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ExplainersGemini Omni 1.2 Flash: edit a clip by talking to it
NewsGemini Omni 1.2 Flash ships 15-second clips at $0.07 a second
ExplainersGemini TTS voice remixing rewrites a voice from a prompt
openai
OpenAI is betting Hollywood friendships will sell ChatGPT
The New York Magazine profile of Charles Porch describes dinners and personal relationships, months after OpenAI shut down Sora and Google invested in A24.
StreamVibe
StreamVibe tests when a video agent should respond
Google researchers and 15 co-authors posted the StreamVibe benchmark, a streaming model and a memory harness for agents that act on user intent mid-task.
google
AI video's preview trap keeps retiring models mid-project
The deprecation table names gemini-omni-1.1-flash as the replacement, and the same date retires Gemini Omni Flash's own preview build.
deepfakes
Nudify apps stayed open to a 13-year-old, report finds
The Tech Transparency Project says test accounts downloaded 135 apps that strip clothes or generate explicit video, parental controls or not.
Veo 3.1
Google to shut down Veo 3.1 preview models on October 22
The deprecations page points developers to gemini-omni-1.1-flash, Google's August 27 successor, and warns the October 22 date is the earliest possible.
Google
EmbeddingGemma 2 puts video search on a phone at 740M parameters
Google's open model unifies text, images, audio and video in one vector space, so a voice memo can find the matching shot without leaving the phone.
Google
Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to cyber defenders only
Google's new frontier model ships first to a vetted security programme, with a 1 million token output limit and a video decoder that got 2.7x faster.
Google
Google makes Live Avatar generally available in Gemini Enterprise
The feature layers generated video, lip-sync and facial expressions onto Gemini 3.8 Live's speech model, and it supports 97 languages, Google said in a Cloud blog post.
Google
Google's co-director wants to end character drift in AI video
A research framework stacks planning agents over Gemini and Veo to keep a character looking like the same person across minutes of footage, and it is not a product you can use yet.
Gemini 3.8 Live
Gemini 3.8 Live adds real-time avatars in 97 languages
The avatars are generally available in Gemini Enterprise through US and EU endpoints, and every stream carries Google's SynthID watermark.