September 30, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Industry Cursor highlighted Innate, a seven-person startup building capable robots for everyday life. X @cursor_ai ↗
- Funding Flow Engineering raised backing from Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia at a reported $750 million valuation. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents Google open-sourced AX, a Kubernetes-style orchestrator designed to coordinate autonomous AI agents. InfoQ中文 ↗
- AIGC Volcano Engine released a speech-content editing model that lets users modify recorded audio by changing text. InfoQ中文 ↗
- Open Source Fireworks made GLM 5.3 Flash available for training through its Serverless Training API with vision and text support. X @FireworksAI_HQ ↗
- Funding ElevenLabs raised funding at a $22 billion valuation, doubling its previous mark as demand for AI-generated voice accelerates. TechCrunch ↗
- AIGC Pika added Ideogram 4.5, enabling image editing workflows designed to preserve surrounding details during repeated changes. X @pika_labs ↗
- Policy Reddit said it will end RSS feeds and public API access, citing the growing burden of AI bots. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents GitHub made Project HydraFusion available in Copilot and GitHub Codespaces, routing tasks across multiple models. X @github ↗
- AIGC HeyGen introduced HeyGen Video, offering business video generation priced from one cent per second through October. X @HeyGen ↗
- Policy The FTC opened a broad consumer-protection probe involving OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI laboratories. The Decoder ↗
- Agents DoorDash launched a textable AI agent that helps customers order food through conversational messages. TechCrunch ↗
- Industry Destro AI is developing systems that help robots and humans coordinate more effectively in shared workspaces. TechCrunch ↗
- AIGC Recraft said its V4.1 Flash model became the fastest model on the Design Arena leaderboard. X @recraftai ↗
- Safety Anthropic reported that Zhipu's open-weight GLM-5.3 nearly matched Claude Mythos Preview on exploit-building evaluations. The Decoder ↗