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Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live: voice agents that think while talking

adminSeptember 15, 20260

From Mexico: Google just launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking — native speech-to-speech models with async tools, visual grounding, and (for Extended Thinking) background reasoning while the conversation keeps flowing. Rolling out today.

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Google’s WeatherNext 3 goes hourly — and sharper

adminSeptember 5, 20260

Google DeepMind’s WeatherNext 3 hits Search and Maps with hourly refreshes and up to ~5 km detail — live satellites, cleaner precip, and turbine-height wind.

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DeepMind’s Co-Scientist now runs a furnace, not just a hypothesis

adminAugust 30, 20260

Google DeepMind extended Gemini Co-Scientist into a lab partner that plans experiments, drives a CVD furnace, and drafts papers. Humans still load samples. A 450-review study cut severe fabricated results to 4%.

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DeepMind sealed a Gemini test so neither side could peek

adminAugust 29, 20260

Google DeepMind piloted what it calls the first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier model. Gemini Flash Lite and confidential benchmarks sat in one crypto enclave. Scores were not published.