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Google Opens Lyria 3.5 to Developers and Adds Song Generation to Gemini

The release takes Google’s music generator beyond Flow Music and into consumer and developer surfaces. Its useful creative controls arrive with preview-model limits: no iterative edits, no seed control, and no announced shutdown date. The consequential change is distribution: a tool previously limited to Flow Music is now available through Google AI Studio, the API, and Gemini’s consumer interface.

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Google Puts WeatherNext 3’s Hourly AI Forecasts Into Search, Maps and Gemini

The launch moves an observation-led weather model from Google’s research stack into consumer products and cloud data tools. Its performance claims are substantial, while Google directs users seeking official severe-weather warnings and public-safety advisories to meteorological agencies. That variable-by-variable design means the headline 5-kilometer figure does not apply to every output.

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xAI Puts Grok 4.6 on Microsoft Foundry, Extending a Two-Week Cloud Rollout

Azure customers can now evaluate xAI’s model through managed endpoints and governance controls, but production terms for the public preview remain undefined. Grok 4.6 is now in Microsoft Foundry as a public preview for Azure customers. The listing gives xAI a managed route into an enterprise model catalog, where customers can test the model against alternatives in their existing cloud environment.

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Google Puts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe in Preview With Live and Recorded-Audio APIs

The release turns speech recognition into a Gemini product layer for developers and Google surfaces, but a product-specific price remains unavailable for teams weighing production use. Google has released Gemini 3.5 Transcribe in public preview, giving developers separate APIs for real-time voice interaction and recorded-audio processing. But Google’s pricing page does not list a price for Gemini 3.5 Transcribe.

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August 2026

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Databricks Says Its New Extraction Mode Beats Frontier Models on the Documents That Break Them

Precision Mode is designed for cross-page reasoning, enormous line-item outputs and deeply nested schemas. Databricks reports a seven-point lead over its best tested chunk-and-merge baseline, but the evaluation blends internal and public datasets. Databricks is promising a more reliable way to turn the documents that overwhelm ordinary AI extraction into structured data.

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