August 8, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry OpenAI added voice interaction to the ChatGPT desktop app, letting users verbally direct the assistant to run multi-step tasks on their computer. IT之家 ↗
- Models Together AI published Moonshot's benchmark of Kimi K3 across major inference providers, arguing evaluated quality often fails to survive the serving stack. X @togethercompute ↗
- Open Source Northeastern and Stanford researchers released Shepherd, an MIT-licensed Python runtime that records agent runs as Git-like traces so meta-agents can fork, replay and revert them. MarkTechPost ↗
- Industry OpenAI disclosed its acquisition of NextSlide, a startup turning prompts, notes and documents into editable presentations, with the team now working on ChatGPT. TechCrunch ↗
- AIGC Together AI showed Seedance 2.5 on its platform generating a 30-second lost-cinema trailer from a single prompt, with cuts and scene changes intact. X @togethercompute ↗
- Agents Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 10M-token-context agentic model licensed for VPC, on-premises and on-device deployment inside the customer boundary. MarkTechPost ↗
- Safety Researchers from PKU, UCLA and UMD introduced Trace-and-Amplify, a framework for collecting training-time reward-hacking trajectories at scale. X @arena ↗
- Policy Residents of Gilroy, California objected after Amazon reportedly used a 45-year-old zoning plan to build an AI data center without a community vote. IT之家 ↗
- Industry Tencent has reportedly made WorkBuddy one of its highest-priority AI applications, clearing internal approvals unusually quickly. IT之家 ↗
- Research A study found readers rated AI-generated short stories above human-written ones, but their ratings dropped once they were told a machine wrote them. The Decoder ↗
- AIGC PixVerse detailed a split-control workflow where a reference video fixes identity, timing and camera motion while the prompt rebuilds world, wardrobe and VFX. X @PixVerse_ ↗
- Industry Backflip AI released a second model converting 3D scans into editable parametric CAD via a Fusion 360 add-in, cutting hours of digitization to minutes. The Decoder ↗
- Industry Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman, co-author of a paper on AI-driven human extinction, has joined OpenAI to work on AI safety research. The Decoder ↗
- Research Weather scientists said they were surprised by DeepMind's hurricane model, which they credit with buying operational forecasters roughly an extra day of lead time. Ars Technica ↗