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Google designs persistent Private AI Compute memory around device-held keys

Google has documented a stateful extension to Private AI Compute that stores per-user AI memory as encrypted cloud data while a user device retains the key material needed to unlock it. The design uses attested enclaves, an open-source Oak memory server and a public binary ledger, but Google has not announced broad availability, and a 2026 Trail of Bits review left two findings unresolved.

Google DeepMind - Advancing Private AI Compute with secure, server-side memory · Google - Private AI Compute technical brief, September 2026

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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS with prompt-designed and replicated voices

Google has begun rolling out Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Gemini 3.8 Flash-Lite TTS through the Gemini API and Google AI Studio, adding prompt-designed voices, 30-second voice replication with matched verbal consent and line-by-line performance control. Paid standard API pricing through 31 December is $0.50 per million text input tokens and $9 per million audio output tokens for Flash, or $6 for Flash-Lite; Gemini Enterprise API access is still coming soon.

Google - Gemini 3.8 text-to-speech says hello · Google DeepMind - Gemini 3.8 Audio model card