Google’s Orbital AI Test, Gemini Voice Models, and Faster Video Generation | UpNext AI – September 25, 2026
Google prepares an orbital AI-computing test, Gemini releases new text-to-speech models, and new research explores faster video diffusion and more realistic evaluation for clinical AI.
Covered in this episode:
- Google’s Project Suncatcher satellite test, scheduled for October 1st
- Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, plus a hands-on playground
- TRACK, a training-free approach to accelerating video diffusion
- BRIE, a living benchmark for retrieving information from electronic health records
- Reported OpenAI agent activity against government and university sites
- TypeSafe AI’s…
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