Google DeepMind Releases Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber: One Core Model, Two Access Envelopes
Google just announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and marking the third Flash release in six weeks. Both variants run on the same foundational intelligence, refined through long-running agentic loops that recursively evaluate the underlying models. What separates them is not architecture, it is the safety envelope and who is allowed through it. Is it deployable? Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available today through the Gemini API, Google AI
Google DeepMind released two variants of the same foundational AI model that differ only in their safety restrictions rather than their underlying architecture. The standard version is available through multiple platforms for general use, while the specialized cybersecurity version is restricted to vetted defenders such as government authorities and infrastructure operators through a gated access program. The new model executes additional reasoning steps and tool calls on complex tasks, which improves accuracy but increases token consumption compared to its predecessor. Performance improvements are demonstrated through benchmarks in software engineering, vulnerability discovery, and patch generation, with the cybersecurity variant positioned as cost-competitive with larger models on defensive security tasks.
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Anthropic releases new Mythos and Fable models amid RSI concerns
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Also reported by The Verge, SiliconANGLE and MarkTechPost
Runway’s Praxis-1 world action model for robotics is now available
Praxis-1 builds on Runway’s work as a founding member of the Cosmos Coalition, advancing open world models for physical AI. | Source: Runway Runway AI Inc. yesterday released Praxis-1, its world action model for robotics. The model is now available to developers with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license. Runway first announced Praxis-1 in September with launch partners including Noble Machines, Standard Bots, and Ultra. Since then, these companies have been running the model on their own ha
Google releases Gemini 4 Carbon with agent ‘swarm’ feature
Google is rolling out its latest AI model, Gemini 4 Carbon, to the general public after releasing it to a select group of "cybersecurity defenders" two weeks ago. Google claims Carbon is its "strongest model" yet, and capable of competing with the very best systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. Google says Gemini 4 Carbon "pushes the frontier even further" than Argon, referring to the company's other frontier model that launched only last month. The company said Argon will likely
Gemini 4 Carbon is now available
The latest version aims to deliver improved performance while reducing the computational resources and energy required for AI operations.
Google Launches Gemini Decisions API With Gemini Decision 1 at $0.10/M Tokens
Google has launched the Gemini Decisions API, powered by a new model, Gemini Decision 1 (gemini-decision-1). The Gemini Decisions API does not generate text. It scores up to 1,000 typed questions against one shared input and returns calibrated probabilities. For developers, this targets the small branching calls inside agents: routing, policy checks, tool selection and grading. Google prices it at $0.10 per 1M input tokens, with zero output tokens billed. TL;DR Size: Context is 262,144 t
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Introducing AlphaProof Code: a breakthrough in verifying complex software at depth
AlphaProof Code agents wrote three million lines of proofs in Lean to verify Signal’s core encryption.