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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.

Google is temporarily restricting new Gemini API access from service accounts

The change creates an authentication compatibility boundary for server-to-server Gemini integrations: an architecture that works in an existing project may not be reproducible with a newly introduced service account, and Google has not published an end date for the restriction.

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe gives developers separate live and file speech-to-text APIs at about $0.009 and $0.005 per minute

Gemini 3.5 Transcribe turns Google’s audio understanding into a purpose-built developer surface: low-latency live transcription costs roughly $0.009/minute at Google’s published assumptions, while file transcription is roughly $0.005/minute and supports richer metadata.

Google DeepMind is piloting double-blind frontier-model evaluations with confidential computing

The pilot attacks a persistent evaluation trade-off: labs do not want to reveal frontier-model internals, while evaluators do not want benchmark prompts leaking back to the model provider. DeepMind says a Singapore AI Safety Institute pilot kept both sides’ sensitive assets hidden during execution.