{"article":{"slug":"google-gemini-3-8-live","kind":"model","source":{"title":"Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking","url":"https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-gemini-3-8-live-extended-thinking/","date":"2026-09-15"},"headline":"Personal Google AI plans now put a tool-using voice assistant inside Gmail and Docs","whatChanged":"Google released Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking on September 15. Both hold spoken conversations in 97 languages while calling tools in the background, and Extended Thinking reasons as it speaks. Google AI subscribers can use Extended Thinking in Gmail and Keep, and Pro and Ultra subscribers can use it in Docs. Search Live runs on 3.8 Live. Businesses get a private preview in Gemini Enterprise, and generated audio carries a SynthID watermark.","whyItMatters":"The consumer rollout comes first, and that is where company data can slip out. An employee paying for Google AI on a personal account can now talk through a work problem with an assistant sitting inside their own email and documents. Spoken requests that end in a sent email or an edited file also leave a thinner record than typed ones. Business use is still in private preview, which gives IT time to set the rules for work accounts and for personal ones.","issuer":"Google","glance":"Google released Gemini 3.8 Live on September 15, a voice model that keeps talking while it runs tools, now in Gmail, Docs, and Search.","keyFact":"In Gmail, Docs, Keep, and Search Live","action":"Check which Gemini features are switched on for work Google accounts, and write down the rule for personal ones.","companyLabel":"Public edition"},"issue":{"id":"2026-09-21","publishedLabel":"Week of September 21, 2026","isLatest":false},"position":{"index":3,"total":5},"next":{"slug":"eu-ai-act-article-50-transparency","headline":"Chatbots and synthetic media reaching the EU now carry disclosure duties"},"session":null}