September 29, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry Tesla’s supervised FSD received approval in Croatia, bringing its European availability to eight countries. IT之家 ↗
- Agents Apple expanded iOS 27 Shortcuts with a “Use Model” action that can query online AI for current information. IT之家 ↗
- Safety Simon Willison summarized Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team material on testing advanced models for dangerous capabilities. Simon Willison ↗
- Open Source NVIDIA highlighted Kumo, an open foundation model for tabular data developed by the Kumo team. X / NVIDIA AI ↗
- Industry Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia received another update, according to The Verge. The Verge ↗
- Models Liquid AI released d1, a decision model that returns calibrated probabilities without generating output tokens. MarkTechPost ↗
- AIGC NVIDIA said Physis-Lang ranked first on the Physics-IQ verified image-to-video leaderboard with Cosmos models. X / NVIDIA AI ↗
- Funding OpenAI was reportedly discussing a $30 billion funding round at a valuation of $1.4 trillion. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents MongoDB announced a partnership that pairs Cognition’s Devin with its application-modernization platform. X / MongoDB ↗
- Agents OpenAI introduced a Decisions API powered by GPT-6 Luna for classification, routing, and other real-time choices. X / OpenAI Developers ↗
- AIGC Figma said GPT-6.1 Sol is now available inside Figma Make for AI-assisted app creation. X / Figma ↗
- Funding Nebius opened its 2026 Physical AI Awards, offering five prizes worth $150,000 in compute credits. MarkTechPost ↗
- Safety OpenAI said Codex Security Cloud now includes cyber-capable Daybreak Blue models and scans entire GitHub repositories. X / OpenAI ↗
- Research Microsoft Research introduced Quine, an early multimodal world-model effort for representing biology across disciplines. X / Microsoft Research ↗
- Industry Bolt announced the acquisition of AI app-building startup Dokai, citing a shared focus on natural-language software creation. X / Bolt ↗