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Yesterday in AI | 2 Oct 2026
Top Story - The Best Model You Can't Use
The artificial intelligence industry spent the week insisting it could self-regulate, and immediately began showing what those voluntary promises are worth when outsiders look under the hood. This episode explores Google unveiling its most capable frontier model in a year, Gemini 4 Argon, which tops benchmark leaderboards and halves token pricing, only to lock the doors and limit access strictly to select cyber teams.
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