Google’s Orbital AI Test, Gemini Voice Models, and Faster Video Generation | UpNext AI – September 25, 2026

Google prepares an orbital AI-computing test, Gemini releases new text-to-speech models, and new research explores faster video diffusion and more realistic evaluation for clinical AI.

Covered in this episode:

- Google’s Project Suncatcher satellite test, scheduled for October 1st

- Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS, plus a hands-on playground

- TRACK, a training-free approach to accelerating video diffusion

- BRIE, a living benchmark for retrieving information from electronic health records

- Reported OpenAI agent activity against government and university sites

- TypeSafe AI’s reported Jev fundraising discussions

- Wired’s experience with the Instinct consumer AI agent

- Lightspeed’s planned early-stage AI fund for India

Source links:

- Google Project Suncatcher: https://arstechnica.com/google/2026/09/googles-first-suncatcher-orbital-data-center-test-launches-october-1/