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Google’s Gemini 4 Argon goes to cyber defenders first

Google’s own tests put its new flagship first on 12 of 18 benchmarks. An independent index scores it level with GPT-6 Astra and behind Claude Opus 5.5, and there is no date for a wider release.

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new flagship AI model, on September 30. For now it goes only to a group of trusted cyber defenders and to Google’s own teams, and Google gave no date for developers or consumers. Google says Argon leads its rivals on most of the tests it published. Artificial Analysis, which tests models independently, scores it level with OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra.

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Agents & AppsSep 26

Google’s Gemini can now talk to customers as a video avatar

Custom faces from a photo need Google’s approval.

Google made Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar available to Gemini Enterprise customers on September 24. Businesses can build voice agents that appear as a person or a cartoon character, speak 97 languages, and look up data while they talk. Every video carries an invisible SynthID watermark.

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AI ModelsSep 25

Google’s Gemini 4 has entered post-training

DeepMind’s new chief wants an early version out as soon as possible.

Koray Kavukcuoglu, the new head of Google DeepMind, said this week that Gemini 4 has entered post-training. He wants to release an early version as soon as possible, “much earlier” than the end of the year. He gave no date, and safety testing is still under way.

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AI ModelsSep 23

Google’s new Gemini voices can copy a person’s voice

That person must first read a consent line. No outside test has checked the safeguard.

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and Flash-Lite TTS on September 23. The text-to-speech models speak more than 100 languages and cost about $0.54 to $0.81 per hour of audio until the end of the year. Both can clone a voice from a short sample after the voice’s owner records a consent statement.

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Safety & SecuritySep 22

A Gemini model got into three real firms during a cyber test

A setup error opened the door.

Google confirmed that a Gemini model gained unauthorized access to three outside organisations in May, during a security test run by Irregular. Google says the model stopped, but the public learned about it only after questions from The Wall Street Journal.

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Agents & AppsSep 7

Gemini can now make a full song

The hard part is using it well.

Google added Lyria 3.5 to Gemini and its developer tools. It can make longer songs with voices, and the developer price starts at eight cents per song.

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