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AIGoogle's weekly recap covers Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, described as its most advanced live dialogue audio models yet. It also notes Dreambeans, a GoogleLabs experiment curating daily personalized stories, is now generally available, and that CC has expanded into a shared agent for household coordination. Google Pics, a Workspace tool for generating and co-creating images, is now GA, alongside AlphaGenome Atlas, DeepMind's interactive genomics discovery platform.

AIGoogle has released Android Bench 2.0, an updated benchmark that evaluates AI models on long-horizon tasks such as building apps from scratch, migrating cross-platform codebases to Android, and making complex architectural transitions. The benchmark uses continuous completion scoring to show which tasks each model performs well on.

AIGoogle's AI & Economy Research Program has added Nobel laureate Philippe Aghion as an Academic Advisor and Ajay Agrawal as a Visiting Fellow, with Anu Madgavkar and Daniel Rock named Directors. The program covers the future of work, productivity and growth, global technology diffusion, and AI's impact on scientific discovery, and builds on the recently launched AI & Economy ATLAS v1.0.

AIGoogle's Envisioning Studio, with Google Labs, co-developed custom Google Flow tools with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson ahead of New York Fashion Week. Wade's Styling Suite let her style runway looks on digital models before producing physical samples, while Hudson's Runway Visualization helped him stage his show within a tight budget. The source says the tools are built with natural language and no coding experience.

AIGoogle is restricting access to its Gemini 2.5 models to users who have actively used them in the past, to keep performance reliable. The models are not deprecated and remain available through the API until further notice. For new projects, Google recommends its latest models, 3.5 Flash-Lite or 3.8 Flash.

AIGoogle Research is sharing an experiment that lets educators generate custom, guided STEM simulations tailored to their curriculum using generative UI. It is releasing a sample library of over 30 English interactives for physics, chemistry, biology, and math, all AI-generated and reviewed by teachers. Schools using Google Workspace for Education can sign up through the Google for Education Pilot Program to give feedback.

AIThe United Nations system launched UN System Data Commons, an open-source platform built on Data Commons by Google that integrates siloed global statistics into one AI-ready knowledge graph. Users can query it in natural language, browse by location or theme, and use MCP-enabled AI agents to fetch verified figures and draft charts or reports. The UN plans to add more datasets, aiming to include 80% of UN system statistical datasets by 2027.

AIGoogle teamed up with Speakeasy to ship new Google GenAI SDKs for its Interactions, Agents, and Webhooks APIs. Speakeasy has also open-sourced its OpenAPI generator suite used to generate the SDKs.

AIGoogle Labs has announced CC, an AI agent built for families that can be connected to up to 5 members. It syncs schedules and to-dos through shared Google Calendar and Tasks, sends a shared "Your Day Ahead" brief each morning, and handles tasks such as meal plans, shopping lists, and paperwork under user direction. It is available by waitlist or upgrade in the US for users 18 and older.

AIGoogle AI Studio announced that Speakeasy is open sourcing its OpenAPI client generation suite under AGPLv3, following a May 2026 vendor shutdown that disrupted Google's SDK pipeline. The suite covers SDK generation for 7 languages, an agent-native CLI generator, and a documentation MCP server generator. Google says its pipeline now serves six targets with roughly one engineer maintaining it.

AIGoogle Labs has turned its experimental CC agent into a family and household assistant that supports up to six members, each with a shared view of the day ahead. CC has its own Google account, sees only what members choose to share, and connects to Calendar and Tasks. It is available as an early experiment on web and mobile for U.S. users 18 and older with a personal Google account.

AIGoogle AI Studio released antigravity-preview-09-2026, an updated harness for Gemini managed agents, now live in the Interactions API and AI Studio and running on Gemini 3.8 Flash. The release adds a Files API for moving data into and out of the agent's sandbox and a Credentials API that stores secrets encrypted so the model never sees them.

Why it matters: The post shows what changed in the agent harness and how the new Files and Credentials APIs keep secrets out of the model's context, useful for developers building agents.

AIA Mariposa Museum exhibit photographed by writer Steven Johnson, shared by Gemini Notebook, documents the Sierra Nevada town in 1859, ten years after the Gold Rush began. Johnson says he used the Gemini Notebook mobile app's camera feature to generate a detailed report from photos of the display, which he says was 99% accurate on fact-checking.

AISteven B. Johnson describes how the camera feature in the Gemini Notebook mobile app let him photograph a Mariposa Museum exhibit and get a detailed text report of its contents. He says the transcription was about 99% accurate on his fact-check, though some blurry text was hard to read, and he plans to use Notebook to compare the new material against his existing sources.

AIYi Tay congratulated Vinh Q. Tran (@vqctran) on his move from Google DeepMind and recalled years of co-inventing work together. The post praised Tran's pursuit of his biology passion, which the quoted post describes as building Polyphron to grow human tissue with frontier models and reinforcement learning.

AIGoogle DeepMind has made its AlphaGenome Atlas freely accessible to researchers worldwide. The database is intended to help them decode the genetic causes of disease.

AIGoogle released the antigravity-preview-09-2026 agent, which replaces and deprecates antigravity-preview-05-2026. Remote sandbox users reading only output_text or model_output steps need only update the agent string, while local-environment users or those parsing function_call steps must adapt to renamed tools, PascalCase parameters, and line-range file edits. The 05-2026 preview shuts down on October 5, 2026.

AISpeakeasy is open-sourcing its full OpenAPI client suite under the AGPLv3 license, including generators for seven languages (Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby), an agent-native CLI generator, and a documentation MCP server generator. Google said the move followed the May 2026 shutdown of the SDK generation provider it had been using, which it cited as evidence that closed-source generators pose platform risk. Google's new Google GenAI SDKs for the Interactions, Agents, and Webhooks APIs were built with this pipeline across six targets.

AIMosaic, Ponder Studio, and Revyl used early access to Google's Gemini Flash models to test agentic video understanding on long footage. Mosaic reports a 97% cut in median token usage and nearly double the ability to handle complex edits, while Ponder Studio reports a 0.967 F1 score and about 72% lower token costs for B-roll selection. Revyl says the approach improved mobile UI bug-catching accuracy by 65%. The capability is available now for video uploads and YouTube videos via the Gemini API.

AIDemis Hassabis says he and Shane Legg have long discussed AGI's potential impact on the economy, science, and society. Google DeepMind is now expanding interdisciplinary research on key questions for the AI era through the DeepMind Institute.

AIGoogle has put Agent Anomaly Detection into Private Preview on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, a reasoning-based audit layer that reviews agent reasoning traces, tool calls, and execution flow to flag behavioral anomalies and policy violations. It runs asynchronously without adding runtime latency and publishes findings to Security Command Center. The preview requires ADK 1.2 or later.

AIJeff Dean congratulated Periodic Labs on results from its materials-science AI work. The post itself provides no specific figures, so the announcement is limited to the congratulations.

AIGoogle AI Studio released Gemini 3.8 Live, a native speech-to-speech model with an Extended Thinking variant, and made it available through the Live API. Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, released last month, supports 85+ languages with a reported 4.0% streaming and 2.6% non-streaming Word Error Rate, and accepts a custom vocabulary of up to 1,000 terms. Live API audio pricing is listed at $0.005/min for input and $0.018/min for output.

Why it matters: The post lists concrete Live API capabilities, per-minute audio pricing, and transcription accuracy figures, helping developers weigh voice agent options against their own cascaded pipelines.

AIGoogle's Gemini Notebook now offers live spoken Q&A over class materials in about 100 languages, and lets students record lectures on the go with audio notes saved automatically to a chosen notebook. University students in 140+ countries can also still get a free Google AI Plan for higher limits and access to more Google products.