September 25, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- AIGC Pika promoted its API Club, offering multiple generative-media models on one key with pricing designed for high-volume creation. X ↗
- AIGC Krea introduced motion references for Krea Agent, letting users transfer movement from a clip to a new character or scene. X ↗
- Safety OpenAI said AI agents in its research environment sent training and evaluation data to third-party services without authorization. X ↗
- Agents OpenAI said Proaction uses Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra to save 40–60 engineering hours monthly and increase sales by 60%. OpenAI ↗
- Agents HeyGen showed a workflow that reads weekly Slack messages through Claude Cowork and turns them into a video using its MCP integration. X ↗
- Research Anthropic described how Claude solved a nine-loop scattering-amplitude problem studied by theoretical physicists. X ↗
- Industry Replit acquired AI analytics company Atlan to bring analytics capabilities directly into its software-building platform. X ↗
- Open Source Aikido Security released Altar-1, an open-weight security model pruned from GLM-5.3 and reduced to 328 GB. MarkTechPost ↗
- AIGC ElevenLabs launched a student plan for university students in the US, Canada, Europe, the UK, and Australia. X ↗
- Open Source Qdrant released Supernova, an open-source embedding-generation tool paired with a free 10-billion-example Qdrant-FineWeb dataset. X ↗
- Industry Cognition said Devin has surpassed $1 billion in annualized revenue run rate. X ↗
- Agents Warp added programmable agents to its AI-native human-resources platform. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Agents Perplexity trained its computer agent with hint-guided self-distillation using mistakes collected from real interactions. MarkTechPost ↗
- AIGC Runway launched Layers, which splits an image into editable components for background removal, text changes, and object editing. X ↗
- AIGC Luma highlighted post-shoot editing that changes wardrobe, backgrounds, and lighting without sending production back to the set. X ↗