August 3, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Research MarkTechPost published a hands-on guide to evaluating multimodal vision models with Moonshot's PerceptionBench, using robust data loading and automated LLM judging. MarkTechPost ↗
- Industry A US company's AI now lets Ukraine's low-cost kamikaze drones track targets autonomously, a step toward future swarm attacks. Ars Technica ↗
- Industry OpenAI published an engineering deep dive on rebuilding its voice stack for GPT-Live, routing audio down a fast path and cutting session startup from six network round trips. X @OpenAI ↗
- Agents Vercel launched the v0 API, giving developers programmatic app building: start a chat from a prompt, repo or ZIP, and render a dev-server preview. X @v0 ↗
- Funding The team behind Design Arena raised a $7.9 million seed led by Index Ventures to rank media-generating AI models on human taste judgments. TechCrunch ↗
- Policy An AI-supervised remote exam failed so badly that 58,000 students have been ordered to retake it, renewing scrutiny of automated proctoring. Ars Technica ↗
- AIGC Meshy rolled out 8K texturing for its 3D generation platform, showcasing worn metal, plush and plastic materials rendered at production fidelity. X @MeshyAI ↗
- Open Source Xiaoda Robotics and NTU's S-Lab open-sourced ACE-Data-0, an embodied dataset of 17 million frames across 200 task categories recorded in two real homes. InfoQ 中文 ↗
- Industry Cognition hired former Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal, who stepped down on July 31, as its chief legal and global affairs officer. X @cognition ↗
- Open Source Microsoft Research open-sourced Orchard, a Kubernetes-based framework for training and evaluating agents, with its 3B-active-parameter Orchard-SWE hitting 69.7% on SWE-bench Verified. Microsoft Research ↗
- Safety Interpol said AI has become the core operational driver of cybercrime across Africa, powering scams, fraud and impersonation at growing scale. The Decoder ↗
- Agents ElevenLabs launched ElevenAgents for enterprises, saying over 10 million voice and chat agent conversations already run on the platform weekly with configurable guardrails and regional data residency. X @ElevenLabs ↗
- AIGC Kuaishou's Kling published a Kling MCP tutorial showing agents batch-producing food promo videos, from analyzing creative styles and building storyboards to generating final shots. X @Kling_ai ↗
- AIGC SenseTime open-sourced SenseNova U1.5-Lite-Preview, an 8B unified multimodal model that generates native 4K images and supports pixel-level editing, released on GitHub, Hugging Face and ModelScope. 量子位 ↗