Google Launches Gemini 3.8 Live Voice Models for Real-Time AI Reasoning

Google DeepMind has launched AlphaGenome Atlas, an AI tool designed to map every possible DNA letter change in the human genome. The platform aims to accelerate biological research and enable development of new disease treatments by providing a predictive map of genetic variations across the roughly three billion letter pairs that make up human DNA.

Google released two variants of Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday, a standard version optimized for agentic tasks and software development, and Flash Cyber designed for vulnerability detection. The standard model outperforms many frontier models on coding benchmarks at lower cost, while Flash Cyber achieved 86.2% on the CyberGym benchmark and a 70% success rate discovering vulnerabilities across 20 programming languages. Both models are available now at the same introductory pricing as 3.7 Flash.

Marvell Technology has granted Google the right to acquire up to $12.2 billion in Marvell stock as part of an expanded semiconductor partnership. The deal, which boosted Marvell shares 9.9% on Wednesday, signals deepening collaboration between the two companies on chip development. The arrangement gives Google a financial stake in Marvell while securing access to semiconductor capabilities.

AI automation startup Relay has shut down, with its staff joining Google's Chrome team. Founder and CEO Jacob Bank indicated the team will work on integrating AI capabilities into Chrome to help users accomplish tasks. The move represents Google's continued expansion of AI features across its product ecosystem.