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In this episode, we discuss Google's Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, which adds real-time AI video avatars to Gemini Live. The avatars listen, see, and speak across 97 languages while running tools in the background, aimed at customer service agents, training tools, and virtual concierges. We also break down Google's new Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash Lite TTS text-to-speech models, which offer plain-language voice design, line-by-line performance direction, two-speaker dialogue, consent-based voice cloning, and SynthID and C2PA provenance signals. Plus, we cover local sandboxing for coding agents in the GitHub Copilot app with fail-closed protection, and Google's Project Suncatcher, which is sending prototype Trillium TPU AI chips into orbit on a SpaceX Transporter mission to test radiation, launch vibration, and cooling for space-based AI compute.
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