Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise, enabling near-real-time video personas that lip-sync and adapt expressions in 97 languages while handling visual and audio input and running background tool calls during conversations.
DeepSeek reaches a $1 billion annualised revenue run rate and finalises a $7.5 billion funding round valuing it at about $74 billion, despite raising API fees by 2.3 to 4.5 times.
Inferact open-sources TPU v7 megakernels and claims its Kimi K3 implementation surpasses 700 tokens per second with speculative decoding on 16 TPU v7 chips, using one Pallas kernel to fuse all 92 MoE layers.
New Relic’s 2026 Observability Forecast finds that AI-generated code speeds development but coincides with more incidents for 78% of surveyed teams, while one in four runs AI agents without monitoring them.
Taste-Bench launches a 502-question benchmark for long-horizon AI-agent decisions, with GPT-5.6 Sol leading at 59.7% under a paired-order test that requires correct choices in both option orders.
Meta unveils its first audio-only AI glasses, the $349 Ray-Ban Meta Audio, shipping October 13 with 12-hour battery life, alongside $449 Gen 3 camera glasses with 3K video and a customizable Meta AI button.
Meta unveils the Charm AI pendant and expands its Muse assistant with voice, interactive avatars, Mac control, email and AI-glasses access, while Mark Zuckerberg says the 2-inch-display wearable packs 5G, dual cameras and a fingerprint sensor.
OpenAI unveils MentalHealthBench, an open safety benchmark for AI mental-health conversations that tests context gathering, user agency and actionable guidance across synthetic emotional, high-acuity and emergency scenarios reviewed by 80 professionals from 22 countries.
Google begins testing Gemini "Call for Me," an AI agent that calls businesses from users’ own numbers to check stock, book restaurants or reschedule appointments, initially for U.S. Pixel 11 owners with a Gemini subscription and the beta Google Phone app.
Anthropic commits $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai cloud services for growing CPU workloads, with an option to expand the deal by $9 billion as Akamai plans $5.5 billion in related capital spending.