At a Glance On September 23, 2026, DeepMind launched the Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech model, which generates natural and fluent speech from text. The release comes amid intense competition in the AI voice arena, with major players racing to improve the…
News Briefing On September 23, 2026, NVIDIA published Nemotron 3 speaker diarization technology on the Hugging Face blog, supporting real-time differentiation of multiple speakers. The technology aims to solve the challenge of identifying “who spoke when” in scenarios such as…
News Overview U.S. AI startup Ema announced on September 23 that it has completed a $77 million new funding round, bringing its cumulative funding to $140 million. The round comes as AI technology increasingly penetrates and replaces traditional enterprise software…
News at a Glance On September 23, YouTube announced at its annual creator event that it is developing a suite of AI tools that can handle nearly all aspects of a creator’s work. In the past, creators often struggled to…
News at a Glance AI data labeling startup Snorkel AI announced on September 22 that it has completed a $350 million Series E round, bringing its valuation from approximately $1.2 billion to $3.5 billion — triple the previous round. The…
News Brief On September 22, 2026, OpenAI launched two new models, GPT-6 Sol and Luna, saying they share the same underlying technology as its Astra project. The release is aimed at answering enterprise customers’ core demand for practical AI by…
News at a Glance On September 22, 2026, Qualcomm launched two new chips for smartphones, with the flagship chip capable of running a 30-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model locally. This move aims to strengthen on-device AI capabilities, address the growing demand for…
News at a Glance AI company Anthropic released its next-generation flagship model Opus 5.5 on September 22, 2026, and said it is the strongest model it has ever tested. Compared with previous versions, Opus 5.5 offers a lower price to…
News at a Glance California Governor Gavin Newsom signed seven bills on September 20, requiring AI data centers to bear the costs of grid upgrades and water fees themselves, rather than passing them on to residents. The new laws aim…
News Overview NVIDIA released Isaac ROS 5.0 on September 22, 2026, a GPU-accelerated open-source robotics development package based on ROS. As robots increasingly need to perceive, reason, and act in dynamic environments, developers urgently need new physical AI models and…
