Wednesday, 16 September 2026

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DeepL Voice preserves speaker voice across languages

New Voice models keep each speaker recognisable in live multilingual talk, with a desktop app for Zoom, Teams and Meet, and voice-to-voice GA for online meetings.

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FTC Ferguson suspicious of AI antitrust exemption push

FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson said he was deeply suspicious of frontier labs seeking regulation plus an antitrust exemption, calling it moat digging against challengers.

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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live and Live Extended Thinking

Native speech-to-speech live models with mid-conversation switching across 97 languages, live visual grounding and async tool use while speaking, in API, Search, Workspace and the Gemini app.

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Treasury Bessent rejects liability exemptions for AI labs

Bessent told House lawmakers the US should not give frontier labs liability exemptions, arguing creator liability is the best safety guardrail.

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