July 30, 2026

Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.

⚡ Quick hits
Jul 31, 5:08 AM ETAgents Nous Research shipped three integration paths letting its Hermes Agent work inside Buzz, Block's Apache-2.0 Nostr workspace shared by humans and agents. MarkTechPost ↗
Jul 31, 4:45 AM ETModels Alibaba released Qwen-Audio-3.0-ASR-Flash, a speech recognition model upgraded for context consistency and domain-term recognition. X @Alibaba_Qwen ↗
Jul 31, 4:32 AM ETOpen Source Tencent Hunyuan said its open-source Hy-MT2 translation models passed 700,000 downloads since May, with the 1.8B variant topping Hugging Face trending. X @TencentHunyuan ↗
Jul 31, 4:28 AM ETAIGC Hands-on tests found MiniMax H3 renders hand-drawn effects, script typography and subtitle animation inside generation, defaulting to 2K with native stereo audio. 量子位 ↗
Jul 31, 3:22 AM ETIndustry miHoYo founder Cai Haoyu's studio Anuttacon halted its AI game, chatbot and video model, shifting nearly 90% of compute to LLMs and agents. 量子位 ↗
Jul 31, 3:06 AM ETIndustry Skywork said the first batch of its newly launched AI Hardware Family sold out within a week of the official launch. X @Skywork_ai ↗
Jul 31, 2:47 AM ETIndustry China's Xuexi Qiangguo app spread an AI community to 68 cities in two weeks, bundling Zhipu, MiniMax, PixVerse and WPS tools into one AI Super Card. 量子位 ↗
Jul 31, 2:10 AM ETAIGC Alibaba's Wan added sketch-to-image to its Realtime mode, turning stick figures and rough shapes into finished images as you draw. X @Alibaba_Wan ↗
Jul 31, 1:06 AM ETModels PolyAI released Dialog-RSN-1, an audio-native model fusing turn-taking, recognition, function calling and response generation with sub-300ms latency on A100s. MarkTechPost ↗
Jul 30, 10:02 PM ETAIGC MiniMax H3 went live across third-party creative platforms the same day, including Runway, Krea, Pika's MCP, Lovart, Vercel AI Gateway and Video Arena. X @runwayml ↗
Jul 30, 8:00 PM ETAgents Replit launched Replit Design with hundreds of designer-made templates spanning mobile screens, landing pages and social posts, so builds never start blank. X @Replit ↗
Jul 30, 7:25 PM ETIndustry Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness sold most of its public book to Citadel after assets halved to $10 billion, but kept its $5 billion Anthropic stake. TechCrunch ↗
Jul 30, 7:08 PM ETIndustry Reddit beat estimates with $805 million revenue but fell over 10% after hours as US daily users slipped and AI search referrals turned choppy. TechCrunch ↗
Jul 30, 4:36 PM ETResearch Google Research published the Science One Framework, an autonomous research agent whose Chain-of-Evidence design produced zero phantom references where baselines hallucinated up to 21%. Google Research ↗
Jul 30, 4:01 PM ETAIGC Krea said off-the-shelf image models failed to learn the Doodles art style, so it trained a custom Krea 2 LoRA with artist Burnt Toast for on-brand output. X @krea_ai ↗
Jul 30, 1:00 PM ETResearch Microsoft Research unveiled Echoverse, twelve co-evolving synthetic worlds for computer-use agents; a 9B model trained on it jumped from 36.5% to 67.1% across fourteen domains. Microsoft Research ↗
Jul 30, 12:47 PM ETAgents Cognition said Devin now natively supports GitHub stacked PRs, breaking large changes into reviewable diffs and fixing review comments across an entire stack. X @cognition ↗
Jul 30, 12:26 PM ETAgents GitHub put stacked pull requests into public preview, letting teams split large changes into ordered PRs reviewed in parallel and merged together with automatic rebasing. GitHub Changelog ↗
Jul 30, 12:09 PM ETIndustry Okta is acquiring AI identity-security startup Permiso for just under $200 million in a nearly all-cash deal, adding threat detection for AI agents and machine identities. TechCrunch ↗
Jul 30, 12:04 PM ETSafety Goodfire traced a drunk-driving prompt to two competing neuron sets in Qwen3 and cut harmful endorsements from 30/48 by boosting the five impairment neurons fourfold. X @GoodfireAI ↗
Jul 30, 12:00 PM ETResearch Microsoft Research introduced EvoLib, which distills a model's own inference-time experience into reusable skills and insights, beating top retrieval-based memory baselines without labels. Microsoft Research ↗
Jul 30, 11:28 AM ETAIGC ElevenLabs launched Character Casting in ElevenCreative Audiobooks, auto-detecting every character in a manuscript, proposing voices, and pre-filling pronunciations across chapters. X @ElevenLabs ↗
Jul 30, 11:19 AM ETIndustry British AI neocloud Nscale is buying Ray creator Anyscale for $1.65 billion, adding a workload-scaling software layer atop its data centers and orchestration business. TechCrunch ↗
Jul 30, 10:51 AM ETAgents Cursor said 56% of its merged pull requests now come from cloud agents, up from one in ten last December, as agents take on longer end-to-end tasks. X @cursor_ai ↗
Jul 30, 8:59 AM ETAIGC Luma AI shipped Layers in Luma Agents, powered by Uni-1, letting users extract editable layers from any generated or uploaded image and keep restyling by chat. X @LumaLabsAI ↗
Jul 30, 8:47 AM ETPolicy The FCC's import ban on new Chinese robots and connected power inverters took effect, covering any wireless sensing ground robot over 2kg, including vacuums and mowers. The Decoder ↗
Jul 30, 7:55 AM ETAgents Sakana AI's defense and intelligence volunteers placed fifth among 850-plus teams at Diver OSINT CTF 2026, using open-source-intelligence analysis agents built on Fugu-ultra 1.1. X @SakanaAILabs ↗

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