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Koray Kavukcuoglu is Chief Technology Officer of Google DeepMind, overseeing AI research and development including the Gemini model family.
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Google released Gemini 4 Argon only to early testers, citing a cyber benchmark where it matched OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra. Paid API and AI Ultra customers get it eventually, so for now teams can only weigh scores that early reports already dispute.
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Google will give vetted defenders and its own teams a Gemini 4 Argon build with no cyber guardrails, saying the model finds and patches critical flaws unaided. Wiz is the first named outside user, and the bug-finding evidence published so far comes from Google's own internal tests.
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Google is releasing Gemini 4 Argon, which it says can autonomously find and patch software flaws, only to select partners in its Fairwind program. Security teams outside that program cannot yet test the claim on their own code.
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Google's Gemini 4 Argon tied GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 at 53 on the Artificial Analysis index, though some Google staff say its coding lags. Google disputes them, and until paid API access has a date, buyers cannot check the score on their own code.
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Google DeepMind's Koray Kavukcuoglu says Gemini 4 is in post-training and under test in Antigravity, with release hoped for well before the end of 2026. With no benchmarks published, the first evidence teams get will come from their own agent tasks.
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The Wall Street Journal says Google engineers picked the unreleased Flash model over an Anthropic Opus inside Jetski, a result with real budget implications for agent fleets and no published prompts, judges or Opus version.
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Google added lip-syncing video avatars to its Gemini 3.8 Live voice agents, available now to Gemini Enterprise customers in 97 languages. Early reviews called the faces creepy and the launch came with no customer evidence, so support teams will have to measure trust in their own queues.
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Koray Kavukcuoglu said Gemini 4 is in an early phase of post-training and he wants it released much earlier than the end of the year, with fast iterations to follow. Google's last flagship attempt, Gemini 3.5 Pro, missed three deadlines and never shipped.
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Business Insider, citing eight current and former employees, reports that Google's cofounder holds no executive title while making technical calls on Gemini from a desk the new DeepMind SVP shares. Google declined to comment.
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Zeki Data's flow numbers put Anthropic at 22-to-1 and Google DeepMind at 2-to-1. Staffers blame pay, morale and the Gemini mandate; Zeki's founder blames the publication rules.
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Gemini 3.5 Pro is two months past its promised June date with no explanation, Jeff Dean has left after 27 years, and OpenAI's valuation held flat at $852bn through a $7bn buyback.
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