October 28, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- AIGC Kling showcased a new collection of action sequences created with Kling 4.0, highlighting movement, rhythm, and shot precision. X / Kling AI ↗
- Funding Crux Labs raised more than $6 million to improve enterprise agents by incorporating human judgment into their workflows. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Funding Solink raised more than $100 million to extract business intelligence from security-camera footage with AI. SiliconANGLE ↗
- Agents Genspark teased SecondBrain VoicePad, a voice-first interface intended to let users operate favorite AI tools through natural speech. X / Genspark ↗
- Open Source Infini-AI-Lab released Hermit, an open-source harness adapter framework designed to connect AI agents with diverse execution environments. MarkTechPost ↗
- Policy Sakana AI published a case study using AI analysis of social media to examine the 2026 U.S. midterm Senate race in Texas. X / Sakana AI ↗
- Models Block unveiled Dessa, a full-duplex speech model trained exclusively on speech for more natural simultaneous listening and speaking. MarkTechPost ↗
- Agents AssemblyAI launched TTS-1, offering voice-agent speech at $15 per million characters with streaming latency below 100 milliseconds. AssemblyAI ↗
- Open Source NVIDIA released open-weight Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a 30-billion-parameter speech model supporting 40 languages and speaker-attributed transcription. NVIDIA Research ↗
- AIGC Ideogram previewed precise editing in Ideogram 4.5, emphasizing more intelligent localized changes to generated images. X / Ideogram ↗
- Funding Jishuo Technology, led by WeRide’s first employee, raised tens of millions of dollars in its first financing round. 量子位 ↗
- Agents A 35-billion-parameter diffusion model entered the agent market, with its developers claiming roughly twice the speed of Jev. 量子位 ↗
- AIGC Luma promoted tools that change an advertisement’s look or location and adapt the result across formats and languages. X / Luma AI ↗
- Industry Sakana AI opened early enterprise access to its Sakana API Platform, adding organizational management around its models. X / Sakana AI ↗