Sep 24, 2025

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A large, blue semiconductor wafer with parallel lines is shown, symbolizing advanced chip technology.
Sep 24, 2025

High Stakes in the U.S.-China AI Chip Race: China’s decision to use domestic AI chips instead of buying from Nvidia signals progress — and newfound confidence — in its own semiconductor industry.

Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.
A large, blue semiconductor wafer with parallel lines is shown, symbolizing advanced chip technology.
Sep 24, 2025

AI Agents Spend Money, Online Betting Automates, ChatGPT Users Shift, Reinforcement Learning Accelerates

The Batch AI News and Insights: Last week, China barred its major tech companies from buying Nvidia chips.
Flowchart shows data reordering, probability sampling, and effective gradient updating in reinforcement learning.
Sep 24, 2025

Faster Reinforcement Learning: New technique auto-selects training examples to speed up fine-tuning

Fine-tuning large language models via reinforcement learning is computationally expensive, but researchers found a way to streamline the process.
FanDuel mobile app screens showing live betting odds and AI-powered sports wagering tools.
Sep 24, 2025

Sports Betting Goes Agentic: Gambling sites roll out AI tools that predict wins and track bets for sports fans

AI agents are getting in on the action of online sports gambling.
Chart details ChatGPT conversations. Writing (28.1%), info-seeking (21.3%), and guidance (28.3%) lead.
Sep 24, 2025

What ChatGPT Users Want: ChatGPT users now more likely to be young, female, and seeking info, study shows

What do ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users do with it? OpenAI teamed up with a Harvard economist to find out.
Central AI agent icon links to merchant, cart, and payment symbols, illustrating agentic payments process.
Sep 24, 2025

Agents of Commerce: Google’s AP2 gives developers new tools to build agentic payments

Google launched an open protocol for agentic payments that enables agents based on any large language model to purchase items over the internet.

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