Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS. The company said the models are its "most expressive audio generation models yet."

LittleHorse Enterprises released Saddle Command Center 1.3, an update that makes it easier to create, deploy and bring AI applications to the enterprise. New features include agent creation, task workers, a JavaScript SDK and serverless trial offering.

• LittleHorse’s McNealy on Business-as-Code, AI agents, orchestration

Amazon said it is opening its seller tools to third-party agents starting with Anthropic's Claude as well as Amazon Quick. In a statement, Amazon added persistent memory to its Seller Assistant to help with pricing and inventory recommendations.

Meta detailed Petal, a subsea cable delivering petabit capacity at transoceanic distances. The cable will connect France and the US and cover 4,300 miles. Petal, built with NEC and Sumitomo Electric, will switch on in 2029 and carry twice the capacity of the top transoceanic cables without an increase in power or infrastructure. The company detailed Petal in its engineering blog.

Qualcomm unveiled Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 in a move that is aimed at mobile experiences and on-device agentic AI. The two platforms are designed to boost performance, AI applications, gaming, camera and connectivity. The chips will land in upcoming flagship devices from a wide range of smartphone brands.

Nutanix said it will acquire Ryax Technologies, a company focused on AI compute orchestration and management software. Nutanix said Ryax, based in Lyon, France, will be integrated into future releases of Nutanix Kubernetes Platform and Nutanix Enterprise AI.

Meta's Muse AI agent has made a splash and people are thinking Meta has cured its AI monetization issues, created its next big product and made our lives so much better.

Cool your jets kids.

• First, folks that think Muse is going to drive inference are driving up AI chip stocks. Umm ok if you say so.
• Second, just because you download the Muse AI agent doesn't mean you're going to pay for it or even use it. Remember Threads?
• And third, well there's this little word called trust. I don't trust Mark Zuckerberg as far as I could throw him and nothing since the beginning of social media would give me a reason to. So now I'm supposed to believe he's the privacy king with Muse?

Ahead of Meta's Connect conference, traders are certainly buying the Muse story. It remains to see if this is a pop and drop or something more sustaining.

More on Muse's AI agent ambitions.

• Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent
• Will enterprises learn to love Meta AI models again?
• Meta releases Spark 1.3, promises more
• Meta Settles Lawsuit to the Tune of $17 Billion: What it Could Mean for Advertisers
• Meta releases open weight Muse Glimmer model with open Muse Spark 1.2 on tap
  

A Deloitte report noted that audit committees are increasingly focusing on AI governance. The report, Audit Committee Practices Report, found that 54% of respondents are more focused on emerging risks over the past year. Not surprisingly, 75% of respondents see AI governance as a top 3 priority, up from 35% a year ago.

See Esteban Kolsky's insights for boards.

Here's our take on the Salesforce Dreamforce happenings.

Teradata said it has revamped its Tera AI assistant to create an AI coworker focused on enterprise data. Tera will enable analysts, engineers and database admins to analyze data, build apps and automate workflows within Teradata and outside the platform.

The company said Tera now has a vendor-neutral context engine, a harness to route work and agent skills designed for data engineering, analysis and data science.

Palo Alto Networks said it has added Anthropic's Claude Mythos and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 to its Unit 42 frontier AI defense system, which is billed as "an agentic offensive security service."

Unit 42 has a multi-model harness for cybersecurity and includes continuous testing, multiple models, adversary simulation and accelerated remediation.

Manhattan Associates launched Editions for the Manhattan Active supply chain management portfolio. Editions are designed for multiple company sizes as well as industries.

The Editions are Essentials, Enterprise and Enterprise Premier and available for or ActiveWarehouse, ActiveTransportation, ActiveStore and ActiveOrder on Manhattan's award-winning ActivePlatform.