AI News for September 16, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Google launches Gemini 3.8 Live, tops speech-to-speech leaderboard at a fraction of GPT-Live-1's price: Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, voice models that reason, process live video and run tool calls in the background mid-conversation.
[NEWS] Apple's new Siri AI runs on Google's Gemini, and skips the EU and China at launch: The rebuilt "Siri AI" that shipped in beta with iOS 27 runs on Google's Gemini models rather than Apple's own Foundation Models, processing some tasks on-device and others in the cloud.
[NEWS] OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind have been in safety talks for weeks: OpenAI policy chief Chris Lehane confirmed the company has worked with Anthropic and Google DeepMind on AI safety for several weeks.
[NEWS] OpenAI weighs new funding round at over $1.2T valuation ahead of IPO: OpenAI is in early talks with investors about a fresh round that would value it at more than $1.2 trillion, ahead of an eventual IPO.
[NEWS] Zuckerberg rejects an industry slowdown pact, backs independent evaluators instead: Mark Zuckerberg said on X that AI labs don't need an industry-wide agreement to slow down.
[NEWS] Jensen Huang: 'Run as fast as you can', AI needs no new laws: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Salesforce's Dreamforce that "safety is an engineering problem, not a legal one" and that market forces make new AI regulation unnecessary.
[NEWS] Anthropic leases site for $31.9B datacentre in western Queensland: Anthropic has signed a deal for its first Australian datacentre, the Western Downs digital park near Dalby, Queensland, to be built by Singapore-based Zerra DC and connected to the Braemar power station.
[NEWS] Agility unveils Digit 5, a humanoid that works beside people without safety fences: Agility Robotics revealed Digit 5, which detects nearby people and slows, steps aside or squats down and cuts its motors if someone gets too close.
[NEWS] Salesforce and Nvidia release Koa, an open-weight reasoning model for enterprise work: Salesforce unveiled Koa at Dreamforce, its first reasoning model, post-trained with Nvidia on the open-weight Nemotron model for sales, marketing and customer-support tasks.
[RESEARCH] Google Research's Retrieve-for-Train makes AI search query fan-out 12-20x faster: Google Research introduced Retrieve-for-Train, which moves the expensive reasoning in complex AI search offline.

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