Google just opened up Gemini's "Call for Me." The AI dials

2026-09-25 05:17

Google just opened up Gemini's "Call for Me." The AI dials businesses using your number, tells them it's "Google's AI assistant, calling on your behalf," and handles the actual errand: check a menu, book a table, move an appointment. Live transcript the whole time, and you can hit Take over whenever you want the phone back. It won't dial 911, take a payment, or read out your SSN or password. Limits: US only, Pixel 11 only, paid Gemini plan plus the Phone beta, and a daily cap on calls.

Google moved 1080p AI video generation into the free tier.

Log into vids.new with any Google account, hit "Create AI videos," and Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash generates at 1080p for free. You can also extend scenes, set exact durations, and upscale older clips to 1080p. Limits: 6 generations per month on personal accounts, desktop only, invisible SynthID watermark on every clip. 🔗 workspace.google.com/products/vids

2026-09-27

9router now routes decision models too

. Set one up on the system-one page and it goes through 9router like everything else, one place to manage and call it.

2026-09-23

I stuffed an agent into an Android phone.

You've probably run into those short videos lately where an agent drives a phone around by itself. This one is called Mika, and it's a free open-source project. It's an Android app that works in the background through accessibility mode, so it can use pretty much any other app you have installed. Reply to someone on WeChat, scroll Xiaohongshu, drop something in a cart and check out. It finds the buttons by looking at the screen. There's no API to wire up, and it doesn't care what resolution your phone is. When it reaches a payment step or a captcha it stops and lets you finish. 🔗 github.com/wangzan101/Mika

2026-11-01

My product went profitable, and something in me broke.

Someone on Xiaohongshu posted a while back that she sells phone keyboard skins she made with Codex. Eight, ten yuan a pack. Over a thousand a month. I've been at mine for months. October: a few hundred copies, $1,200 gross. Platform fee 30%, tax 10%, so 60% should have landed. It came to just over a thousand dollars. I still don't know how the math pulled that off. I have an overseas bank account. Once lost $500 to a wire transfer off one. I'd still tell you to take payout through WorldFirst: less hassle, lower fees. You can also get a Hong Kong USD credit card tied to it that spends your WorldFirst balance directly. Digital card is free. Physical is $4. Mainland purchases under ¥200 skip the processing fee, and right now there's 1% cashback.

2026-11-01