September 28, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- AIGC Kuaishou says Kling 4.0 will launch in October with 4K HDR and 30-second video generation. IT之家 ↗
- Agents Fireworks AI introduced FireRouter, routing routine requests to open models while reserving Claude Opus for harder tasks. X / Fireworks AI ↗
- AIGC Runway added ElevenLabs v4, offering more expressive narration and character dialogue inside its video-creation platform. X / Runway ↗
- Agents Cloudflare introduced an agent-development lifecycle intended to replace traditional software-development lifecycles with continuous agent evaluation and governance. InfoQ 中文 ↗
- Models Grok 4.7 became available through Amazon Bedrock, extending xAI’s model reach into AWS enterprise infrastructure. AWS Machine Learning ↗
- Industry Character.AI began rolling out ShortSqueak and PipSqueak 3 as new free Chat Styles for conversational customization. X / Character.AI ↗
- Funding Modal Labs is reportedly nearing a $750 million funding round at a $15.75 billion valuation. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents Replit promoted Ask Replit, which turns natural-language questions into charts, data pipelines, or working automations. X / Replit ↗
- Safety 1Password introduced task-based verification to limit AI-agent access according to the specific action being performed. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Agents Shopify opened checkout flows to browser-based AI agents, allowing automated systems to complete purchases on merchants’ behalf. TechCrunch ↗
- Research LlamaIndex said document parsing still challenges frontier vision-language models because forms encode fields, groups, and spatial relationships. X / LlamaIndex ↗
- Agents Google is replacing Gemini’s Gems with reusable skills, shifting customization toward more structured, action-oriented workflows. TechCrunch ↗
- Research Goodfire argued that sparse autoencoders are best for exploratory interpretability, while targeted probes work better for known questions. X / Goodfire AI ↗
- Safety Perplexity said eight of ten third-party sandbox platforms it tested had similar network-policy bypass vulnerabilities. X / Perplexity ↗
- AIGC ElevenLabs announced v4 and v4 Turbo improvements, including IPA pronunciation control, expressive delivery tags, and discounted API access. X / ElevenLabs ↗