New Google AI updates are absolutely
insane and this week was one of the
biggest weeks Google has had all year.
Five things dropped, a new voice model
that talks and thinks at the exact same
time, an AI agent that got its own
Google account and now runs a whole
household, a brand new image tool built
straight into Google Docs and Slides, a
personal story app that went live for
everyone in the US, and a map of 9
billion changes to human DNA. I want to
go through all five, but I want to start
with the one that changes how you work
because I think most people are going to
miss why it matters. On September 15th,
Google launched Gemini 3.8 live and
Gemini 3.8 live extended thinking.
Google calls them their most advanced
live dialogue models yet. They speak 97
languages, they're built on Gemini 3
Pro, and they do something no voice
assistant has ever really done well.
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reads every comment, so drop one below
and he will see it. Here's the problem
with every voice AI you've used up to
now. You ask it something, it needs to
look something up, and it goes quiet.
Dead silence. You sit there wondering if
the thing crashed. Then 30 seconds
later, it comes back with an answer.
That gap killed voice AI for real work.
Nobody wants to talk to something that
freezes mid-sentence. Gemini 3.8 live
fixes that. It runs the look up in the
background while it keeps talking to
you. Google's own words describe it as
running tool calls without interrupting
the conversation. The model can say,
"Let me check that." and actually go
check while still speaking. The extended
thinking version goes further. It
narrates progress as it works, so it'll
tell you what step it's on while it's
doing it. Think about a real person
doing a task for you, they don't go
silent. They say, "Okay, I'm pulling
that up now, give me a second. All
right, I see it." That's the behavior
Google just built into a model. Google
also shipped Gemini 3.5 Transcriber
alongside it. That's a dedicated
speech-to-text model covering 85 plus
languages with low error rates. Now,
before I get into the agent that got its
own Google account, and this one is
genuinely strange, I want to say
something quick. Voice models like
Gemini 3.8 live only pay off if you know
what to point them at. That's the whole
game now. Inside the AI Profit
Boardroom, we've got a 30-day roadmap
for exactly this, how to set up voice
agents that handle your follow-ups, your
client calls, your inbox hands-free. We
run four coaching calls every week, and
right now a lot of those calls are
people working through Gemini and
Workspace automations live. Bring your
setup, we'll fix it on the call. There's
a prompt library built for Google's
tools specifically, daily tutorials that
walk you through new releases like this
one step by step, so you're not
guessing. And business owners in there,
a lot of them already running Gemini
agents in their business today. There's
a member map, so you can find people
near you doing the same thing. Link in
the comments and description, or go to
aprofitboardroom.com. Okay, the agent
with its own Google account. On
September 17th, Google Labs announced a
new version of CC. CC started in
December 2025 as a personal productivity
agent. It got popular fast with early
testers. In May, Google brought it into
the Gemini app as Daily Brief. Now,
Google rebuilt it completely. CC is now
an agent for families and households,
and here's the part that made me stop.
CC now has its own Google account, not
your account, its own, with its own
email address, its own identity, its own
permission set. Up to six people can
join one CC. Each person picks what they
share with it. Emails from your kids'
school, the swim center, the vet, you
can forward things to CC's email
address, or you can set it so certain
senders always go to CC automatically.
Google says CC will even suggest senders
to add each week. Then CC sorts through
all of it and builds one shared daily
brief for the whole household. Google
calls it Your day ahead. It connects to
calendar and tasks. It adds events
automatically based on what people
share. But, it doesn't stop at reading.
It does things. CC can fill out
permission slips. It can fill in
registration PDFs. It can build school
supply shopping lists. It can plan
weekly meals. It can work out drive
times between activities. So, you know,
if you can actually make both. It can
create shared docs and sheets. And if
it's missing something it needs, it
asks. Then, it updates its group memory
so it doesn't have to ask again. All
right, third one. This one is more
immediately useful for most people
watching. Google picks. It went
generally available on September 1st.
It's Google's AI image creation and
editing tool. And it's built directly
into workspace. It runs on Nala Banana,
Google's image model. The thing that
makes picks different from most AI image
tools is object-level editing. Most
image AI works one shot. You type a
prompt, you get an image. And if one
thing is wrong, you start over. New
prompt, new image, new everything. Then,
you lose the parts you liked. Picks lets
you select a single object inside the
image and change just that. The rest
stays put. You can edit text inside an
image. You can translate words inside an
image. You can isolate one element and
swap it out. It also generates several
options from one prompt so you pick
instead of re-rolling. You get to it at
picks.new. It works as a standalone app
on the web and it's built into docs and
slides already. Select an image inside a
doc or a slide, click once and you're
editing with the full picks tool set
without leaving the tab. Drive
integration is rolling out. And Google
said you'll be able to open and edit
nearly any image saved in Drive with one
click. And it collaborates like the rest
of workspace. Share a link. Your
teammate edits the same image. Same as a
doc. Dream beans. It's a Google Labs
app. It launched back in June for AI
Ultra subscribers in the US. Earlier
this month, Google opened it up to all
accounts in the US 18 and over on
Android and iOS. Here's what it does.
Overnight, it goes through the Google
apps you connect and builds you a small
set of stories for the morning. The
connected apps are Gmail, calendar,
photos, YouTube search history, and now
Gemini. You pick which ones. It needs at
least one to work. It runs on Google's
personal intelligence system, the same
one behind the Gemini app and AI mode.
And it uses nano banana two to draw a
custom illustration for every single
story. Google was clear about the design
goal. In their words, the goal is not to
scroll forever. It's a finite
collection. You finish it. It ends.
That's a real choice. Every other feed
on your phone is built to never end.
Google built one that stops. The stories
can be places to explore, shows to
watch, reminders about something coming
up. You can tap in to go deeper, book
something, save it, or share it. If a
story misses, you thumbs down it or tune
it. If it missed a new hobby you picked
up, you tell it and future collections
reflect that. It takes up to a day to
build your first set. And your dream
being settings are separate from your
Gemini and AI mode settings. So, choices
in one don't bleed into the other. You
can delete your data or clear parts of
your feedback history in the app. And
fifth, this one has nothing to do with
marketing and I still think it's the
most impressive thing Google shipped
this month, AlphaFold Atlas. Google
DeepMind released it on September 8th.
Human DNA has about 3 billion base
pairs. There are roughly 9 billion
possible single letter changes you could
make to it. DeepMind predicted the
effect of all 9 billion of them, every
single one, and put it in a database.
It's a 1 petabyte data set. Scientific
American noted it's about 30 times
larger than the AlphaFold database,
though less accurate. Here's why it
matters. Scientists understand the 2% of
the genome that codes for proteins
fairly well. The other 98% is the
control panel. It decides when genes
turn on, how much, and where. Most
variations tied to traits and disease
sit in that 98% and it's been the
hardest part to read. Before this, a
researcher had to pick which variants to
test, then run the model on each one,
which means you had to already have a
guess. So, let me tie these five
together because there's a pattern.
Every single one of them is about the
same thing. Taking work that used to
happen in sequence and doing it in
parallel. Gemini 3.8 live doesn't stop
talking to go do the task. It does both.
CC doesn't wait for one person to gather
everything. Six people feed it and it
sorts. Pिक्स doesn't make you regenerate
the whole image to change one word. It
edits the part. Dream Beans doesn't make
you check six apps. It reads them
overnight and hands you one short stack.
Alpha Genome Atlas doesn't make
researchers run the model one variant at
a time. It ran all 9 billion in advance.
Same idea five times in one week. Both
groups have access to the exact same
tools. One group just sat down and
learned them. If you want to be in the
first group, that's what we built the AI
Profit Boardroom for. We've got a 30-day
roadmap for Google's agent stack
specifically. Gemini live voice agents,
workspace automations, Pिक्स for your
visuals, shared agents for your team,
four coaching calls every week where we
go deep on this exact stuff and you can
bring your own setup and ask questions
live. Daily tutorials showing you
step-by-step how to use each release as
it ships so you're never behind. A
prompt library built around Google's
tools. Business owners inside, plenty of
them already automating their lead,
follow-up, and content with Gemini right
now. And a member map so you can connect
with people near you doing the same
work. Someone's always online. Link in
the comments and description or go to
aiprofitboardroom.com.
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