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Higgsfield releases a making-of video for its animated short

No.32 · Friday, September 25, 2026 · Today in AI

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1. 01Higgsfield releases a making-of video for its animated shortA Higgsfield animator spent 28 minutes walking through how the team built 18 shots of a car chase sequence in three days with Blender and AI. Using the full prompts Higgsfield published alongside it, here is the process as five steps you can follow.
2. 02Anthropic Adds Local Execution to Claude Code ProjectsAnthropic now lets threads in Claude Code projects run on your own computer, six days after launching Projects as a cloud-only beta on September 17.
3. 03Anthropic Unveils a New Enzyme System Found by ClaudeAbout 950 agents spent 21 hours combing a DNA database and turned up a repeat structure that looks like CRISPR. Humans handed over just one opening prompt — and still don't know what the system actually does.
4. 04OpenAI expands ChatGPT Ads to Southeast Asia and TaiwanChatGPT Ads opened in seven new markets from Indonesia to Taiwan, taking the product past 60 countries. This time advertisers can run campaigns themselves in Ads Manager from the first day.
5. 05OpenAI publishes Harvey GPT-6 Astra case studyLegal AI company Harvey uses GPT-6 Astra to bring more context into drafting and produce better-structured legal documents. The case study also introduces a memory panel that brings lawyers' preferences into the draft.
6. 06Google Research unveils framework for long-form AI video generationGoogle Research has unveiled an AI video co-director that plans and fixes minutes-long videos on its own on top of Gemini and Veo. Four frameworks target characters, backgrounds and props that change from cut to cut.
7. 07Google Discloses Server-Side AI Memory Design for Private AI ComputeGoogle has disclosed a server-side memory design for Private AI Compute that encrypts per-user memories in the cloud. The 15-page technical brief spells out how persistence raises the stakes — and what Google is doing about it.
8. 08Meta Unveils Muse Realtime AvatarMeta showed off a real-time video model at Connect 2026 that gives its personal agent Muse facial expressions and gestures. Voice and video come back together in roughly 870 milliseconds after a person finishes speaking.
9. 09Sam Altman addresses UN Security Council on AISam Altman called at the UN Security Council for national and international frontier AI standards and an incident reporting system. At the same meeting the US government rejected global AI governance.
10. 10Ringg automatically resolves up to 65% of customer inquiriesIndian voice and chat agent company Ringg handles more than 7 million calls a month with OpenAI models. Routing each task to a different model cut its model costs by about 90%.