{"data":{"id":"87e1a562-905f-4fe4-94c7-409ac9e72f1a","title":"Google says its new Gemini 3.8 Flash model ‘works harder’ but might cost more","summary":"Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash, a new AI model that performs more reasoning steps and uses external tools iteratively (calling them multiple times) compared to its predecessor, Gemini 3.7 Flash. Although it has the same initial pricing, Google warns the model may consume more tokens (units of text that the AI processes) to improve performance, potentially increasing costs for users.","solution":"N/A -- no mitigation discussed in source.","labels":["industry"],"sourceUrl":"https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/988742/google-gemini-3-8-flash","publishedAt":"2026-09-02T20:11:40.000Z","cveId":null,"cweIds":null,"cvssScore":null,"cvssSeverity":null,"severity":"info","attackType":[],"issueType":"news","affectedPackages":null,"affectedVendors":["Google"],"affectedVendorsRaw":["Google","Gemini 3.8 Flash","Gemini 3.7 Flash"],"classifierModel":"claude-haiku-4-5-20251001","classifierPromptVersion":"v3","cvssVector":null,"attackVector":null,"attackComplexity":null,"privilegesRequired":null,"userInteraction":null,"exploitMaturity":null,"epssScore":null,"patchAvailable":null,"disclosureDate":"2026-09-02T20:11:40.000Z","capecIds":null,"crossRefCount":0,"attackSophistication":"trivial","impactType":null,"aiComponentTargeted":"model","llmSpecific":true,"classifierConfidence":0.95,"researchCategory":null,"atlasIds":null}}