Google AI Mode Gemini 3.8 Flash Not Link / Citation Friendly?

Sep 03, 2026 06:41 PM - 3 hours ago 2

Google Flash Bolt Broken

As you know, Google rolled retired Gemini 3.8 Flash for subscribers to AI Mode and immoderate person started to play pinch it. And the early feedback is that AI Mode moving Gemini 3.8 Flash is not nexus aliases citation friendly. Meaning, AI Mode pinch Google's latest AI exemplary is little apt to mention sources and nexus to sources than erstwhile models.

Gagan Ghotra posted galore examples of searches he conducted successful AI Mode for top-of-the-funnel queries, and nary of them showed immoderate links aliases citations.

Here are immoderate of the screenshots he posted connected X:

Google Ai Mode Gemini 38 No Linksa

Google Ai Mode Gemini 38 No Linksb

Google Ai Mode Gemini 38 No Linksx

Google Ai Mode Gemini 38 No Linksd

More examples from Glenn Gabe:

Whoa, Gagan is right. See beneath betwixt default exemplary and 3.8 Flash. What is going connected here? First is 3.8 Flash and 2nd is default model. @rmstein @rajanpatel https://t.co/EH958CMDOn pic.twitter.com/VIY201Mbva

— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) September 3, 2026

I americium not judge why this would beryllium and I dream this is thing that Google tin hole soon.

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