September 17, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- AIGC Krea added a video editor to Krea Agent for assembling generated clips, extending scenes, and adding audio. X / Krea ↗
- Open Source Character AI announced an open-source image system designed to preserve characters across styles, scenes, and camera positions. X / Character AI ↗
- Models Sakana AI released Fugu Max and Fugu Ultra v2, describing them as systems for orchestrating the Pareto frontier. X / Sakana AI ↗
- Agents Replit introduced Custom Connectors, allowing workspace administrators to connect supported public services without waiting for first-party integrations. X / Replit ↗
- AIGC Pika relaunched its AI-video platform with lower pricing, consolidated model access, and migrated legacy accounts. X / Pika ↗
- Agents Cognition said Devin was given a Ramp card and instructed to generate revenue through outreach, product building, and payments. X / Cognition ↗
- Research World Labs showed Atlas using 32 images of NVIDIA’s Voyager headquarters to enable real-time spatial flight through the building. X / World Labs ↗
- Safety Goodfire reported that probes monitoring Kimi K3 reduced LLM-monitoring costs by 90% with an approximately 1% precision loss. X / Goodfire AI ↗
- AIGC Figma introduced a node that connects any Figma frame into Weave workflows for branded content creation, iteration, translation, and transformation. X / Figma ↗
- AIGC Runway introduced Enhance Frame Rate, which converts footage to 25, 30, 48, 60, or 120 frames per second. X / Runway ↗
- Open Source Unsloth released a Docker image supporting local training and inference for more than 500 models through GUI and notebook workflows. X / Unsloth AI ↗
- Open Source Weaviate 1.39 added 4-bit Rotational Quantization to reduce vector memory use while maintaining strong recall. X / Weaviate ↗
- Research Google DeepMind said AlphaGenome Atlas mapped more than 2,500 regulatory patterns and is freely accessible to researchers. X / Google DeepMind ↗
- Agents ElevenLabs said Cadence uses ElevenAgents to manage chronic-care workflows across more than 20 U.S. health systems. X / ElevenLabs ↗