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AI & Jobs Google shipped Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking on September 15, with Extended Thinking taking first place on Artificial Analysis' speech-to-speech index at 82.6. At the published per-minute rates, an hour of two-way audio runs about $1.38.
AI & Jobs On April 24, Sundar Pichai told Cloud Next 2026 that 75% of new code at Google is now AI-generated and engineer-approved — up from 50% last fall. Three hours later, Bloomberg's editorial board ran a piece arguing the AI job apocalypse is being delayed. Both can be true. Only one ships to production.
AI & Jobs A holding company quietly dissolved its junior copywriting bench this week. The termination letters, by some accounts, were drafted by the exact same tool that replaced them. Poetic, in a cold sort of way.