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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 pre-release 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 …
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| Artificial Analysis: |
Artificial Analysis says Gemini 4 Argon (high) matches GPT-6 Astra (max) on its Intelligence Index and has a 15% hallucination rate, compared with 51% for Astra — Google's new Gemini 4 Argon equals GPT-6 Astra on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index at 60% of the Cost per Task with discounted prices
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| New York Post: |
Sources: the US FTC has opened a probe of Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs over potential consumer harms, and plans to compel executives to testify — WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission is ramping up a sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other frontier labs to uncover …
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| Ashley Gold / Semafor: |
Sources: Trump's AI accord grew out of a talk between Zuckerberg and House Speaker Mike Johnson; Zuckerberg circulated a draft, and Huang helped build support — THE SCOOP — The idea for what became President Donald Trump's Tuesday pact with the AI industry came from a conversation …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Jensen Huang and other execs asked Dario Amodei at the White House why he was so extreme in public on AI risks; Amodei said 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| Maggie Eastland / Bloomberg: |
OpenAI says individuals associated with Moonshot AI played a significant role in a coordinated model-distillation campaign that began in early July — OpenAI accused its Chinese rival Moonshot AI of being responsible for a wide-scale effort to extract data from its GPT artificial intelligence systems …
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| CNBC: |
Micron reports Q4 revenue up 379% YoY to $54.23B, vs. $51.07B est., net income up 1,078% to $37.7B, and forecasts Q1 revenue above estimates — Micron reported better-than-expected quarterly results on Wednesday as the memory maker continues to benefit from soaring demand for AI infrastructure.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| 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| 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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| Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg: |
Document: SpaceXAI plans a unified subscription for Grok and X with four tiers, including a $100/month Ultra plan, an $8/month Lite plan, and a free offering — SpaceXAI, the artificial intelligence unit of Elon Musk's SpaceX, is considering an overhaul of its subscription pricing options …
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| Luke Fountain / CNBC: |
DOD taps Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and former 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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| Elias Schisgall / Wall Street Journal: |
Grindr agrees to acquire PurposeMed, owner of HIV-prevention telehealth provider Freddie, for $250M, its first major acquisition as it expands into a gay hub — Gay dating-app's first major acquisition reflects a broader expansion into the healthcare business
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| Will Wade / Bloomberg: |
Amazon signs a 20-year deal to buy power from Constellation Energy, including boosting capacity at its Maryland nuclear plant, supporting $3B+ in investments — Amazon.com Inc. has agreed to purchase 690 megawatts of power from Constellation Energy Corp. in a deal that will help …
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| Financial Times: |
SemiAnalysis estimates ~90% of Anthropic's business comes from agentic AI, while sources say nearly 25% of its revenue in 2025 came from just two clients — Powerful AI tools burn through budgets, prompting a rethink of how the technology is priced ahead of frontier lab IPOs.
| Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Flow, a hardware development platform for AI agents, raised a $50M Series B led by Valor's Antonio Gracias and Atreides' Gavin Baker at a $750M valuation — Flow Engineering, a startup that offers AI tools for hardware design, has raised a $50 million Series B round at a $750 million valuation … | Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
A profile of Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora, who has overseen revenue growth from $2.27B in FY2018 to $11.48B in FY2026 as AI reshapes cybersecurity — Nikesh Arora is the guy CEOs of Fortune 500 and tech companies call when AI gets scary. — In April, Nikesh Arora applied a simple … | 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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| Financial Times: |
Analysis: Google, Apple, and Amazon each have more meetings with European parliament and European Commission officials than any individual European company — US corporations including Google, Apple and Amazon use their influence to push back against EU digital bloc rules.| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos says growth is slower than he'd like and defends the WBD pursuit, adding Netflix isn't seeking another acquisition to replace it — Ted Sarandos, co-chief executive officer at Netflix Inc., said the US streaming giant isn't growing as quickly as he would like.| Paxton Honerkamp / CNBC: |
California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Robo Bosses Act, which prevents employers in the state from relying solely on AI to fire or discipline workers — California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed a landmark AI law banning Golden State employers from relying solely on artificial intelligence to fire or discipline workers.| Jyoti Mann / The Information: |
Internal data: Meta's Muse now has 3M+ users who submit at least one prompt per week and 1M+ DAUs who have sent at least one prompt — Meta Platforms' Muse now has more than 3 million users who give the AI agent at least one prompt a week, according to internal data reviewed by The Information …
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