October 24, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- AIGC Pika showcased a stylish dollhouse video created inside ChatGPT, highlighting creator workflows that combine conversational prompting with generative video. X / Pika ↗
- Agents Google Cloud promoted Gemini as a persistent cloud agent that can retain context across chat threads, documents, and Jira. X / Google Cloud ↗
- AIGC Krea highlighted Krea 3 editing, letting users modify precise image regions while supporting up to 2,000 generations. X / Krea ↗
- Industry An Apollo analysis reported no clear signs that AI has yet produced broad productivity gains outside the technology sector. Apollo ↗
- Open Source Together Compute emphasized production deployment of open models at scale, focusing on inference economics and enterprise workloads. X / Together Compute ↗
- Industry TechCrunch maintained a running list of AI projects and startups that have shut down or failed to reach sustainability. TechCrunch ↗
- Policy Pennsylvania will require labels on AI-generated advertisements under a new deceptive-advertising measure. The Verge ↗
- AIGC Hyper3D said a minor Rodin update further improves its ability to generate human heads. X / Hyper3D ↗
- Safety Three former OpenAI safety researchers said they were never told what information they allegedly leaked before being fired. The Decoder ↗
- Research A TechCrunch analysis found Grok favored Republicans in forced-choice political prompts, while OpenAI’s model favored Democrats. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents Moonshot’s Kimi K3.1 Pro ranked eleventh in Agent Arena, delivering a 7.6% net improvement across more than 4,000 agent sessions. X / Agent Arena ↗
- Research A study found AI instantly improved junior patent attorneys’ performance while potentially slowing the development of their professional judgment. The Decoder ↗
- AIGC Kling showcased art and design work made with Kling 4, emphasizing motion-oriented generative video workflows. X / Kling ↗
- Models Block’s Dessa model was trained entirely on human speech to detect emotional cues that text-based models often miss. The Decoder ↗
- Agents TechCrunch surveyed AI agents that can operate inside text messages, bringing automated assistance into familiar conversational channels. TechCrunch ↗