Daily brief

Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Curated by humans who've been burned by demos before. 1 to act on · 4 to monitor · 1 to skip.

Act

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Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, new speech-to-speech AI models for immediate use. source

Monitor

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Salesforce launched Koa, their first CRM reasoning model, built on NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, signaling deeper integration of NVIDIA's AI into enterprise CRMs. source
Good Start Labs demonstrated an AI trained on a railroad simulation game improving performance in financial research tasks through specific training methods. source
JONI, an AI platform, provides persistent runtimes, multi-model routing, and advanced execution capabilities to address AI agent orchestration challenges. source
Enterprise demand for affordable, unregulated open-source AI models from China is rising amid calls for a general AI development slowdown. source

Ignore

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Reports highlight public opposition to AI and data center construction, but this is a recurring sentiment without direct technical impact on current building decisions. source