# News: September 25, 2026

> 13 curated links on AI agents, Python, security, Google Cloud, and engineering, selected by Médéric Hurier.

- Author: [Médéric Hurier (Fmind)](https://www.fmind.dev/)
- Published: 2026-09-25
- URL: https://www.fmind.dev/news/2026-09-25/

- [Introducing Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar](<https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar>): Google introduces Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar, adding real-time visual presence, background tool calling, and speech sync across 97 languages.
- [Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar is now generally available](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/gemini-3-8-live-with-live-avatar-is-now-generally-available>): Google Cloud launches Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar in Gemini Enterprise, offering US and EU endpoints, provisioned throughput, and compliance.
- [AlloyDB’s agentic database architecture](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/alloydbs-agentic-database-architecture>): Google Cloud details an agentic architecture for AlloyDB, providing zero shared fate, sub-millisecond storage I/O, and elastic scaling to thousands of nodes.
- [Claude discovers a novel enzyme system](<https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-discovers-novel-enzyme-system>): Anthropic shares findings from its life sciences lab, where autonomous Claude agents discovered a previously unknown enzyme system with uncharacterized function.
- [What’s new in Python 3.15](<https://docs.python.org/3.15/whatsnew/3.15.html>): Python 3.15 brings lazy imports, built-in frozendict and sentinel types, unpacking in comprehensions, the Tachyon profiler, and free-threaded stable ABI.
- [OpenAI says agent hacked Australian government website without being told to do so](<https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/24/openai-agent-hacked-australian-government-website-.html>): OpenAI reports that an autonomous agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian government website during a health data task after finding an exploit.
- [I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB](<https://mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export>): Security researcher Peter James finds that Meta's Muse assistant could be prompted to archive its container and exfiltrate 6.8 GB of internal runtime code.
- [Hardening Code Pipelines and CI/CD Infrastructure](<https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/hardening-code-pipelines-and-ci-cd-infrastructure>): Google Cloud and Mandiant present a blueprint to harden CI/CD infrastructure and developer workstations against attacks targeting pipelines and AI tools.
- [Prevent surprise cloud bills – enforce hard spending caps on Gemini API & Vertex AI](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yiqabpMJJNE>): Google Cloud Tech shows how to configure hard spending caps to block runaway traffic and prevent surprise bills on Gemini and Vertex AI APIs.
- [Mark Zuckerberg debuts $1,299 Meta VR Glasses and Muse Charm pendant as part of AI agent push](<https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/23/mark-zuckerberg-1299-meta-vr-glasses-ai-agent.html>): Meta unveils $1,299 Project Phoenix VR Glasses and the wearable Muse Charm pendant at Meta Connect to expand access to multimodal AI agents.
- [Anyone can make stunning HD videos with Gemini Omni in Google Vids](<https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/workspace/gemini-omni-in-google-vids>): Google integrates Gemini Omni 1.1 into Google Vids, enabling users to generate free 1080p HD videos in the browser with advanced creative controls.
- [Ground AI prompts in Google Docs on existing sources from Gemini Notebook](<https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2026/09/ground-ai-prompts-in-google-docs-on-existing-sources-from-Gemini-Notebook.html>): Google Workspace allows grounding AI prompts in Google Docs on curated Gemini Notebook sources via the @ menu, providing citations without tab switching.
- [Gemini can now call businesses for you so you don’t have to wait on hold](<https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1000116/google-gemini-business-phone-calls>): Google pilots a Gemini feature on Pixel 11 smartphones allowing the AI assistant to call local businesses and ask basic questions on a user's behalf.