Jan 09, 2026

6 Posts

More Affordable Reasoning: Canadian researchers find capping context helps models better retrieve data
Jan 09, 2026

More Affordable Reasoning: Canadian researchers find capping context helps models better retrieve data

One way to improve a reasoning model’s performance is to let it produce a longer chain of thought. However, attending to ever-longer contexts can become expensive, and making that attention more efficient requires changes to a model’s architecture.

2 min read
Copilot’s Users Change Hour to Hour: Microsoft study shows people use AI very differently at different times or on different devices
Jan 09, 2026

Copilot’s Users Change Hour to Hour: Microsoft study shows people use AI very differently at different times or on different devices

What do users want from AI? The answer depends on when and how they use it, a new study shows.

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Lingua Franca for Science Labs: SAIL’s Science Context Protocol helps AI Agents communicate about local and virtual experiments
Jan 09, 2026

Lingua Franca for Science Labs: SAIL’s Science Context Protocol helps AI Agents communicate about local and virtual experiments

An open protocol aims to enable AI agents to conduct scientific research autonomously across disciplinary and institutional boundaries.

3 min read
Teaching Models to Tell the Truth: OpenAI fine-tuned a version of GPT-5 to confess when it was breaking the rules
Jan 09, 2026

Teaching Models to Tell the Truth: OpenAI fine-tuned a version of GPT-5 to confess when it was breaking the rules

Large language models occasionally conceal their failures to comply with constraints they’ve been trained or prompted to observe. Researchers trained an LLM to admit when it disobeyed.

2 min read
Build with Andrew!: AI enables people who don’t know any programming to build their own web apps using AI. Learn how in just 30 minutes with DeepLearningAI’s course “Build with Andrew.”
Jan 09, 2026

Build with Andrew!: AI enables people who don’t know any programming to build their own web apps using AI. Learn how in just 30 minutes with DeepLearningAI’s course “Build with Andrew.”

We just launched a course that shows people who have never coded before, in less than 30 minutes, how to describe an idea for an app and build it using AI.

2 min read
LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less
Jan 09, 2026

LLMs Go To Confession, Automated Scientific Research, What Copilot Users Want, Reasoning For Less

The Batch AI News and Insights: We just launched a course that shows people who have never coded before, in less than 30 minutes, how to describe an idea for an app and build it using AI.

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