Google's Gemini now makes phone calls to businesses on your behalf
The first outbound voice agent from a major lab ships — beta, Pixel-only for now. Plus GPT-6's cheaper models reach Codex and Meta opens a SAM 3.1 API.
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A frontier lab ships a consumer phone-calling agent
Gemini's new 'Call for Me' dials a business, works through automated phone menus, waits on hold, and holds the conversation while you follow a live transcript and can take over anytime. It's beta, Pixel 11, US-only, and needs a paid Gemini plan — with no developer API yet. For builders, the outbound-voice-agent category just got a shipping reference from a major lab: the live-transcript-plus-takeover UX is the pattern to copy, and an API is the thing to watch for.
Update: GPT-6 Sol and Luna reach Codex's model picker
OpenAI's new GPT-6 models are now selectable in Codex CLI (v0.156.1) with refreshed rate-limit guidance. Luna runs $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens and Sol $2/$10 — roughly half their predecessors — both with ~1M context and up to 90% off cached input. Your coding agent can now route to Luna for cents per task, or to Sol at half the price of Opus 5.5.
Meta's SAM 3.1 is now callable as a hosted API
Meta's open-weight segmentation model — which tracks up to 16 objects in a single forward pass and runs 16-32 fps on one H100 — is now available through a hosted Model API alongside the downloadable facebook/sam3.1 weights and example notebooks. Real-time video object tracking is a weekend build now: hit the API, or self-host the weights and fine-tune for your domain.