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FLASH — Gemini 3.8 Flash landed on September 2, tuned for coding and agentic work. It is the third Flash release in roughly six weeksPRICING — $0.75 in and $3.75 out per million tokens, but only through the end of 2026. Reports put the January 2027 rates at $1.50 and $7.50BENCH — Terminal-Bench 2.1 climbed from 81.6% on 3.7 Flash to 90.8%. Finance-agent tasks come in at 61.4% and legal at 10.0%CAVEAT — That 10.0% on legal does beat the 6.7% it is measured against, though both numbers are low in absolute terms. Reporting only the winner would misleadLIMIT — On the hardest long-horizon software engineering, Opus 5 still leads. The sweet spot here looks like mid-difficulty agentic work, not everythingWORKSPACE — Alongside the model: one-click co-presenters in Meet, new Workspace Studio automation steps, wider Gemini custom instructions, and video summaries in Google VidsFLASH — Gemini 3.8 Flash landed on September 2, tuned for coding and agentic work. It is the third Flash release in roughly six weeksPRICING — $0.75 in and $3.75 out per million tokens, but only through the end of 2026. Reports put the January 2027 rates at $1.50 and $7.50BENCH — Terminal-Bench 2.1 climbed from 81.6% on 3.7 Flash to 90.8%. Finance-agent tasks come in at 61.4% and legal at 10.0%CAVEAT — That 10.0% on legal does beat the 6.7% it is measured against, though both numbers are low in absolute terms. Reporting only the winner would misleadLIMIT — On the hardest long-horizon software engineering, Opus 5 still leads. The sweet spot here looks like mid-difficulty agentic work, not everythingWORKSPACE — Alongside the model: one-click co-presenters in Meet, new Workspace Studio automation steps, wider Gemini custom instructions, and video summaries in Google Vids
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Four New Steps Landed in Workspace Studio, and I Am Opening the Reply Ones a Week Later

Workspace Studio gained Drive copy and move steps plus Chat and email reply steps. Using the rollout dates, where admin controls arrive before the features, here is how I separate the reversible actions from the ones I cannot take back.