AboutLetters from Andrew NgPersonal messages to the AI communityAI CareersAI at Work, Quantified: Gallup poll shows AI boosts productivity, but many workers haven't tried itHalf of workers in the United States used AI at work at least a few times last year, a sign of steadily rising AI adoption in U.S. workplaces.AI CareersAssistants That Assist Consistently: Large language models can drift drift from helpful personas to harmful ones, but new research aims to stabilize themTypically, large language models are trained to act as helpful, harmless, honest assistants. However, during long or emotionally charged conversations, traits can emerge that are less beneficial. Researchers devised a way to steady the assistant personas of LLMs.AI CareersThat Feeling Of Job Insecurity (And What You Can Do About It): In times of economic and technological uncertainty, build on things that tend to remain stable. Community and skills are likely to weather shifts in business and society.I’ve been hearing from people at all levels of seniority about a feeling of job insecurity.AI CareersMeta Moves to Buy Agent Tech: Meta strikes a deal to acquire Manus, a Singapore-based agentic AI startup with Chinese originsA high-profile acquisition could enable Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp to offer built-in agents that do users’ bidding.AI CareersEducation That Works With — Not Against — AI by Juan M. Lavista Ferres: Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Chief Data Scientist at Microsoft, on assignments that properly test students’ abilitiesA little more than three years ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT, and education changed forever. For students, the ability to generate fluent, credible text on demand in seconds is an incredible new tool. AI CareersBig AI Lures Talent With Huge Pay: Meta’s hiring spree raised compensation for top AI engineers and executivesLeading AI companies fought a ferocious war for talent, luring top talent from competitors with levels of compensation more commonly associated with pro sports.AI CareersHow to Gain New Skills and Sharpen Old Ones: Give yourself a gift this holiday season by taking courses, building projects, and (maybe) reading papers.Another year of rapid AI advances has created more opportunities than ever for anyone — including those just entering the field — to build software.AI CareersDon't Believe The Hype!: AGI is not just around the corner. People who enter AI today have huge opportunities to contribute to the field.I recently received an email titled “An 18-year-old’s dilemma: Too late to contribute to AI?” Its author, who gave me permission to share this, is preparing for college.AI CareersOpenAI Reorganizes For Profit: ChatGPT’s maker completed restructuring, freeing it to go public, make deals with new partnersOpenAI completed its transition from nonprofit to for-profit in a feat of legal engineering that took an army of lawyers, investment bankers, and two state attorneys general 18 months to negotiate.AI CareersIntroducing DeepLearning.AI ProWith exclusive courses, tools, and community, DeepLearning.AI Pro is a universal passport to learn every AI skill that matters.AI CareersLoRA Adapters On Tap: Text-to-LoRA generates task-specific LoRA adapters directly from natural language descriptionsThe approach known as LoRA streamlines fine-tuning by training a small adapter that modifies a pretrained model’s weights at inference. Researchers built a model that generates such adapters directly.AI CareersClaude Levels Up: Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 4.5 and the Claude Agent SDK, and overhauls Claude Code for developersAnthropic updated its mid-size Claude Sonnet model, making it the first member of the Claude family to reach version 4.5. It also enhanced the Claude Code agentic coding tool with long-desired features.AI CareersGenerating Music, Paying Musicians: Sweden’s STIM built an ecosystem for training AI models on copyrighted music and compensating original artistsA Swedish organization that collects royalties on behalf of songwriters and record companies has formed a technology-legal-business ecosystem designed to allow AI developers to use music legally while compensating publishers of recordings and compositions.AI CareersWhat ChatGPT Users Want: ChatGPT users now more likely to be young, female, and seeking info, study showsWhat do ChatGPT’s 700 million weekly active users do with it? OpenAI teamed up with a Harvard economist to find out.AI CareersAI Skills Are Redefining What Makes a Great Developer: The job market for software developers requires knowing how to use AIThere is significant unmet demand for developers who understand AI.Load MoreSubscribe to The BatchStay updated with weekly AI News and Insights delivered to your inbox