September 22, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- AIGC Pika launched Swap Anything, a video-editing app that changes casts, wardrobes, settings, or props while preserving motion and timing. X / Pika ↗
- Funding Firecrawl raised $75 million as demand grows for web data infrastructure tailored to AI training and agent retrieval. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Open Source Huawei released Cangjie programming language 1.2.0 with stronger cross-platform support, compiler improvements, and expanded tooling. IT之家 ↗
- Funding Snorkel AI tripled its valuation to $3.5 billion as enterprises increase spending on specialized training data and labeling. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents Rabbit introduced an AI agent that runs on phones and computers, removing the requirement for its dedicated R1 hardware. The Verge ↗
- Agents Databricks made Genie One MCP generally available, giving ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and custom agents a unified interface for governed data access. X / Databricks ↗
- Open Source StepFun open-sourced onPanda, an internal tool for annotating language-model data and inspecting token-level errors. X / StepFun ↗
- Agents Mem0 released DolphinBench, an agent-memory benchmark measuring coding, tool use, retrieval, cost, and latency across multiple harnesses. X / Mem0 ↗
- Open Source Meta open-sourced Astryx, a React design system intended for building agent interfaces and interactive AI applications. InfoQ 中文 ↗
- AIGC Runway launched DIFFUSE, a platform connecting agencies, brands, and studios with AI-native creative talent. X / Runway ↗
- Funding Baselayer raised $35 million to build an identity and trust layer for autonomous agents conducting transactions. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Funding Heidi Health raised $340 million to expand AI agents across global healthcare systems. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Agents Kimi introduced a browser extension that can navigate websites, fill forms, and retrieve information from a sidebar assistant. X / Kimi ↗
- Agents Kantata launched Agent Studio, allowing users to build custom business agents through plain-language instructions. SiliconANGLE ↗