven mental health treatments.
Sep 17, 2025

States Ban AI-Driven Treatments for Mental Health: Illinois follows Nevada, prohibiting certain uses of chatbots unless used by licensed therapists

Illinois became the second U.S. state, after Nevada, to ban AI applications that administer psychotherapy.
Diagram of Qwen3-Next architecture with Mixture of Experts, Gated Attention, and Gated DeltaNet layers.
Sep 17, 2025

Qwen3-Next Accelerates: Alibaba’s new model uses hybrid attention layers and a sparse MoE architecture for speed and performance

Alibaba updated its popular Qwen3 open-weights models with a number of fresh, speed-boosting tweaks.

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