August 26, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Funding Deep Cogito raised $43 million to develop AI models designed to improve themselves through iterative learning. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Open Source Hugging Face began using the open-weight Inkling-Small model to turn research-paper abstracts into concise summaries. X (@huggingface) ↗
- Agents GitHub introduced Agentic Workflows for automating code changes, organization-wide rollouts and code-quality assessments at scale. X (@GitHubNext) ↗
- Agents AWS added AgentCore Evaluations for assessing agents built with any framework through configurable evaluators and production monitoring. AWS Machine Learning Blog ↗
- Research Google Research introduced GlucoFM, a foundation model for extracting health insights from continuous glucose-monitoring data. Google Research ↗
- Agents VS Code added a rubber-duck command that asks a complementary model to review agent work for missed details and edge cases. X (@code) ↗
- AIGC Runway added Meta’s Muse Image to its platform alongside its existing image and video generation models. X (@runwayml) ↗
- Agents Bolt introduced an agentic security audit that scans applications, applies patches and hardens detected vulnerabilities. X (@boltdotnew) ↗
- Agents Gemini Live added autonomous multi-step tasks, Gmail actions, Daily Brief access and personalized assistance based on previous conversations. X (@GeminiApp) ↗
- Research Anthropic gave independent researchers access to privacy-preserved Claude usage data for studying collaboration, wellbeing and real-world productivity. X (@AnthropicAI) ↗
- Models Harvey and Fireworks post-trained Tenet from Kimi K3 for long-horizon legal work, nearly doubling fully passed benchmark tasks at similar cost. X (@FireworksAI_HQ) ↗
- Research Goodfire presented a more token-efficient method for identifying chain-of-thought branching tokens that materially alter model outcomes. X (@GoodfireAI) ↗
- AIGC Harvard Business School used HeyGen LiveAvatar to create interactive AI avatars of professors for its Foundry entrepreneurship program. X (@HeyGen) ↗
- Agents Devin sessions can now launch managed subagents with separate virtual machines, and those child sessions can spawn further subagents. X (@cognition) ↗