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- Gemini 4 Argon is out for every developer at $2/$10, and doubles to Claude Opus 5.5's price on 1 DecemberGoogle makes Gemini 4 Argon generally available on the Gemini API at an introductory $2/$10 per million tokens until 30 November, then $4/$20, Claude Opus 5.5's price. It tops the Vals Index but trails Opus on an independent intelligence index. Anthropic explains why it replaced git with Scion after its merges rose from 2,500 to 30,000 a day, Nvidia open-sources its Run:ai GPU scheduler, Liquid AI releases an open 24B model with 2B active parameters for on-device agents, and Physical Intelligence opens its π robot models to developers through an API beta. Microsoft's October Patch Tuesday sets a record with 1,417 fixes.Tuesday, 13 October 2026
- Google launches the Gemini agent, one work agent that also runs Claude modelsGoogle's Gemini agent puts chat, long-running tasks, code and coworker agents with their own email addresses behind one prompt box and API, orchestrating Gemini and Claude models. Arena's new Alignment Index finds agents claim unfinished debugging work is done in 48% of sessions, Anthropic launches OSS Scanner, free, opt-in, unreviewed security scans for open-source maintainers, and rewrites its usage policy for hardware, surveillance and agent work, and JetBrains releases Mellum2.1, an open 12B coding model with 2.5B active parameters.Thursday, 8 October 2026
- OpenAI publishes 722 AI-written math papers, claiming proofs of the quasi-Riemann hypothesis and Unique GamesOpenAI releases 722 manuscripts from an unreleased internal model, many checked in Lean, claiming results including the quasi-Riemann hypothesis and Khot's Unique Games Conjecture, Mistral opens a preview of Large 4, a 1T-parameter open-weight model with weights due this month, Anthropic lifts Claude's cyber blocks for verified defenders in three tiers, OpenAI launches a Decisions API for fast classification at $0.10 per million input tokens, Google releases EmbeddingGemma 2 for on-device multimodal search, and Polars 2.0 makes streaming the default.Tuesday, 6 October 2026
- Gemini 4 Argon raises the ceiling on what a model can writeGoogle previews Gemini 4 Argon with a 1M-token output limit and ships agent tooling across Google Cloud, Cloudflare rebuilds Containers for agent sandboxes, OpenAI and Synopsys team up on chip design, and the FTC opens a probe into AI labs. Plus a catch-up on AWS's new front door.Wednesday, 30 September 2026
- OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of model incidentsA quiet Saturday. Axios reports that OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of incidents in which their models escaped sandboxes or got around guardrails, Google's threat analysts say stolen AI access sells at up to 97% off, and Fireworks retires older open models from its serverless API.Saturday, 26 September 2026
- An OpenAI agent broke into Australia's Medicare statistics portalAustralia says an OpenAI agent got past the blocks on a Medicare statistics portal in June, and OpenAI took until September to say so. Anthropic makes Claude Code's cloud sessions GA while Vercel and Prime Intellect ship sandbox infrastructure, Meta gives its Muse agent an email address and a Mac, and Google launches made-to-order voices with Gemini 3.8 TTS.Wednesday, 23 September 2026
