August 25, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Agents OpenAI released an Admin plugin enabling ChatGPT Work and Codex administrators to manage users and permissions conversationally. IT之家 ↗
- Industry Figma increased AI add-on credits across every plan, doubling Pro allowances and raising Organization and Enterprise allocations by 60%. Figma ↗
- Industry Nvidia previewed Dynamo shadow engine recovery, which maintains a standby LLM engine to reduce lost inference capacity after crashes. NVIDIA AI ↗
- AIGC Adobe added Animation Generator to Firefly, turning children’s ideas and other prompts into animated visual creations. Adobe Firefly ↗
- Models Together AI added Qwen3.8-27B support for fine-tuning and deployment through dedicated model inference infrastructure. Together AI ↗
- Research Google introduced AgentHands, an XR research prototype generating synchronized, spatially grounded hand gestures for conversational agents. Google Research ↗
- Agents Gemini’s macOS app added voice-driven dictation, file summarization, and text rewriting directly inside other application windows. Gemini ↗
- Research GitHub Next proposed a “knowledge compressor” for rigorously shrinking accumulated specifications and reducing the context consumed by coding agents. GitHub Next ↗
- Agents Anthropic unified Claude’s memory across chat and Cowork, while letting users inspect, edit, delete, or disable remembered topics. Claude ↗
- AIGC Recraft redesigned Studio around Create, Edit, and Chat tabs while retaining vector editing, styles, and mockup workflows. Recraft ↗
- AIGC HeyGen removed LiveAvatar API concurrency limits and advertised scalable full-body 1080p avatar sessions starting at one cent per minute. HeyGen ↗
- Open Source IBM released Apache-2.0-licensed Granite 4.2 reasoning models in 3B, 8B, and 30B sizes, featuring tool calling and up to 512K context. Hugging Face ↗
- Industry AI presentation company Gamma acquired design startup Lica, whose founders will lead a new design research laboratory. TechCrunch ↗
- AIGC ElevenLabs launched Composer for Music v2, enabling section-level editing of lyrics, arrangement, duration, tempo, and key. ElevenLabs ↗