cybersecurity AI

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third Flash model in six weeks, pricing it identically to its predecessor at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens. The launch coincides with a favorable antitrust ruling and public praise from Berkshire Hathaway's Greg Abel, giving Alphabet a stronger narrative after a four-month stock slide.

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says the company is prioritizing token efficiency and compact, single-purpose models over general-purpose frontier systems. New models MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and MAI-Image-2.5-Flash claim strong cost-performance gains, but rely on an orchestration layer that still routes hard tasks to OpenAI's reasoning models.

The U.S. Commerce Department has cleared Anthropic to restore access to its Mythos 5 AI model for select cybersecurity partners, two weeks after imposing export controls over jailbreak concerns. The related Fable 5 model remains under government restrictions.