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Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and restricted Flash Cyber models

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash for broad consumer, enterprise and developer access and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for trusted defenders. The shared core improves long-horizon coding, autonomous tool use and vulnerability discovery, while the cyber tier remains access-restricted.

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CURRENT ASSESSMENT · REVISION 1
TOWARD DOOM86confidence 94/100

Why it moved the index

A low-cost, broadly deployed model now performs stronger long-horizon autonomous work, while its restricted cyber sibling exceeds prior vulnerability-discovery results, directly increasing consequential agency and dangerous-domain capability despite access controls.

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Assessment history

  1. R1
    Toward 86 · confidence 94

    Adds the newly dated Gemini 3.8 release and its exact access split.

    03 Sept 2026
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  1. DoomBench assesses “Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and restricted Flash Cyber models” as evidence moving toward doom, with magnitude 86 and confidence 94 out of 100 in the autonomy and agency category.

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  3. DoomBench summarizes “Google launches Gemini 3.8 Flash and restricted Flash Cyber models” as follows: Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash for broad consumer, enterprise and developer access and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber for trusted defenders....

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