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Google rolls out Gemini 4 Argon to trusted cyber defenders through Fairwind and says it is participating in the US government's voluntary prerelease process — Google is unveiling its long-awaited next-generation AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, to a small group of cybersecurity partners, the company said Wednesday.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: some Google employees say Gemini 4 performs well on benchmarks but struggles with some real-world coding tasks; Google disputes that characterization — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has begun rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, its long-awaited flagship artificial intelligence model … | Artificial Analysis: |
More: Artificial Analysis, Engadget, The Rundown AI, and MarkTechPost
| Rafe Rosner-Uddin / Financial Times: |
Asymmetric Security investigation: OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 business, nonprofit, and government agency websites while actively obscuring their actions — New findings by Asymmetric Security provide further evidence of novel tactics AI tools use to conduct hacks.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: EU regulators are questioning Binance over its use of a legal exemption to continue serving customers in the region despite failing to secure a license — Securities regulators looking at use of legal exemption by world's biggest crypto exchange — EU officials are questioning … | New York Times: |
Slack message: Greg Brockman has no plans to donate beyond his initial $25M to Leading the Future, saying the PAC has become a “distraction” at OpenAI — Greg Brockman, OpenAI's president and co-founder, said internally that the super PAC, Leading the Future, had become a “distraction” for the A.I. company.
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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign in July that peaked at 16K requests — OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Jensen Huang and others asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei replied it's important to be honest — Nvidia's CEO was among the execs at White House event who called out the Anthropic leader for warning about the technology's capabilities| Ashley Gold / Semafor: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Docs and sources: Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, including potential cognitive and emotional harm, as the company pushed AI into schools — The risks of cognitive and emotional dependence, along with falling test scores, are fueling a backlash| CNBC: |
Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, above $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% to $37.7B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above est.; MU is up 273%+ YTD — Micron reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Wednesday as the memory maker continues to benefit from soaring demand for AI infrastructure.
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| Simon Sharwood / The Register: |
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| Zachary Small / New York Times: |
A profile of Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, who insists that “Xbox is not for sale” despite mass layoffs and divested studios since inheriting the flailing division — Asha Sharma didn't have any experience in video games when she became the chief executive of Xbox this year.
More: The Verge, HotHardware, Dexerto, GamingBolt, Gameranx, Kotaku, Windows Central, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Gamereactor, Aftermath, Neowin, and Insider Gaming
| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Salesforce agrees to buy AI customer research startup Listen Labs, reportedly for $2B; Listen Labs had raised a $69M Series B at a $500M valuation in January — The customer research space is especially ripe for AI disruption, as companies look to replace older, manual methods to more quickly find out what customers think.
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| Rya Jetha / Business Insider: |
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg says he terminated Chris Degnan, alleging Degnan confided with Cognition execs while advising Factory before joining Cognition as CRO — - Startup Factory AI says a former advisor held meetings with rival Cognition while advising the company.
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| Claude: |
Anthropic says Claude for Government is now generally available to federal and state agencies, with Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 in early access — Claude Code CLI and Claude for Microsoft 365 also now available in early access. — Product announcements — Product
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| Luke Fountain / CNBC: |
The DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and ex-House Speaker Newt Gingrich for Project Meridian, a 120-day study of capabilities the US may need in future wars — The Pentagon is tapping Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, defense technology entrepreneur and Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey …
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| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
Sources: Tencent signed a ~$7B, five-year deal with Oracle this year for access to ~100K advanced AI chips unavailable in China via Southeast Asian data centers — WeChat owner strikes deal to access US group's south-east Asia data centres amid race with ByteDance and Alibaba
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| Cameron Faulkner / The Verge: |
Amazon updates the Kindle, Kindle Paperwhite, and Colorsoft with new colors and up to 32GB of storage, and unveils the $35 Kindle Click page-turning remote — A wave of little changes, including new colors, the option of an aluminum case, and some neat accessories.
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| Gabi Marques / Colossus: |
A profile of Nubank founder David Vélez, who graduated from Stanford, worked at Sequoia, and moved to Brazil to start the bank in 2013, as Nubank enters the US — After facing down regulators, oligopolies, and corruption in Latin America, Nubank founder David Vélez faces his biggest challenge yet: the United States| Reuters: |
IPO prospectus: Broadcom agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42B via convertible notes that could help finance Anthropic's $125.2B, five-year TPU lease commitment — Anthropic's IPO prospectus documents extensive partnerships with a handful of big tech firms. One stands out: chip maker Broadcom (AVGO.O).
More: Bloomberg Law, Quartz, and Pulse 2.0
| Adrian Diaconescu / PhoneArena: |
Samsung quietly raises US prices for most of its Galaxy S26 lineup by $100 and the 1TB Galaxy S26 Ultra by $200; the Galaxy Z Fold 8 and Z Flip 8 are unchanged — In line with recent rumors and expectations, the ultra-high-end Galaxy S26 trio has become more expensive than ever before in the US.
More: The Verge, Tech Advisor, and SammyGuru
| Ben Weiss / Bloomberg: |
Open Standard launches its OUSD stablecoin; founding partners Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Coinbase will offer initial access to businesses and developers — Open Standard, a company backed by more than 100 corporations, including Visa Inc., Stripe Inc., and Mastercard Inc. …
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| Brooks Barnes / New York Times: |
Google partners with talent agency Range Media to launch 100 Zeros, a rotating fund designed to shape positive onscreen depictions of tech and test AI tools — Jonathan Zepp, left, Google's head of entertainment content and platforms, and Peter Micelli, chief executive of Range Media Partners … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Micron filed a US lawsuit accusing Chinese memory maker YMTC of systematically poaching key engineers and then using the engineers' patents to sue Micron — Some of YMTC's patents can actually belong to Micron, the company alleges. … Micron this month filed a lawsuit …
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| Anzar Mehraj / Reuters: |
Armadin, started by Mandiant founder Kevin Mandia to build AI cybersecurity agents, raised a $255.5M Series B led by a16z and Accel at a $2.5B valuation — Armadin said on Thursday that it raised $255.5 million in a Series B funding round, which values the AI cybersecurity company at more than $2.5 billion.
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