September 15, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry Mistral announced a partnership with Mozilla to bring privacy, control, and user choice to AI-assisted browsing. X / Mistral AI ↗
- AIGC Alibaba Wan opened a Wan 3.0 AI-video advertising contest offering $3,000 in prizes and production credits through September 24. X / Alibaba Wan ↗
- Industry Recraft announced that it has joined Tech Nation’s Future Fifty, a UK growth program for leading technology companies. X / Recraft ↗
- AIGC Meshy launched Ultra 4K, which it calls the first AI 3D model generation system supporting 4K geometry resolution. X / Meshy ↗
- Agents Manus launched Learn AI, working with schools and training providers to help learners move from studying AI to applying it. X / Manus ↗
- Industry Qualcomm, ZTE Nubia, and Doubao announced a collaboration to advance personal AI assistants on smartphones. 量子位 ↗
- Agents Sakana AI added PowerPoint export to its research agent, preserving editable text, shapes, tables, charts, formatting, templates, and source links. X / Sakana AI ↗
- Models Prior Labs released TabPFN-3.5, which reportedly surpassed the winning Otto Kaggle solution with default settings on tabular data. MarkTechPost ↗
- Models Tsinghua University and LimiX jointly released LimiX-2, a structured-data foundation model that topped an international evaluation leaderboard. 量子位 ↗
- Benchmark Bilibili launched an AI Arena where 100 leading models compete, with GPT-6 reportedly ranking first at launch. 量子位 ↗
- Research Google Research published a study on learned request routing for disaggregated LLM serving, reporting higher goodput than common routing baselines. arXiv ↗
- Safety Researchers proposed modular defenses against prompt injection, memory poisoning, and tool manipulation in tool-integrated language-model agents. arXiv ↗
- Agents Sakana AI added Interactive Reading, letting users question documents, jump to discussed passages, and open cited evidence directly. X / Sakana AI ↗
- Industry OpenAI announced free in-person ChatGPT workshops for 1,000 older adults across ten United States cities. OpenAI ↗
- AIGC Together AI made MiniMax H3 available, a 33-billion-parameter multimodal video model generating four-to-15-second clips with native stereo audio. X / Together AI ↗
- AIGC Luma AI introduced Camera Angles, turning one photograph into multiple consistent views of the same subject. X / Luma AI ↗
- Funding AIUC raised $40 million to audit frontier models and certify AI-agent safety. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Open Source Perplexity detailed CobbleDB, which cut median batch-read latency from 31.4 milliseconds to 5.60 milliseconds. X / Perplexity ↗
- Agents Meta now lets AI agents configure WhatsApp Business accounts, reducing setup work for merchants. TechCrunch ↗
- Research Google Research introduced Retrieve-for-Train to reduce inference bottlenecks in complex AI search systems. Google Research ↗
- Safety Mem0 introduced Gateway, which gives agents scoped credentials for actions such as payments, refunds, and page archiving. X / Mem0 ↗
- Industry AWS published guidance on Bedrock prompt caching to reduce latency and cost for repeated model requests. AWS ↗
- Research IBM Research described ALTK-Evolve, a method for testing whether agents repeat successful behavior consistently. Hugging Face ↗
- Agents Cognition added a Mac virtual machine to Devin, enabling iOS simulation, app testing, and Slack screen recordings. X / Cognition ↗
- Funding Profound raised $180 million in Series D funding to improve brands’ visibility across AI services. TechCrunch ↗
- AIGC Krea Agent demonstrated image-to-video creation with full camera control by first building a 3D scene from an input image. X / Krea ↗
- Agents Salesforce in Claude entered beta with access to customer accounts, opportunities, pipelines, and 37 sales skills. X / Claude ↗
- Funding Keewano launched an agent-focused database after raising $12 million in funding. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Industry Agility Robotics said Digit 5 can work beside people without safety fences by stopping and squatting when needed. The Decoder ↗
- Models Salesforce debuted Koa, a specialized model designed to reason over CRM data. SiliconANGLE ↗