October 31, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- AIGC Dreamina published a Seedance 2.5 Halloween campaign showing prompt-driven video remixing and offering credits for creator submissions. X / Dreamina ↗
- AIGC Luma shared a Halloween short made in its platform, using a comedic story about a character who dislikes raisins. X / Luma Labs ↗
- Safety Parameter Labs found a ChatGPT HTML-preview exploit that could exfiltrate private data; OpenAI patched it and paid a $5,000 bounty. Simon Willison ↗
- Open Source Simon Willison released datasette-llm 0.1a9, extending his lightweight toolkit for running and integrating language models with Datasette. Simon Willison ↗
- Industry Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company does not want to ship AI merely for its own sake, emphasizing usefulness over headline features. TechCrunch ↗
- Agents An AI programming tutor was demonstrated running Python and SQL directly in a browser on a low-end Android phone without a server. InfoQ 中文 ↗
- Models Fireworks AI promoted Nexus as a way to combine specialized models instead of relying on one model that is merely adequate at everything. X / Fireworks AI ↗
- AIGC Lovart highlighted Clyq, a shared 3D space where fashion teams can style, shoot, and plan runway concepts before production. X / Lovart ↗
- Policy Anthropic is watermarking four Claude models, but users can bypass the watermark on Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6 by changing sampling settings. The Decoder ↗
- Agents Latent Space profiled Arca, an agent system designed to perform long-horizon financial work with iterative planning and tool use. Latent Space ↗
- AIGC World Labs posted a Halloween scene featuring its world-generation technology in a playful fantasy battle. X / World Labs ↗
- Agents NVIDIA said AI agents are steering the Allen Telescope Array to search for possible extraterrestrial signals in Northern California. X / NVIDIA AI ↗
- Agents Databricks demonstrated agents querying enterprise data through Genie Ontology, Genie One, MCP, and Unity Gateway. X / Databricks ↗
- AIGC Deemos said its HYPER3D Agentic Mode can reconstruct a mechanical robotic hand’s structure and movements from complex figures. X / DeemosTech ↗
- Industry Google DeepMind said PlanAssist uses Gemini to help UK planning officers accelerate building and renovation decisions. X / Google DeepMind ↗