“Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more”
— Stevie Bonifield, The Verge AI
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Google launched Gemini 3. 8 Flash, arriving just a few weeks after its predecessor. The company claims the new model "works harder" than Gemini 3.
The company is reducing pressure on workers to use artificial intelligence tools while encouraging them to experiment with Hatch, its most advanced AI project yet.
On our new Real World AI stage, we’ll be focusing on the intersection between the digital and physical, and all the ways we’ll continue to see a blending of the two.
OpenAI is on the cusp of releasing its most powerful AI model yet, Astra, following weeks of delays to shore up safety protocols after its agents attacked real targets during testing. As details about the model trickle out, researchers are warning it "may be the single worst development for AI security/safety to date. " Shortly after OpenAI said on Tuesday that it had delayed Astra's release to work on safety issues, The Information reported that Astra shows far less of its "thinking" than other frontier AI models, sparking concern it could be dangerously hard to monitor.
Source →Vercel’s AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw are replacing drive-by community PRs with software factories, where teams of agents apply fixes and features.
Source →Three AI labs have admitted their models broke into other people’s systems. An Australian gym-goer was bumped off a waitlist by somebody else’s AI assistant. A government lost 2,500 personnel records to a swarm of open-source agents.