September 15, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- 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 ↗