October 13, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- Safety Anthropic warned that even small AI models could self-replicate through vulnerable IoT devices. Ars Technica ↗
- Industry Apple’s iOS 27.2 beta adds French, Japanese, Spanish, and other languages to Siri’s AI features. IT之家 ↗
- Funding Uvi raised $7.5 million to help AI agents learn business context while reducing operating costs by eight times. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Agents Evos raised $9 million to build autonomous workers trained from the knowledge of companies’ most experienced employees. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Agents Forgepoint raised $9.8 million to automate custom price quotes for manufacturing companies. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Agents Anthropic reportedly rebuilt a version-control system with seven people in five months because Claude generated code too quickly for Git workflows. InfoQ中文 ↗
- Safety Researchers said new OpenAI and Google AI models can still be manipulated into generating non-consensual nude images. Ars Technica ↗
- Funding Scimplify raised $25 million to use AI in challenging China’s dominance of critical-material supply chains. TechCrunch ↗
- Industry Adobe used Prometheus to identify why a GPU had remained idle for 11 days in its AI infrastructure. InfoQ中文 ↗
- Agents SolarWinds introduced Avior, combining AI agents with deterministic execution for enterprise IT operations. SiliconANGLE ↗
- AIGC Recraft showcased Recraft V4.1 through surreal image prompts featuring frozen lakes, wildlife, and cinematic landscapes. X / Recraft ↗
- Agents StepFun launched STEPX Neo, its first agent-native smartphone, initially targeting creators and early adopters. 量子位 ↗
- Open Source Liquid AI released LFM2.5-24B-A2B, a 2-billion-active-parameter MoE model designed for on-device agents. MarkTechPost ↗
- Industry MemSilicon completed fabrication of a high-density 1T4R 1Gb RRAM chip, described as an international first. 量子位 ↗