DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Sept 16

GOOGLE 🔥: • Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are out. 97-language auto-detect, near real-time vision, background tool calling. • Live is in Search Live plus Gemini API public preview. Extended Thinking is in Gemini Live, with Pro/Ultra getting it in Docs, Gmail, and Keep. • Gemini Notebook Voice Mode hits Ultra this week, Pro soon. Mobile voice recorder starts next week for all users, English first. • Interactive Reports for Gemini Notebook roll out to everyone in the coming weeks, plus new quiz formats and 60-second video overviews.

OPENAI 🔥: • Sam declared a big ship week, then a much larger wave for DevDay. GPT-6 Sol and Luna are the expected drops. • GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT, Work, and Codex on Oct 14. Switch to GPT-5.6 Sol or GPT-6 Astra; the API keeps 5.5.

XAI 🔥: • Grok Imagine can now edit text on any image in beta — color, size, font, alignment. • Grok Build 1.0.33: structured MCP JSON, in-UI memory deletes, and long-session checkpoints that survive cleanup.

ANTHROPIC 🔥: • Salesforce in Claude is in beta. 37 pre-built sales skills for pipeline, forecasts, and call prep.

ALSO TRENDING 🔥: • TypeSafe AI — Jev is out: a non-LLM decision model at ~150ms, $42 per billion input tokens, output free. • Salesforce — Koa is its first CRM reasoning model for Agentforce, built on NVIDIA Nemotron.

• Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing.