Audio Connects Product Announcements: The Koda Signal, 2026-09-25

Koda Signal daily AI briefing for 2026-09-25.

In this episode: • Audio Connects Product Announcements: Meta unveiled audio-only, camera-free AI glasses starting at $349, with shipping scheduled for October 13, 2026. Google's reported Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS release adds another audio-focused announcement, offering authorized voice cloning from 30-second samples, 100+ languages and dialects, and 2,000+ voices. • Gemini Timeline Without Benchmarks: Google DeepMind reportedly has Gemini 4 in post-training and could launch it before the end of 2026. The available reporting includes no new public benchmark scores, making this a development-timeline update rather than a demonstrated performance advance.

Full briefing: https://www.koda.community/morning-briefing-koda-2026-09-25.html