August 6, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry OpenAI's first Jony Ive-designed device is reportedly a hockey-puck-sized smart speaker priced between $300 and $400, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents OpenAI put Codex Security Review into research preview, having the agent inspect GitHub pull requests for security issues using full repository context. X @OpenAIDevs ↗
- Agents Perplexity made GPT-5.6 Terra the default model for all Perplexity Computer subagents, saying it scores eleven points above Sonnet on WANDR. X @perplexity_ai ↗
- Models Moonshot AI's open-weight Kimi K3 became generally available in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding, hosted by Fireworks AI. X @github ↗
- Funding Naïve raised $28.5 million to automate the administrative grunt work of incorporating and running a company. TechCrunch ↗
- AIGC Meshy upgraded Multi-View Image to 3D so textures are now generated from multiple reference views rather than a single one. X @MeshyAI ↗
- Agents Cursor detailed its Router, which classifies requests and routes them across Grok 4.5, GPT-5.6 Sol and Opus 5 to cut latency and cost. X @cursor_ai ↗
- AIGC ChatGPT can now call Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom directly, letting users retouch and design inside the chat without leaving the conversation. IT之家 ↗
- AIGC ElevenLabs shipped Dubbing v2 on its API, adding regional accent accuracy and letting enterprises bring their own transcripts and regenerate only edited segments. X @ElevenLabs ↗
- Open Source Unsloth released DSpark, which makes DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 GGUF builds generate roughly 1.4 to 2 times faster locally with no accuracy change. X @UnslothAI ↗
- Research A community effort pointed coding agents at ICML 2026, with over 1,200 people reproducing more than 2,000 papers in the largest conference reproducibility audit yet. X @Gradio ↗
- AIGC Luma Labs added MiniMax H3 to Luma Agents, generating up to 15 seconds of 2K video with native stereo sound. X @LumaLabsAI ↗
- Open Source Shanghai AI Lab open-sourced Mobius, an architecture it frames as upgrading knowledge connectivity the way Transformers upgraded token connectivity over RNNs. X @intern_lm ↗
- Open Source Genspark brought its open-source GenOffice suite to Linux, matching the existing Mac and Windows builds. X @genspark_ai ↗