Sep 17, 2025

6 Posts

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

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

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

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

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

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

3 min read

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