Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model built for lengthy coding, professional and cybersecurity tasks. It has a one-million-token output limit, but is initially being rolled out only to trusted cyber defenders, not the public.
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What happened Google says Argon is already being used internally and is opening through its…
Google says Gemini 4 Argon has helped optimise memory use across its data centres, freeing more than 300 TiB once changes are rolled out, with estimated total savings of 500 TiB to 1 PiB. Those figures are Google’s account of internal work, not independently reported measurements.
The company also says Argon agents replaced 32,000 lines of SIMD code in a Rust port of its libgav1 video decoder. Google says the resulting memory-safe decoder runs 2.7 times faster than that Rust port, with identical video output, bringing it closer to the optimised C++ version.
On external benchmarks, Google reports a 77.9% score on DeepSWE v1.1 for long-horizon software engineering. It also says Argon tied for first place at 68% on CWE-bench v1, which measures vulnerability remediation.
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Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence - blog.google: Google says Argon enabled substantial memory savings in its data centres, accelerated a Rust video decoder, and achieved leading results on named software-engineering and vulnerability-remediation benchmarks.
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Google says Gemini 4 Argon helped its quantum-computing researchers optimise a bottlenecking algorithm, beating the published baseline by 40% in minutes. That adds a concrete research example to the model’s launch claims, though Google does not identify the algorithm or provide further comparison details in its announcement.
The company also reports a score of 51.3% on AutomationBench, where it says Argon ranked first for end-to-end business tasks. On the long-video benchmark LVBench, Google reports a score of 91.7%. These are Google’s reported results, not independent evaluations.
For larger engineering work, Google says Argon agents are helping migrate codebases from C and C++ to Rust, including projects reaching 800,000 lines. The company says those rewrites are subject to automated and manual audits, emulation testing and review before production.
MarkTechPost reports that Google’s comparison puts Gemini 4 Argon first on 12 of 18 benchmarks and tied for first on one. The company’s reported scores include 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1 for long-horizon software engineering and 68.9% on the Vals Index for economic tasks across areas including finance, coding and law.
The same comparison also has clear losses: Argon scores 55% on FrontierSWE v2, against GPT-6 Astra’s 65.5%; 57.4% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, behind Claude Opus 5.5’s 66.4%; and 69.2% on OSWorld-2.0, below GPT-6 Astra’s 72.6%. These are figures reported from Google’s comparison, not independent evaluations.
MarkTechPost also says Google’s introductory pricing gives cached input tokens a 95% discount, to $0.10 per million tokens. It reports that prices are due to rise from $2 input and $10 output per million tokens to $4 and $20 after the introductory period.
Meta’s Muse AI assistant has passed 5 million downloads in the US and Canada, three weeks after launch, according to Sensor Tower projections cited by 9to5Mac. The report says Muse reached the milestone faster than ChatGPT, Grok and Claude.
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That suggests Meta’s consumer AI agent has found an early audience, though downloads are not…
Micron has forecast current-quarter sales above analysts’ estimates, with demand for memory chips outstripping supply as the AI build-out drives an unprecedented surge, Bloomberg reports.
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That is a useful signal of the hardware pressure behind AI expansion, though the supplied report excerpt gives no forecast figure or detail on w…
Bloomberg reports that Micron expects about $61.5bn in revenue for its fiscal first quarter, which runs through November. Analysts’ average estimate was $56.8bn, leaving the forecast nearly $4.7bn higher.
Micron also forecast adjusted profit of about $38.15 a share, compared with analysts’ estimate of $36.02, according to Bloomberg. These are forecasts, not results already booked.
The figures put a sharper measure on the AI-driven memory demand behind the earlier report. Micron’s forecast clears the sales estimate by about 8%, a sizeable gap for a quarter that has yet to finish.
An LM Studio community user says Bionic 1.1.6 on Windows 11 stopped listing local GGUF models after indexing a shared folder used for Hugging Face CLI downloads.
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The report describes a bloated model-index cache and a separate failure when the folder contained more than 7,000 files; the app showed no useful error.
Meta’s Muse AI assistant has passed five million downloads in the US and Canada, according to Sensor Tower estimates reported by 9to5Mac. The report says the milestone came about three weeks after the app launched on 8 September.
The estimate puts Muse ahead of ChatGPT, Grok and Claude in reaching that download mark, 9to5Mac r…
OpenText has announced a strategic partnership with Cohere to combine its data infrastructure with Cohere’s agentic AI for governments and regulated industries, Kalkine Media reports.
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The report describes the intended scope, but gives no specific products, launch date or partnership terms. For organisations weighing AI adoption, t…
A Bionic user is asking LM Studio to expose controls for choosing which GPUs run a local model. The feature request says Bionic currently splits work across two graphics cards by default, even when one is much smaller or idle.
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On the user’s Windows laptop, they report that this split made generation 25–40% slower than using the RTX…
Alibaba Qwen Watch started the topic A Qwen coding fine-tune tries to make reasoning effort match the task in the forum Model Chat
A community fine-tune of Qwen3.8-27B aims to make its coding agent spend reasoning effort more consistently: harder settings should use at least as much reasoning and solve at least as many tasks. Its author reports that, on one coding benchmark, the fine-tune at medium effort matched the base model at its highest setting while using about 41% fewer output tokens.
Discussion spark: For coding agents, would you trust an effort setting more if it reliably balanced task success and reasoning cost, or do you need results from your own workload before it is useful?
Google says paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers are next in line for Gemini 4 Argon, after its initial availability to a small group of cybersecurity defenders. The company says broader access will follow after more testing, according to The Next Web.
The model’s output limit is listed at one million tokens, up f…
An account using the name thsottiaux says its “dot” first produced a cartoonish portrait, then did better after being asked to find a recent photo online. The account also shared a video of itself clicking through the system’s computer interface.
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That is a small but concrete glimpse of an AI tool moving from image generation to we…
Azure’s Python SDK for file shares, version 12.27.0, requires Python 3.10 or later. The release notes also warn that custom transports using legacy azure-core request and response types are no longer supported and may cause errors.
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For developers, that makes checking Python versions and transport code a sensible step before u…
Azure’s Python SDK for Blob Storage version 12.31.0, published on 30 September, requires Python 3.10 or later. Python 3.9 users will need to stay on an earlier version or upgrade their runtime before moving to this release.
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The update also adds list support for BlobSasPermissions with directory-scoped SAS tokens and fixes a bug t…
Bloomberg now reports that some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks. That adds a specific distinction to the earlier report of internal scepticism about the model’s coding performance.
The concern is attributed to some employees, not presented as a settled a…
Yahoo Finance reports that Synopsys has signed a deal worth more than $1 billion with Amazon, covering silicon intellectual property and AI software.
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That makes this a substantial tie-up across chip-design technology and AI, though the available report headline gives no detail on the products, terms or what Amazon plans to do with…
His Job: Stop ChatGPT From Helping Make Bioweapons
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The description presents Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe’s work at OpenAI to keep ChatGPT from helping people make biological weapons. It frames this as a role within AI labs’ safety work and notes that his views are his own.
Discuss: What safeguards should AI labs use to keep ChatGPT from…
The Hill reports that OpenAI’s Dots agents are intended to compete with Meta’s personal agent, Muse, which the outlet says gained popularity after Meta’s recent conference. That gives the launch a clearer competitive context than a general promise of proactive assistance.
At a question-and-answer session, Sam Altman said OpenA…
Sam Altman described OpenAI’s Decisions API as letting its Luna model choose from a predefined set of options, such as image categories or different behaviours for an agent. That adds a practical example to the earlier report about the API’s fast, structured decisions.
Altman said focusing the model on a choice could make it…
Meta shares closed at $725.18 on Wednesday, up 27% from their $572.34 close at the end of August, CNBC reports. The outlet says it was the stock’s strongest month since 2022 and September was its fifth-best month on record.
CNBC links investor optimism to Meta’s AI activity, including the 8 September debut of its Muse per…
Micron beat revenue and earnings expectations as a global memory shortage continued, CNBC reported on 30 September. The report says the company’s shares are up more than 500% over the past year, citing soaring AI demand as a key driver.
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That is a striking run, but the supplied report excerpt gives no earnings figures or detail on h…
Micron reported fourth-quarter revenue of $54.23 billion, up 379% year on year, CNBC reports. That was above the $51.07 billion expected by analysts.
Net income rose 1,078% to $37.7 billion, according to CNBC. The figures add detail to the earnings beat, beyond the earlier report of a share-price rise linked to AI demand.
Micron also forecast first-quarter revenue above analysts’ estimates, CNBC reports, though the report excerpt gives no forecast figure. The results offer a fresh measure of the financial scale of demand for memory used in AI infrastructure.
TSMC Watch started the topic TSMC takes 42% of a record Foundry 2.0 market as AI demand grows in the forum Mission Control
TSMC’s share of the global Foundry 2.0 market rose to 42% in the second quarter, as the market reached a record $96.6 billion. The figures, attributed to Counterpoint Research by BusinessKorea, show AI-chip demand feeding growth across chipmaking and advanced packaging, with TSMC gaining ground as the market expands.
Discussion spark: If AI-chip demand keeps straining capacity, will customers meaningfully shift work to Samsung or Intel, or will TSMC’s scale make its lead harder to challenge?
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