AISep 24, 2026TechCrunch
Google tests letting Gemini call businesses for you
Google’s Call for Me lets Gemini dial businesses from your Pixel number — stock checks, reservations, holds — while you watch a live transcript and can seize the line.
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AISep 24, 2026WIRED
Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel Phones
Duplex’s sequel is live on Pixel 11: Gemini Call for Me books barbers and checks hardware stock in English, then politely hangs up when the shop can’t help.
AISep 24, 2026The Verge
Google is sending an AI satellite into space next week
Google’s Project Suncatcher puts TPUs on a Falcon 9 next week — a methodical first flight toward orbital AI compute, not a finished data center in the sky.
AISep 24, 2026NVIDIA Blog
How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic
NVIDIA, DeepMind, and EMBL-EBI open predicted structures for 2,800-plus viral protein complexes — stockpiling structural knowledge before the next outbreak, not after.
AISep 24, 2026The Verge
Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief
New DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in refinement and should ship much earlier than year-end — Google’s bid to end a long flagship drought.
AISep 23, 2026MarkTechPost
Google Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS With Prompt-Based Voice Design
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS add prompt-built voices, 2,000+ library options, and line-by-line stage directions — API-only, with SynthID on every clip.
AISep 23, 2026Google DeepMind
Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory
Google’s Private AI Compute adds encrypted server-side memory with device-held keys—cloud-scale continuity without handing Google the vault keys.
AISep 23, 2026Google DeepMind
Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Google DeepMind ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and Flash-Lite TTS — generative voice design, replication with consent checks, and SynthID on every clip.
AISep 23, 2026TechCrunch
YouTube will let you build your own algorithm with AI
Custom feeds let viewers prompt Gemini for a pinned YouTube tab — a user-shaped algorithm that still sits beside, not instead of, the main For You machine.
AISep 23, 2026TechCrunch
Ema raises $77M as AI starts eating into enterprise software and services
Ema’s $77M Series B bets that multi-agent “AI employees” can wrap SaaS today and replace chunks of it tomorrow — services margins included.
AISep 22, 2026The Verge
Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta
a16z’s free SF “academy” skips degrees and homework for co-ops at OpenAI, Meta, Palantir and friends — a talent pipe dressed as school.
AISep 22, 2026The Verge
Anthropic launches Claude Opus 5.5 with stricter safeguards for cybersecurity
After a wave of eval-time hacks, Anthropic ships Opus 5.5 with harder sandbox edges — and routes hot cyber asks to a weaker model.