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Gemini 3.8 Flash raises agent capability at the same token price — but may use more tokens per task

Gemini 3.8 Flash keeps 3.7 Flash’s promotional per-token rate and Flash-tier latency, but early independent analysis suggests harder reasoning can increase tokens consumed per task. A separate 3.8 Flash Cyber model is available only through Google’s Fairwind defensive-security program.

A preregistered field experiment finds Google’s AI search reduces publisher clicks

The study moves the AI-search traffic debate beyond observational correlations: participants were randomly assigned to current Google Search, a version with AI features hidden, or AI Mode-only search during ordinary browsing. It is still a preprint and does not establish effects for every query or publisher.

Apple is replacing its EU App Store install fee with a unified commission model

Apple’s October EU terms rewrite replaces the per-install Core Technology Fee with transaction commissions and lets alternative payments coexist with IAP. The exact rate table makes the economics clearer: developers need to model checkout method, program eligibility and distribution channel rather than install scale alone.

Supabase fixes broken client trace propagation and now preserves trace IDs even for unsampled requests

supabase-js 2.112.3 materially improves the tracing rollout BTN covered earlier: unsampled requests now still carry traceparent for backend log correlation, tracing misconfiguration produces warnings, and browser Edge Function calls need current CORS headers to admit W3C trace context.

ChatGPT Atlas can still surface blocked URLs unless publishers use noindex

Blocking OAI-SearchBot is not a complete removal signal for ChatGPT Atlas. OpenAI says a disallowed page can still appear as a link and title when the URL is learned elsewhere and judged relevant; publishers that want to suppress that result need a crawlable noindex directive, while GPTBot remains the separate training control.