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★ Must ReadGoogle announces Gemini 4 and says its so capable that only trusted cyber defenders can have it right now

Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a "set of trusted cyber defenders," and Kavukcuoglu says that Google is "actively engaged in the U.

The Verge AI· Jay Peters· 2 min· 9d agoSource →
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You said no MCP

Trending on Hacker News with 618 points and 347 comments.

Hacker News · 1 min
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The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here

OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.

WIRED AI · 2 min
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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.

TechCrunch AI · 2 min
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Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design

Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0. 3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI head of design Benji Taylor calls it a "newly refreshed Grokipedia.

The Verge AI · 2 min
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A ‘Morally Binding’ White House Accord on AI Safety

The leaders in AI were invited to the White House.

Zvi Mowshowitz · 2 min
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03THE TENSION2▸
PERSPECTIVE A
“Can companies like OpenAI keep getting away with what they are doing? An interview with Fordham law professor Zephyr Teachout”
— Gary Marcus

“The most powerful tool is the power to dissolve corporations that engage in repeat lawbreaking.

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PERSPECTIVE B
“Gemini 4 Argon”
— Hacker News

See also: Gemini 4 Argon (High): Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis -

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★ Must Read[AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6.1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decisions API, Agents API, Spaces, Marketplace, and 1.2 Billion ChatGPT WAU

Latent Space — [AINews] OpenAI DevDay 2026: Dots, 6. 1 Sol, Ultrafast, Decis...

Latent Space· 3 min· 10d agoSource →

BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face incident

Gary Marcus — BREAKING: OpenAI was warned, months before the Hugging Face ...

Gary Marcus· 3 min· 10d agoSource →

Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic

Shipping Opus/Sonnet 5.

Latent Space· 3 min· 11d agoSource →
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Qwen3.8 Flash Next GGUF Benchmark: Q4 to Q1 Accuracy and Token Efficiency

Kaitchup — Qwen3. 8 Flash Next GGUF Benchmark: Q4 to Q1 Accuracy and Tok...

Kaitchup· Benjamin Marie· 2 min· 10d agoSource →

2026 in LLMs (so far)

Plus Claude Opus 5.

Simon Willison· 2 min· 11d agoSource →

How AI Agents Evolved: From AutoGPT to Claude Code

The real shift from AutoGPT loops to coding agents you can review

Louis Bouchard· Louis-François Bouchard· 2 min· 11d agoSource →
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★ Must ReadWhy Dwarkesh is Wrong about Computer Use + How OpenAI shipped its Jev competitor in 1 Week

Our DevDay coverage - the first pod on the DevDay lineup - dives in with the leaders of OpenAI’s CUA team and API platform.

Latent Space· 3 min· 9d agolong readSource →
07VOICES3▸
“ according to chief AI architect and Google DeepMind SVP Koray Kavukcuoglu. But the company is limiting access at first to a ”
— Jay Peters, The Verge AI
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“The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here”
— Reece Rogers, WIRED AI
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“Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet”
— Lucas Ropek, TechCrunch AI
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