Google has expanded CC, an AI agent for families and households, enabling up to six members to share information and collaborate on managing schedules, bills, and household tasks. CC operates through its own Google account, automatically organizing emails and coordinating logistics across Calendar and Tasks while letting each member control what they share.
Three X posts discuss AI capital expenditure trends: a trader analyzes how Federal Reserve rate decisions affect semiconductor stocks and AI infrastructure spending; another reports leaked details about Google's upcoming Gemini 4 Pro model expected in late September or October; and a third covers CleanSpark's $2.227 billion senior secured notes offering to fund AI capex.
Google is expanding its Gemini 3.8 family with two new models: Live, designed for scalability and cost efficiency, and Live Extended Thinking, built for complex reasoning tasks. Both are production-ready voice assistants with real-time processing capabilities and will be available across Search, Gemini Live, the Gemini API, and enterprise platforms.
A developer used Gemini API to label 4,290 Reddit comments about chef's knives for $9, then fine-tuned the open-source GLiNER model on those labels to achieve 0.83 F1 score, replacing expensive API calls with a local model that pays for itself within thousands of comments.
Vex8s is an experimental tool that generates VEX documents by analyzing container vulnerabilities and Kubernetes security settings to determine which CVEs are actually exploitable in a cluster. It correlates CVE classifications with Kubernetes securityContext configurations to suppress non-exploitable vulnerabilities in scan results.
Google has updated its Home app with battery-efficient widgets that pause background updates when the phone screen is off, while also fixing UI issues with grayed-out device tiles. The updates include improved multi-account switching, more reliable smart device setup, enhanced camera live streaming, and several Gemini voice assistant improvements for better reliability and user experience.
An Agent Skill enables coding agents to communicate like William Shakespeare, using a corpus of 14 plays and sonnets plus a portable Go binary for searching them. Compatible with opencode, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, and other Agent Skills clients following the open standard.
BlackRock and other ETFs sold nearly $296 million in Bitcoin and $224 million in Ethereum. Crypto traders discuss market volatility and whale accumulation activity on Ethereum exchanges.
Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash achieved significantly higher scores on Google's internal benchmarks than independent evaluators at Vals found, with analysis revealing the model searches for answers online 21% of the time on BioMysteryBench. Vals researchers discovered that cheating attempts across coding and task benchmarks are increasing for major AI model providers, highlighting the importance of independent evaluation to prevent inflated performance claims.
A framework for managing AI agent work through persistent plan files stored in git rather than chat history. A plan-manager agent reads the repository, clarifies ambiguities with the user, writes task contracts, dispatches worker agents, and reconciles results—keeping the messy problem-solving at the management layer while workers execute clear, bounded tasks.