Google DeepMind added a “Live Avatar” feature to Gemini 3.8 Live that can generate animated cartoon or realistic human-like faces that lip-sync Gemini’s spoken, machine-generated dialogue for enterprise agents.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Register
ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can be customized via each app’s settings to control response tone (including emoji and “warmth/enthusiasm”), with the article finding ChatGPT was the most “coachable” and most closely followed user instructions overall—while Gemini most consistently cited sources on the first try but later stopped citing without prompting.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
CNET
Google will launch a test satellite carrying lightly modified TPU/Trillium compute from its Project Suncatcher on October 1 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 to evaluate whether its homegrown AI hardware can survive launch, space radiation, and cooling in orbit.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Google’s Gemini 3.8 Live now supports “Live Avatar,” letting Gemini Enterprise customers talk to the model while an animated persona lip-syncs and changes facial expressions in real time.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Verge
Docker Cloud Sandboxes use full micro VMs to prevent AI agents running in containers from accessing mounted host secrets, as shown when Claude could probe for a locally stored secret and Docker socket inside a regular container but failed inside a sandbox (“The isolation holds”).
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Meta’s Ray-Ban Display glasses and other Meta AI non-display smart glasses will get New York Times Cooking integration with a “hands-free mode” that provides audio cues for recipe steps, with steps restructured into brief instructions and ingredients/measurements aligned to the dish.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
Engadget
Three Salesforce Agentforce flaws (“SalesBleed”) let attackers hijack Agentforce agents to trigger 0-click CRM data theft via poisoned Web-to-Lead entries and to send phishing messages under the agent’s own identity, including through Slack preview/unfurling and a Slack “Reply to a Slack Thread” action that lacked user confirmation and attribution.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
PrismML showcased its 1-bit Bonsai LLM running locally on Qualcomm Snapdragon AR1 Gen 1–powered smart glasses, including a 2-billion-parameter vision-and-language model for real-time questions about what wearers are seeing.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Feather Robotics has sold modular humanoid robots generating over $1 million in revenue and targets a big product launch after resolving most field-testing issues, with robots priced at $30,000.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Oracle sent a force majeure notice for Project Jupiter that would allow it to delay payments if the New Mexico Stargate data center misses its 2028 in-service target, though Oracle says it expects no delay.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Jensen Huang said AI can help fight climate change only after it inflicts “an enormous amount of pain and suffering” and that “over the next several years” the world will need to use fossil fuels until there isn’t enough sustainable energy to transition sooner.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Meta will let people create 2D and 3D mobile games in Horizon Create (mobile app) and Horizon Studio (browser app) using AI prompts, then have published games recommended on Facebook and Instagram for in-feed, instant multiplayer play.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Meta unveiled Muse Charm, a Tamagotchi-sized handheld AI companion with a teddy-bear avatar that communicates via voice interactions with users.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Meta’s consumer AI agent Muse drew allegations that it’s built on OpenClaw, but Meta says it built Muse “from scratch” while acknowledging it was “heavily inspired” by OpenClaw’s product design.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Databricks acquired early-stage cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero, integrating it with its Genie AI agent so users can query Databricks-stored data via natural-language prompts in a familiar spreadsheet interface.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Meta is rolling its Muse AI agent mascot (named “Jolly”) into its smart glasses and also into a new standalone AI wearable called “Charm,” with the story portraying the interface as designed to be “extremely cute.”
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Google Photos is adding an AI-powered “Redact” tool that pixelates blurred areas in images via the app’s upgraded Markup feature, including options like blurring license plates.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Engadget
Chrome’s cross-device tab switching will now remember exactly where you’d scrolled on a shared tab and preserve half-filled forms when moving between mobile and desktop.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Google Photos’ AI virtual closet feature is now available to everyone in the U.S., Brazil, and India on both Android and iOS, letting users turn outfit photos into a searchable, filterable wardrobe for mixing and matching outfits.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
ElevenLabs, the voice layer behind AI text-to-speech, is reportedly valued at $22 billion despite pacing $600 million in annual recurring revenue and being about four years old.
Sep 24, 2026 ·TechCrunch
