DAILY AI BRIEF  — Sept 3

GOOGLE :
> Gemini 3.8 Flash is live — third Flash in six weeks. Workhorse for coding and agents, 1M context. Intro price $0.75 / $3.75 through Dec 31.
> Flash Cyber is the defender twin (vuln find + auto-patch). Gated to Fairwind: governments, infra, trusted maintainers.

META :
> Muse Spark 1.3 is out in Muse Code and the Meta Model API. Zuck: biggest jump yet on coding and agents, “almost too cheap to meter.”
> Beat GPT-5.6 and Opus 5 on DeepSWE 1.1. Watermelon  and Spark open weights are next.

OPENAI :
> gpt-6-astra slug is on the APIs. Employees and testers are posting about a possible drop today. Still not public.
> Already tagged Critical for cyber under the Preparedness Framework — extra safeguards, limited tools first.

XAI :
> Grok Bot is live on Android. Elon: “Grok @Bot now on Android.” Play Store, same “give it real work” agent as iOS.

* Didn't plan to post it initially cuz all the news was covered already, but here you go :P