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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet

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Google parent company Alphabet has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model built to handle a variety of tasks such as coding, research, and writing. But it’s cybersecurity that Gemini 4 Argon is supposed to have a particular knack for, according to Google. Argon is only being rolled out to a select group of the company’s cyber partners through its Fairwind Program, Google’s security initiative. The model was trained specifically for defensive cyber work, and the company says it can “autonomously find, validate, and patch critical software vulnerabilities.” Argon…

TechCrunch AI · 1 Oct 2026 · 01:43 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon AI model, but you can't use it yet

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Google promised Gemini 3.5 Pro back in June, but it spent the summer trotting out smaller Flash models. Now, Google is ready to take on the frontier again with Gemini 4 Argon. The company claims this new AI offers industry-leading performance in coding, knowledge work, and cybersecurity, but you aren't allowed to use it yet. While most of us will have to wait to put Gemini 4 to the test, Google says engineers inside the company are already making extensive use of the new model. Argon reportedly used "fleet-wide telemetry…

Ars Technica AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 22:11 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots

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Amid a number of updates for moderators and developers announced Wednesday, comes bad news for supporters of a more open web: Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds. Reddit says RSS has now become a “common surface for large-scale scraping and automated abuse,” which is why it’s made the decision to wind down RSS feeds on its platform. “We know RSS has been a beloved part of the open web for a long time, and we’re grateful to everyone who used it to stay connected to Reddit,” the company noted…

TechCrunch AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 19:45 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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MIT Transit Lab to develop an AI platform for public transit agencies

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Google.org announced on Sept. 15 that the MIT Transit Lab is a recipient of $2.1 million in funding — one of only 15 projects selected in the worldwide Google.org Impact Challenge: AI for Government Innovation. The funding from Google’s philanthropic arm will support NGOs, social enterprises, and academic institutions as they integrate artificial intelligence-powered solutions across topics like health, resilience, and economy. The Transit Lab’s winning project, the Public Transit Intelligence Hub (PTIQ), aims to unify public transportation agencies’ real-time monitoring, operations control, and passenger communication systems into a single…

MIT AI NEWS · 30 Sep 2026 · 17:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Ollama for Managing Local Language Models: A KDnuggets Cheat Sheet

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Ollama pulls model weights, keeps an HTTP server on port 11434, and hands any client an OpenAI-shaped endpoint pointed at your own machine. Learn how to manage, configure, and optimize using Ollama right here.

KDnuggets · 30 Sep 2026 · 14:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Amazon Bedrock expands Claude model availability to in-country inferencing in India

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We’re excited to announce the availability of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, and Claude Haiku 4.5 in India. The India regional endpoint is served through geographic cross-Region inference. Customers in India can now access these models on Amazon Bedrock while processing the data in the India Regions in addition to the already supported global cross-Region inference. This can be useful when customers need to meet the requirements to process data locally in a desired geography. In this post, we discuss how India geographic cross-Region inference works from the…

AWS AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 03:13 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Introducing Anthropic models on Amazon Bedrock for in-region inference in Seoul and Singapore

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Amazon Bedrock now supports the Anthropic Claude models: Claude Opus 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 in Seoul and Claude Sonnet 5 in Singapore with in-region inference on the bedrock-runtime endpoint. If you have local data processing requirements in South Korea or Singapore, for example, in financial services, healthcare, and the public sector, you can now use these Anthropic models at scale. Amazon Bedrock processes inference requests and data within the Region you call. The processing does not leave the Region. In this post, we walk through how in-region inference works…

AWS AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 03:13 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

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The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. The OpenAI CEO said he didn’t want ‘additional pressure’ from Wall Street. For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won’t happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. “We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward in capability, and we see more of that ahead of us, we have got to be…

The Verge AI · 30 Sep 2026 · 02:26 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Instagram is adding an AI ‘assistant’ to tell you how to post

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Instagram is the latest social media platform to add built-in AI-powered features that will give users feedback on their posts. The company announced Wednesday that its standalone Edits app will now include an AI “creative assistant” that pulls in data from a user’s Instagram account and offers suggestions on what to change. Using the new assistant, creators can ask open-ended questions about what’s trending on Instagram, why one video worked and another didn’t, or what piece of content resonated most with their audience. The tool pulls in data and metrics…

The Verge AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 23:14 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model

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The focus of OpenAI’s Dev Day on Tuesday may have been on its agentic assistants known as Dots, or its new AI models, but combined, the AI company’s announcements pointed towards a bigger plan: a disruption of the traditional app store model. Taken together, today’s announcements turn ChatGPT itself into the place where software can be discovered, launched, and used by people and agents alike. In addition, OpenAI introduced a way for people to bring their ChatGPT identity with them, while also allowing them to use their existing AI allowance…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 22:15 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Building an AI-powered contract intelligence platform with Amazon Quick and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

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You’re a director of contracting, responsible for hundreds, maybe thousands, of vendor contracts. Each one is packed with critical data: contract values, expiration dates, signing status, and key contacts. With that information locked inside PDFs, you and your team spend hours manually extracting it, maintaining spreadsheets, and fielding the same recurring questions: “Which vendor are we spending the most with?” or “Which contracts are about to expire?” So you turn to AI chat tools and enterprise Q&A solutions. You upload a contract, ask questions in natural language, and for a…

AWS AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 18:14 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Instinct founder said more than 50% of transactions on the platform are travel-related

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Almost every AI tool’s demo shows a user sparring with the assistant to book travel, as it seems to be the most frequent use case. The viral Instinct agent is no different, as it sees more than 50% of transactions on the platform for travel, the company’s founder, Noah Shinn, said in a recent podcast. In an interview with investor Patrick O’Shaughnessy, Shinn also mentioned that the invite-only platform is approaching a billion dollars in annual transactions. He didn’t specify what the calculation behind this rate is, though. “People who…

TechCrunch AI · 29 Sep 2026 · 17:12 CESTRead story →Original ↗