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Gemini 3.8 Live tops voice benchmarks while calling tools mid-chat

Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and an Extended Thinking variant that ranks first on speech-to-speech and voice-agent benchmarks, and it can now call tools without breaking the conversation.

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  OpenAI sets October 14 cutoff for GPT-5.5 in ChatGPT, Codex

  GPT-5.5 leaves ChatGPT and default Codex on October 14, but stays available through the API Platform and in Codex sessions authenticated with an API key.

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  Pentest agent found admin GitHub access at Baseten in 25 minutes

  Strix's autonomous pentesting agent chained a public container registry to a live GitHub admin token on Baseten's production repos, unattended, in under half an hour.

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  Cloudflare adds toggle to block AI training, keep search indexing

  A new "Disallow AI Training" toggle lets sites opt out of training use without losing search visibility, alongside an "Accountable" crawler standard shared with Apple, Google, and Microsoft.

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  SemiAnalysis disputes claim datacenter moratoriums slow US buildout

  SemiAnalysis argues local moratoriums are too small relative to planned and under-construction capacity to explain any real slowdown in the US AI datacenter buildout.

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  Tencent benchmark drops frontier model accuracy to 11% on stale facts

  EvolveScaler tests whether models can track event logs where records get retracted and corrected, and frontier models' accuracy collapses to 11.3 percent on its hardest tier.

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  Claude adds Salesforce integration with 37 prebuilt sales skills

  Anthropic's new beta integration pulls Salesforce accounts, opportunities, and pipeline data into Claude for call prep, deal review, and forecasting.

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