The week in AI: Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligencePartial week
Top 5 of 37 stories · 3 daily editions
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Apple says it will tighten macOS Full Disk Access so apps can gain that privilege only through very explicit user action, citing risks from increasingly capable AI agents. The move follows reports that Meta's Muse AI surfaced Messages content users thought was off-limits.
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Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model aimed at real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work and cyber defense. It is not broadly available yet: select testers get access first, with the API and paid tiers to follow.
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Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier model aimed at real-world coding, enterprise knowledge work and cyber defense. It is not broadly available yet: select testers get access first, with the API and paid tiers to follow.
Also: Meta dodges billions in US taxes by calling its AI data centers experiments · ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you · How NVIDIA GPUs Help Accelerate OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast