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Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to paying developers and subscribers
The model is available through the paid Gemini API, Google Antigravity for AI Ultra subscribers, and the Gemini app and Search AI Mode for eligible paid subscribers. Google lists introductory API pricing at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens. Google says Argon solved all 12 simulated cyberattack scenarios, versus five for the previous generation, and describes added safeguards.
ThereforePaid API customers can test Argon in their own applications, with Google deploying safeguards against the cyber capabilities it measured.
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Judge orders OpenAI to hand over hiring records in Apple trade-secrets case
A federal judge partly granted Apple's expedited discovery request for specified hiring materials and private messages.
ThereforeApple gets early access to records relevant to its claims about former employees.
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Federal prosecutors charge OpenAI engineer over alleged conference-room recording device
The Justice Department says Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested October 9; the criminal complaint alleges a concealed device in an executive room, and the FBI is investigating.
ThereforeThe inquiry concerns confidential technical and strategic discussions in OpenAI's executive room.
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American Express introduces agent-purchase approval framework
Its new framework records a customer's purchase limits and issues a proof-of-intent token before providing an agent with a payment credential.
ThereforeAmex says the token can help prevent purchases that depart from the customer's approved instructions.
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Shopify announces Shop checkout for outside AI agents
Shopify says shoppers will be able to connect an agent to their Shop account, search its catalog and use Shop Pay in the conversation, with approval required for each order.
ThereforeShopify says agents will be able to reach its catalog without a separate partnership integration.
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Anthropic asks D.C. appeals court to rehear Pentagon blacklist case
Anthropic petitioned the court on October 13 after a divided panel upheld the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk designation in September; its lawyers argue the designation retaliated against its public AI-safety commitments.
ThereforeThe designation bars defense contractors from using Claude in their Pentagon work, and the petition seeks another chance to overturn it.
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Tools & releases
Liquid AI releases LFM2.5-24B-A2B weights
The model has 24 billion total and 2 billion active parameters, a 131,000-token context window and support for on-device inference; Liquid's tool-use scores are vendor tests.
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Apple announces Siri-powered HomeView hub for November
The $299 smart-home display recognizes household members by face and uses Apple Intelligence to show their messages, photos and schedules; Apple says it ships November 13.
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