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Gemini 3.5 Transcribe Aims to Produce Finished Text From Speech
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Remember shouting over background noise, backspacing every misspelled word, and deleting every "um" by hand? Google's betting those days are done.
— Futurepedia – Learn to Leverage AI (@futurepedia_io) 28 août 2026
Gemini 3.5 Transcribe just launched, and it's less speech-to-text, more speech-to-finished-text. According to Google, it:
🔹… pic.twitter.com/UVLvoUpkDuRemember shouting over background noise, backspacing every misspelled word, and deleting every "um" by hand? Google's betting those days are done. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe just launched, and it's less speech-to-text, more speech-to-finished-text. According to Google, it:
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Nvidia Earnings Leave Questions About Its Financial Influence on AI
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Nothing on Nvidia’s call Wednesday addressed the persistent concerns about how it is using its financial power to shape the AI industry. As long as results are phenomenal, which they are, it’s easy to kick that can down the road… Nvidia’s stunning forecast Nvidia’s report
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Jensen Huang Calls Open AI Models Essential Infrastructure
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4/7 On open-source AI, @JensenHuang drew a sharp line: "Closed models is a business model choice. Open models are essential for human infrastructure."
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Gemini Notebooks Can Include Selected Google Play Books
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GOOGLE 🔥: Users now can add select ebooks from Google Play Books to their Gemini Notebooks.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 27 août 2026
> Third-party subscriptions, textbooks, and broader surface availability like AI Mode in Search and the Gemini App are coming soon. https://t.co/jzSJLBvQCR pic.twitter.com/JeGQAH7vmWGOOGLE : Users now can add select ebooks from Google Play Books to their Gemini Notebooks. > Third-party subscriptions, textbooks, and broader surface availability like AI Mode in Search and the Gemini App are coming soon.
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OpenAI Joins Major Labs in Calling for Global Cyber Defense Effort
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We have a limited window to strengthen cyber defenses, and together with organizations including @AnthropicAI
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, we're calling for a global effort to give defenders the tools, resources, and support to protect the infrastructure we all -
EnvHarness Changes How Static Environments Respond to Agent Interactions
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What if the environment, not just the agent, could have a harness? Google presents EnvHarness. Just as agent harnesses add memory and skills around a frozen LLM, EnvHarness wraps a static environment and reshapes how it responds to agent interactions — without touching the
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Reported Codex Persistent Mode Creates and Continues Follow-Up Tasks
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OpenAI is testing a "Persistent mode" for Codex that would keep the agent working until you put it to sleep. Code reviewed by WIRED shows an agent that could create its own follow-up tasks, continue them across sessions, use past interactions and “knowledge of the user” to
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Gemini Omni Flash Adds Reference Controls and Ten-Second Video Extensions
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Excited to bring Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 to the world, this is an update to our anything in, anything out world model. It now supports: – 360p drafts, 4K up samplers
– up to 10 seconds of video context when extending
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Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash Brings New Video Controls to Gemini APIs
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GOOGLE 🔥: Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash has been officially announced and now available on Gemini APIs and Google AI Studio.
— 🚨 AI News | TestingCatalog (@testingcatalog) 27 août 2026
> “This model brings a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to developers” https://t.co/QwABcfniQf pic.twitter.com/lMqo2EGiEnGOOGLE : Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash has been officially announced and now available on Gemini APIs and Google AI Studio. > “This model brings a new suite of creative controls and generative video capabilities to developers”