Gemini 3.8 Live ships

The Signal · 2026-09-16

Your assistant can now act while you're still talking. Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and a Live Extended Thinking version: upgraded reasoning, near real-time visual understanding, 97 languages, and background tool calling that runs tasks without interrupting the conversation.

Also today: Nvidia's Jensen Huang says AI is just hardware and software, needs no special regulation, and safety belongs to each product maker.

A New York Times and Siena poll finds AI and data centers deeply unpopular with voters, adding a siting problem to the buildout.

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