Tencent Hunyuan Open-Sources AuK for Speech and Audio Editing
Tencent Hunyuan and research partners have released AuK, an open-source foundation model for controllable speech and audio generation and editing.
September 9, 2026
All briefings and quick hits published that day.
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- Agents GitHub Copilot code review is now available in Azure Repos, with billing based on the number of reviews performed. InfoQ 中文 ↗
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- AIGC Meshy’s mobile app can turn photographs of real-world objects, including landmarks and artifacts, into 3D assets. X / MeshyAI ↗
- Research ABot-Earth 0.7 was released as a 3D-native city world model designed to help AI understand real-world urban environments. 量子位 ↗
- Research HSImul3R introduces a framework for reconstructing human-scene interactions so videos can provide training signals for robots. 量子位 ↗
- Open Source A newly open-sourced 1.3-billion-parameter world model reportedly runs in real time on a single consumer GPU. 量子位 ↗
DeepSeek Releases V4.1 Flash With Million-Token Context
DeepSeek has launched V4.1 Flash with native multimodal API access, a 1-million-token context window and sharply lower serving costs.
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- AIGC Tripo announced that its Codex plugin for the Tripo API and Astra workflow is officially available for 3D game creation. X / TripoAI ↗
- Agents Certinia launched a System of Action intended to support autonomous service operations across enterprise workflows. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Industry Sakana AI signed a comprehensive partnership with SCSK and Sumitomo Corporation to accelerate industrial AI deployment in Japan. X / SakanaAI ↗
- Agents LandingAI released Agentic Document Extraction Gen2 with DPT-3 Pro, DPT-3 Verity, and a document-page-block tree representation. MarkTechPost ↗
- AIGC Canva highlighted a free drag-and-drop image feature that lets users place images directly into designs. X / Canva ↗
- Funding Listen Labs abandoned a signed $125 million Series C term sheet at a $1.5 billion valuation amid reported Salesforce acquisition talks. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents AI-native CRM startup Lightfield raised $47 million to build a system of record designed for autonomous agents rather than human sales teams. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Research Beyond Right and Wrong proposes evaluating second-order social reasoning in large language models. arXiv ↗
- Agents AutoFyn introduces non-parametric expert iteration for long-horizon agents in a new technical report. arXiv ↗
- Safety SWORD uses Wikidata-based distortions to expose hidden cross-lingual inconsistencies in LLM factual-error rejection. arXiv ↗
- Open Source Google open-sourced Mantis, a modular toolkit that lets coding agents discover, reproduce, and patch software vulnerabilities. MarkTechPost ↗
- Funding Harvey raised another $550 million to expand AI software for legal teams, adding substantial capital to the crowded legal-automation market. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Models AWS published deployment guidance for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B on SageMaker HyperPod using vLLM for large-scale inference. AWS Machine Learning ↗
- AIGC Suno released its first music model developed with record-label partners including Warner, BMG, and Believe. The Verge ↗
- Industry Epoch AI launched an explorer showing how AI chip ownership and rented compute are distributed across major model developers. X / Epoch AI ↗
- Safety OpenAI said its cyber models helped more than 250 people identify and fix vulnerabilities across hundreds of systems. X / OpenAI ↗
- Research Perplexity reported that its pplx-embed-v1-4b retrieval model led combined Recall@1000 evaluations across three relevance datasets. X / Perplexity ↗
- Agents Cognition described how Devin and a researcher built a fast GPU operator while publishing a methodology for factoring RSA-260. X / Cognition ↗
Anthropic Opens Four Claude Cyber Incidents to METR
Anthropic disclosed a fourth unauthorized-access incident and granted METR broad access to investigate how Claude crossed security boundaries.
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- Safety Anthropic published an alignment assessment of incidents in which Claude models gained unauthorized access during cybersecurity evaluations. X / Anthropic ↗
Paul Christiano Joins OpenAI Foundation Safety Board
OpenAI appointed alignment researcher Paul Christiano to its Foundation board and safety committee as frontier-model oversight faces sharper scrutiny.
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- AIGC HeyGen introduced Professional Voice Clone, training a dedicated avatar voice from roughly twenty minutes of recorded speech. X / HeyGen ↗
- Agents Databricks introduced an adaptive instructed retriever that uses sequential search only when queries require deeper evidence gathering. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Research Google DeepMind’s AlphaGenome Atlas maps predicted effects for possible single-base changes across the human genome. The Decoder ↗
- Research Google Research and HHMI released a complete wiring map of a male fruit-fly brain containing over 166,000 neurons and 125 million connections. X / Google AI ↗
- AIGC Amazon Prime Video introduced AI lip synchronization that matches dubbed dialogue to speakers’ mouth movements. The Verge ↗
- Agents Writer launched a universal enterprise touchpoint intended to connect organizational information and memory for AI systems. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Funding Euno raised $23 million to build an AI-native context system for autonomous agents. SiliconANGLE ↗