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Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Every story published that day — lead first, then grouped by section.

News

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Models & Research

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Illustration for: Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customer
Models & Research

Google Beam expands with new regions, partners, and customers We’re expanding Google Beam to five new countries, partnering with Industrious for an extended network, and proving our impact at Google and beyond. Director, Business Development, Google Beam Your browser does not support the audio element.

Google AI Blog4 min
Illustration for: Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello
Models & Research

Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS are our most expressive audio generation models yet. Generate custom character voices and direct scene dialogue across Google AI Studio, Gemini API, Gemini Enterprise, Gemini Notebook, and Google Vids.

Google DeepMind6 min

Products & Tools

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Illustration for: Humanity's Last Exam (Diamond) - Scale AI
Products & Tools

Challenging LLMs at the frontier of human knowledge HLE-Diamond, built with the Center for AI Safety (CAIS) , is a refined subset of Humanity’s Last Exam (HLE) resulting from a year-long process of cleaning and refinement with input from research communities.

Scale AI3 min
Illustration for: The pacing era's first launch day
Products & Tools

PLUS: Build, test, and publish an app without leaving Codex Good morning, AI enthusiasts, and welcome to the 20,221 new readers who joined us yesterday. Barely two weeks into the AI industry’s new “pacing” era, the frontier’s two biggest rivals are still launching on each other’s heels.

The Rundown AI7 min
Illustration for: Pinecone BYOC: Trusted AI Knowledge in the Customer Cloud -
Products & Tools

Pinecone BYOC: Trusted AI Knowledge in the Customer Cloud Today, we are announcing the general availability of Pinecone Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure, bringing Pinecone’s trusted AI knowledge platform to where enterprise data needs to live. AI becomes transformative when it works with a company’s proprietary knowledge.

Pinecone4 min

Guides

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Illustration for: How to train your own Jev for $17
Guides

We just launched our own Jev-like classifier, together/Tev1-4B-experimental , on top of Qwen3.5 4B on Together’s serverless platform. In this blog post we’ll show you how to fine-tune your own version!

Together AI Blog6 min

Open Source

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Policy & Ethics

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