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The Verge 3 weeks ago 43 ● 2 sources
Google is launching an early experiment on Pixel 11 that lets Gemini place local business phone calls on a user’s behalf. The feature is positioned as an early experiment on Pixel 11. Users can approve and monitor a live transcript while Gemini handles dialing, automated menus, holding, and the conversation to complete tasks like reservations or rescheduling.
The Verge 3 weeks ago 13
Apple announced that its new Apple Watches can continuously listen for spoken words and generate summaries of surrounding activity, sparking privacy and legal concerns. The backlash followed the coverage period that included a Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2026 event context, with experts warning about eavesdropping laws in places requiring both-party consent. Apple responded by publishing a detailed technical explanation page aimed at reassuring users it is not spying.
Google 3 weeks ago 26 ● 9 sources
Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS, adding more expressive text-to-speech models to the Gemini Audio lineup.
Latent Space 3 weeks ago 31 ● 33 sources
Meta presented Muse as a personal-agent platform tied to new glasses and agent capabilities at Connect, including voice/video, email and computer-use integrations, and a realtime avatar research release. Meta’s VR Glasses were priced at $1,299. Muse gains broader real-world control through connectors and hardware distribution, while a frontier model remains teased and not released.
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20 October 2026
AI infrastructure is getting a very practical second act today: making agents faster to start, cheaper to run, and easier to govern once they’re running. Daytona, which sells an “agentic cloud” built around VMs for agent “computers,” raised $60 million in a Series B and landed at a $1 billion valuation, targeting 60-millisecond sandbox provisioning—an attempt to knock down the latency tax that makes agents feel sluggish between steps. IBM, Red Hat, and others also pushed llm-d framework 1.0, adding operational controls for in-house distributed inference, including multi-tenant QoS, zero-downtime upgrades, and router behavior measured on an agentic coding test that reportedly captured 97% cache reuse.
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