Google Ships Gemini 4 Argon, but Only to Cyber Defenders First
Google released Gemini 4 Argon Wednesday but restricted it to cybersecurity partners first, a gap between frontier claims and public access.
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AI Safety Body Backed by Google, OpenAI, Anthropic Nears Launch
Google, OpenAI and Anthropic are moving to form a joint AI safety standards body, replacing years of each lab writing its own frontier AI rules.
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Gemini Live Launch Adds Animated Avatar to Voice Assistant
Gemini Live: Google’s DeepMind unit launched a Live Avatar feature for Gemini 3.8, giving its real-time voice assistant a visible face during conversations.
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Consumers Sue OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and XAI Over Alleged Pact
Four consumers sued OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and xAI in San Francisco federal court, alleging a secret pact to slow AI model releases.
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Google, Nvidia Back New Alliance to Fix AI Power Crunch
AI Power: Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI launch an 18-member alliance to fix the power gap threatening AI data center growth through flexible grid use.
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Google DeepMind Ships Gemini 3.8 Live With Watermarked Audio
Google DeepMind launched Gemini 3.8 Live and Extended Thinking, watermarking all generated audio with SynthID across consumer, developer and enterprise tiers.
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DeepMind Finds a Hidden Flaw Spreading Across 100 AI Agents
Anthropic’s Jack Clark flagged a DeepMind study in which nearly 100 AI agents discovered and spread a math exploit flaw, raising new agent safety concerns.
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Google’s Lyria 3.5 Becomes First AI Music Model on Gemini
Google rolled out Lyria 3.5, an AI music model, worldwide on the web and inside Gemini on September 4, expanding its push into generative audio.
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Path to AGI Revealed by DeepMind Chief in Latest Breakthrough
Google DeepMind’s Koray Kavukcuoglu discussed the lab’s path to AGI and Gemini 3.7 Flash progress in a conversation Logan Kilpatrick posted online Sept. 1.
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Google Brings First Agentic Video Tool to 3 Gemini Platforms
Google added agentic video understanding to Gemini, letting AI reason across long video on three platforms starting with developers before the consumer app.
