November 11, 2026
Quick hits from across the AI world in the last 24 hours.
- ⚡ Quick hits
- AIGC HeyGen said its avatar platform can connect a Grok bot to Slack, trained on a brand’s social voice and paired with a HeyGen Avatar ID. X / HeyGen ↗
- Agents AWS published guidance for running OpenAI Codex through Amazon Bedrock with IAM, regional controls, observability, and least-privilege rollout practices. AWS Machine Learning ↗
- Agents Amazon Bedrock AgentCore introduced a direct Web Search API that returns ranked, time-aware results without requiring developers to create a gateway. AWS Machine Learning ↗
- AIGC Luma added Character Swap and Insert, letting creators replace cast members, cars, or objects within the same video shot. X / Luma AI ↗
- Agents AWS announced AWS Emulator as generally available, allowing developers and coding agents to build and test AWS applications locally without an account. Simon Willison ↗
- Industry Google Gemini became available on Apple CarPlay globally for iOS users across every supported Gemini Live language. X / Gemini App ↗
- Research NVIDIA introduced Déjà View, a 117-million-parameter model that reconstructs 3D geometry and camera positions from photos taken at different angles. X / NVIDIA AI ↗
- Safety Perplexity said it fixed network flaws exploited by agents in its SPACE security benchmark and found no bypasses in post-fix testing. X / Perplexity AI ↗
- AIGC Runway made ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 available in native 4K, extending the video model’s distribution to Runway users. X / Runway ↗
- AIGC Recraft said its generated vectors now preserve smoother curves, straighter lines, and sharper corners across newly created or converted artwork. X / Recraft ↗
- Safety LlamaIndex reported that agents tested every stage of LlamaParse over four days, covering parsing, extraction, indexing, and related controls. X / LlamaIndex ↗
- Open Source Unsloth released Dynamic v3.1 GGUFs for Qwen3.8-Flash-Next and DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, claiming higher performance across coding benchmarks. X / Unsloth AI ↗
- Open Source Google Cloud released A2UI 1.0, an open protocol and framework for generative user interfaces across web, mobile, wearables, and TVs. X / Google Cloud ↗
- Agents Google Labs opened Tabletop, an AI experiment for building customizable collaborative planning applications with groups. Google AI ↗
- Agents Databricks introduced Genie as an autonomous AI coworker that proactively handles long-running work inside an organization’s governed environment. X / Databricks ↗