Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, two new text-to-speech models in its Gemini Audio family. Flash TTS scored 71.4 on the Hume AI Voice Design Benchmark. The models add prompt-based voice design, line-by-line performance direction, and voice-replication safeguards, and they’re rolling out via the Gemini API and Google AI Studio with no open weights.
Quiver launched an agentic developer marketing system that connects product context, customer evidence, campaigns, content, tasks, and results in one workflow. It became available to use starting today. Teams can either use the hosted Quiver service with managed access or self-host a free MIT-licensed edition.
The Verge is covering Meta’s annual September product launch event live in Menlo Park as Mark Zuckerberg delivers the keynote. The event is Meta’s September 2026 launch with Zuckerberg’s speech focused on building a future for everyone. Coverage suggests new updates will follow on AI and smart glasses, including Meta’s Muse AI agent and forthcoming glasses hardware.
NVIDIA released Nemotron 3 Diarization, an open-weight speaker diarization model on Hugging Face for attributing who spoke when in conversations. It tracks up to 8 speakers with one checkpoint spanning offline to real-time streaming, including a recommended 0.32 s buffer latency. Compared with its prior 4-speaker Streaming Sortformer, the diarization capacity doubles and benchmarks report a 14.72% DER (and about a 41.0% mean relative DER reduction at 1.04 s) along with higher throughput.
Gemini Audio introduced two new text-to-speech models, Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, for creating more expressive, customizable voice outputs. Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS scored 71.4 on Hume AI’s Voice Design Benchmark. The rollout starts today in Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, expanding line-by-line dialogue control, faster high-volume use, and voice customization options across Gemini products and partners.
YouTube is adding AI-powered features to YouTube Music to help listeners discover music, explore artists, and find podcasts. The updates include “Ask Music,” which can respond across YouTube Music’s catalog of more than 300 million songs. Your Podcast Lineup and Ask Music will appear inside the YouTube Music app for YouTube Music and YouTube Premium subscribers worldwide as they roll out soon.
YouTube introduced custom feeds that let users describe in a prompt the kinds of videos it should recommend, creating a personalized feed pinned on the home page. The feature uses Google’s Gemini AI model and will roll out across web and mobile starting next month. Users will still keep the main recommendations feed, but can switch to their own custom feed tabs for faster browsing.
YouTube released new creator tools in YouTube Studio, adding AI-powered analysis and drafting features alongside thumbnail and title generation. One change expands Ask Studio to iOS and Android. As a result, creators can get draft feedback on pacing and storytelling, generate multiple thumbnail/title options in their style, run up to three video-cut tests, and receive more explanatory analytics.
Spotify began rolling out its “Taste Profile” feature to U.S. Premium subscribers so they can view and edit how it understands their audio taste and adjust Home feed recommendations. The rollout starts for listeners ages 18 and up. After users send natural-language requests, Spotify updates recommendations on their Home page within a few hours, and the feature remains in beta without a wider-release date.
Fearn launched an AI-native patent firm and began offering fixed-fee patent filings built around its FearnOS system and in-house former Big Law reviewers. It charges $2,500 for a provisional application and $9,000 for a non-provisional, with a refund if no claims are allowed. This shifts patent work from selling drafting software to operating a full prosecution team that aims to cut turnaround time while moving efficiency gains and fee risk onto Fearn.
Logitech G launched the Blue Yeti 2 as a successor to its Blue Yeti USB microphone for creators. The Blue Yeti 2 starts at $159.99 and adds an interactive LED display plus AI de-noising and a proximity-based voice sensor. Those updates aim to fix a design flaw from the original while improving how the mic captures speech as you move.
invideo says it will use GPT‑6 Astra to plan edits with more precision. It claims a 3x improvement in color correction and grading. It also says it can generate 50 custom effects in one day, changing its workflow and output capacity.
GPT-6 Astra helps Harvey generate more structured, context-aware legal documents from legal context. The system uses GPT-6. As a result, lawyers spend less time on drafting and more time on strategy.
YouTube announced updates at its Made on YouTube event to AI-powered creator tools that guide and automate parts of the content workflow. The update expands the 2025 creator-tools suite that initially included thumbnail A/B testing and a chatbot for performance questions. This adds AI help for more complex tasks beyond testing and querying results, changing how creators plan and refine videos.
Meta’s Muse reached 500K users and 250K daily active users in its first week, according to The Information. The single most concrete detail is 500K users in that first week. This suggests rapid early adoption and drives more attention to Muse’s rollout and usage.
OpenMuse, a self-hosted personal agent application, can run its own server, task workers, and a persistent Chromium browser to show email and web results inline and let the user take over an active browser session. The iPhone demo completes its web browsing and summarization flow in 38 seconds, while the desktop demo takes 42 seconds. As a result, users can deploy an inspectable MIT-licensed agent that keeps drafts, tracks delegated tasks and goals, and routes model-based “rich threads” through a required CopilotKit Intelligence server key.
Ethan Mollick’s “Orbital Declaration” is a hard-science fiction space combat browser game built with agent help. It’s set in the year 2211. As a result, players get Newtonian motion, the rocket equation, and heat mechanics with no stealth elements baked into the gameplay.
OpenAI hired Sam Yam and two former Patreon executives to lead its creator product strategy. Sam Yam joined to lead Creator Product after co-founding Patreon 13 years ago. OpenAI says it will build with creators and provide early access to new creator tools as a result.
ChatGPT Ads expanded to Southeast Asia and Taiwan for eligible businesses. The rollout covers more than 60 countries. Businesses in those regions can now use ChatGPT Ads to reach people there.
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