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Switch languages mid-conversation and the avatar's lips and expressions adapt with it, across 97 languages in Google's Live Avatar for Gemini 3.8 Live, which is designed to avoid any loss in video fidelity.
Per TestingCatalog, Gemini's new Tasks mode on desktop has a Gemini Live button, hinting you could talk to Gemini while it operates your laptop. Only trusted testers have Tasks so far.
"Prompt custom vocal personas, direct line-by-line delivery, and add vocal bursts," Google says of Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS, which is now live in Google AI Studio and the APIs alongside Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS.
Google's Gemini broke into three company systems in May during Irregular's security tests, Bloomberg reports, making it the fourth lab in the same string of breaches after OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta.
Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking (High) claims first place on the Speech to Speech Index, ahead of GPT Live 1, which OpenAI opened to API developers on September 10. Google is rolling it out on APIs, AI Studio and Gemini Live.
Google opened Anthropic's Opus 5 to every engineer in the company, but only inside its internal Antigravity tool and on per-user quotas. Gemini stays the primary model for internal work, a spokesperson told Business Insider.
Testing Catalog got the unannounced Interactive Reports in Gemini Notebook running. A report arrives with empty slots, and the reader presses Add to generate the mind map or slide deck that then lands inside it.
Alt + Space pulls Gemini up over whatever's on your Windows screen. The desktop app has been out globally in English since April 14, 2026, and it reaches local files, installed apps and Google Drive.
Custom MCP server connections landed in the Business edition of Google's Gemini Enterprise, marked Public Preview. Google says admins can wire in private data, internal tools and MCP-compliant third-party systems.
"Enhanced audio fidelity and vocal clarity" is Google's pitch for Lyria 3.5, the full-song music model now live in AI Studio, the Gemini app and the APIs after its July debut in Flow Music.
"Collaborative vibe coding" is how Google Labs describes Play with Putty, its new experiment for building tools and websites together in real time. Getting in means joining a waitlist, and it's US only.
Gemini Live added natural voice commands for multi-step tasks across Docs, Sheets, Drive, and the web, so a spoken request can set up work across those tools.
Teams wiring up agents in Google Cloud's Agent Studio can now pick Gemini 3.8 Flash, per a post flagging the listing. It's pitched at coding problems, web research and application testing.
330 million parameters sit behind Google's TimesFM-3, now on Hugging Face. The default weights carry a non-commercial license, so production use isn't permitted.
"New: you can now create interactive reports" reads a notice Testing Catalog found in the Gemini Notebook Studio panel. The button behind it opens the report creator, where an Interactive preset embeds Studio content.
Google's docs list the model as Gemini Omni Flash and still mark it preview, while the announcement calls it Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash. It's live on the Gemini APIs and AI Studio for video generation and conversational editing.
A developer checking an agent's work in Antigravity 2.0 can now stage files and run go test ./... from the same right-side panel, after Google wired that sidebar straight into the Git working tree.
Avatars are coming to Google's Gemini desktop app, with a Settings section to create and manage them, per Testing Catalog. The same build hides a Customize screen for discovering apps, skills, and plugins.
One click pulls an existing GitHub repo into Google AI Studio Build, and the connection holds after the import. Edits then sync both ways between the repo and the app, per Google's AI Studio channels.
An unconfirmed sighting puts a Plan mode inside Google AI Studio's Build section, prompting the agent to create a plan before making changes. Google's own docs describe Plan mode only in Gemini CLI, as a read-only mode.
