Google DeepMind released Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking, two audio models designed for developers that (The Decoder) top the Artificial Analysis speech-to-speech leaderboard. The models are priced at $1.38 per hour of voice conversation, substantially undercutting OpenAI’s GPT-Live-1 offering. The release represents a competitive pricing move in the real-time voice inference space as both vendor and open-weight approaches mature.
Meta launched a WhatsApp Business MCP server enabling developers to integrate AI coding agents like Claude, Cursor, Codex, and ChatGPT into WhatsApp Business workflow automation (TechCrunch). The MCP integration allows agents to handle setup, messaging templates, testing, and troubleshooting tasks. The release demonstrates expanding tool availability for agent orchestration across enterprise messaging platforms.