#multimodal
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AI News Briefing — Gemini 3.8 Live tops speech-to-speech quality index
Google's Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking takes first on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index at 82.6, and the smaller Live model switches among 97 languages mid-call. Meta shipped an MCP server for WhatsApp Business setup.
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AI News — July 9, 2026
The government-restricted frontier model just went public: OpenAI said on July 8 it will make GPT-5.6 (Sol, Terra, Luna) broadly available starting July 9 after the US Commerce Department cleared a wide launch, ending the ~20-partner, government-vetted preview that had run since June 26 — and paired the news with GPT-Live, a full-duplex voice generation that listens and speaks at once and replaces ChatGPT's Advanced Voice Mode.