Google releases Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking for developers to build real-time voice agents that execute tasks mid-conversation, adding asynchronous function calling, live visual context and support for more than 97 languages.
AIUC raises a $40 million Series A led by Ribbit Capital to audit and certify AI agents, using its AIUC-1 system to test roughly 5,000 jailbreak, hallucination, and data-leak scenarios for customers including Cursor, Harvey, Lovable, and ElevenLabs.
Developer Suganthan Mohanadasan launches a live x402 paywall that charges AI agents $0.01 per page, while Google confirms a publisher-payment pilot for content that materially contributes to AI Overviews, AI Mode, or Gemini answers.
OpenAI reverses its July 9 ChatGPT “super app” redesign after users find its separate Chat, Codex and Work modes confusing, while it also ends ChatGPT Atlas on August 9 amid Relay’s shutdown and Apple’s $250 million Siri marketing settlement.
Anthropic launches Salesforce in Claude beta, giving sales teams 37 AI skills to research accounts, prepare calls, review pipelines and draft CRM updates while keeping Salesforce as the system of record and requiring seller approval for proposed changes.
Enactic launches OpenArm, a fully open-source 7DOF humanoid arm for physical-AI research, with a $6,500 bimanual system and a standardized OpenArm Cell for reproducible teleoperation, imitation-learning, simulation, and contact-rich real-world experiments.
Elon Musk and Sam Altman back a proposal for leading AI companies, including xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and Chinese rivals, to let competitors safety-test models before public release as warnings intensify about catastrophic AI risks.
Google unveils AI initiatives spanning 300-plus languages, a 9-billion-variant AlphaGenome Atlas and WeatherNext 3, while launching a Planetary Prediction Engine aimed at forecasting disease outbreaks and other global crises.
Google launches AlphaGenome Atlas and WeatherNext 3, opening a map of 9 billion possible genetic variants while deploying a weather model it says makes next-day precipitation forecasts 50% more accurate.
Anthropic, Google and OpenAI are discussing a FINRA-style industry body to test advanced AI before release, while OpenAI backs the bipartisan FRONTIER Act requiring frontier labs to embed outside safety evaluators in development.