Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and an Extended Thinking variant that ranks first on speech-to-speech and voice-agent benchmarks, and it can now call tools without breaking the conversation. Read: Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and an Extended Thinking variant that ranks first on speech-to-speech and voice-agent benchmarks, and it can now call tools without breaking the conversation. Read: GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT and default Codex on October 14, but stays available through the API Platform and in Codex sessions authenticated with an API key. Read: Strix's autonomous pentesting agent chained a public container registry to a live GitHub admin token on Baseten's production repos, unattended, in under half an hour. Read: A new "Disallow AI Training" toggle lets sites opt out of training use without losing search visibility, alongside an "Accountable" crawler standard shared with Apple, Google, and Microsoft. Read: SemiAnalysis argues local moratoriums are too small relative to planned and under-construction capacity to explain any real slowdown in the US AI datacenter buildout. Read: EvolveScaler tests whether models can track event logs where records get retracted and corrected, and frontier models' accuracy collapses to 11.3 percent on its hardest tier. Read: Anthropic's new beta integration pulls Salesforce accounts, opportunities, and pipeline data into Claude for call prep, deal review, and forecasting.
Gemini 3.8 Live tops voice benchmarks while calling tools mid-chat
Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and an Extended Thinking variant that rank first on speech-to-speech and voice-agent benchmarks, and the models can now call tools mid-conversation without breaking the dialogue. The release also coincides with GPT-5.5 leaving ChatGPT and default Codex on October 14, though it remains available through the API Platform and in Codex sessions authenticated with an API key. In a separate finding, EvolveScaler reports that frontier models' accuracy collapses to 11.3 percent on its hardest tier when tracking event logs with retracted and corrected records.
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