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  "id": 9630248,
  "title": "Google updates Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, an animated AI persona that lip-syncs and shows different facial expressions, for Gemini Enterprise customers (Emma Roth/The Verge)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/google-updates-gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-an-animated-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-09-24T20:50:10.000Z",
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    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/tech/1000328/google-gemini-ai-live-avatar-face"
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  "summary": "Google's Live Avatar can lip-sync and show different facial expressions. … Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users …",
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        "outlet": "Android Police",
        "title": "Google Docs now pulls your Gemini Notebook research without the tab switching",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/google-docs-now-pulls-your-gemini-notebook-research-without-the-tab",
        "published": "2026-09-24T11:34:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "9to5Mac",
        "title": "Adobe expands creative tool access to Google Gemini, brings Acrobat to Claude",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/adobe-expands-creative-tool-access-to-google-gemini-brings-acrobat-to",
        "published": "2026-09-24T13:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "XDA Developers",
        "title": "Google’s new experimental Gemini Intelligence feature makes the phone calls you’d rather avoid",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/googles-new-experimental-gemini-intelligence-feature-makes-the-phone",
        "published": "2026-09-24T16:00:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Google is testing Call for Me, which lets Gemini call businesses on behalf of users, initially for Pixel 11 users with a Gemini subscription in the US (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/google-is-testing-call-for-me-which-lets-gemini-call-businesses-on",
        "published": "2026-09-24T16:10:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Verge",
        "title": "Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-gives-googles-ai-a-face",
        "published": "2026-09-24T19:59:26.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Android Authority",
        "title": "Google’s new Gemini Live Avatars want to make support bots feel more human",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/24/googles-new-gemini-live-avatars-want-to-make-support-bots-feel-more",
        "published": "2026-09-24T21:03:59.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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