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Google (with Google DeepMind) builds the Gemini family of AI models.
Gemini 4 Argon undercuts rivals on price, but only until 1 December
Google has opened its top model to paying users and developers worldwide at introductory API rates that double in under two months.
Gemini 4 Argon launches at $2 per million input tokens
Google DeepMind prices its first new frontier model since Gemini 3 aggressively for now, and doubles the rate once the introductory period ends.
White House AI accord sets rules with no enforcement teeth
Anthropic, OpenAI and rivals sign a voluntary super intelligence pact that carries no penalties and no disclosure duty.
Google and xAI win the federal front door with America.gov
A White House executive order hands Gemini and Grok the job of routing 100 million Americans to government services, with completion tools promised for 2027.
Google plays catch-up as Gemini 4 enters testing after rivals' double launch
DeepMind's new chief is signalling urgency on Gemini 4 after Anthropic and OpenAI both shipped flagship models on the same day.
Altman and Amodei want AI rules. They shipped rival models 90 minutes apart the day before.
Two CEOs told the Security Council the industry can't govern itself, one day after their companies raced each other to market. Read the guest list for who these rules would actually bind.
Antitrust suit tests whether AI labs can jointly agree to slow down
Four subscribers accuse Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and SpaceXAI of colluding on a "pace the frontier" pact that denied them product improvements.
Google sat on this for seven weeks. It only talked because a reporter called
Three companies got hacked by Google's AI in May. Google knew by July. The public found out in September because The Wall Street Journal rang first — and 'not misalignment' is doing a lot of quiet work in the statement.
Gemini 3.8 Live grabs the voice-agent crown from OpenAI and xAI
Google's new speech-to-speech models reason mid-call and undercut rivals on latency, setting a new price-performance bar for voice agents.
When your GPU supplier calls it frothiness, believe him
Four frontier releases in seven days. The criticism is coming from people who profit from every one of them — which is the only reason to take it seriously.
Google gates its sharpest cyber model, joins Anthropic and OpenAI playbook
Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber only reaches vetted defenders through Google's new Fairwind Program, mirroring a pattern rivals set first.
Google cedes control of A2A, handing rivals a shared agent standard
The Agent2Agent protocol now sits inside the same neutral foundation as Anthropic's MCP, removing a reason for enterprises to bet on one vendor's agents.
Hassabis pitches an IAEA for AI as he steps back from DeepMind's top job
Weeks before giving up DeepMind's CEO role, Demis Hassabis lobbied Trump officials for an independent body to police frontier AI safety.
Grok 4.6 on Wednesday. Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday. Nobody shipped a flagship.
Google's third Flash model in six weeks lands one day after xAI's Grok 4.6, while the actual Gemini 3.5 Pro sits on a fourth missed deadline. Read the calendar, not the press release.
Jeff Dean quits Google after 27 years to chase automated science
Discovery Loop pulls four of Google's most senior AI architects into a new venture Google itself is funding.
Google strips Hassabis of CEO role as Gemini leadership empties out
Alphabet shares fell more than 5% after Koray Kavukcuoglu took charge of Gemini on the same day four senior researchers quit to start a rival.
The AI Act is live, and nobody knows who checks first
Transparency rules and 3%-of-turnover fines took effect on 2 August. Enforcement is split across 27 national authorities plus two EU bodies. Good luck planning against that.
Google bets Gemini becomes the default brains for humanoid robots
DeepMind's new model family lets one checkpoint drive different robot bodies, aiming to undercut hardware-makers who are building their own AI in-house.
An 80% cut three weeks after launch isn't generosity. It's a floor being set by DeepSeek
OpenAI says efficiency. The calendar says Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.6 Flash and a Chinese model at fourteen cents.
Google Cloud's 82% surge funds an $811 billion AI spending bet
Alphabet's backlog swells to $514 billion as Gemini's reach and capital commitments both jump.
Google's silicon bet could cut Gemini serving costs six-fold by 2028
A chip reportedly baking Gemini's architecture into silicon aims to ease Google's compute crunch and undercut OpenAI and Anthropic on price.
Google Is Selling Gemini 3.5's Delay as Freedom. Read the Fine Print.
Google's frontier model slipped for months and got rebuilt from scratch. Now the spin says it ships with no government restrictions. The real reason is less flattering.
The White House's 'voluntary' AI rules come with a 90-minute stick
Voluntary is doing a lot of work in a sentence where the last non-compliant model went dark in 90 minutes.
Google said Gemini 3.5 Pro was 'next month'. The month's over.
Flash shipped. Pro got a date-shaped promise. Guess which one you can actually use.
Apple's big AI reveal quietly runs on Google's Gemini
The privacy company's flagship AI is, at its core, a rented model. That's the actual story.
AI did real maths — here's what that does and doesn't mean
Genuinely impressive. Also genuinely narrow. Both at once.
AI 'solved' famous maths problems. Read the asterisks.
The results are real. So are the caveats nobody screenshots.
Google announced a flagship it couldn't ship — and called the cheap one the win
Gemini 3.5 Flash is out. Gemini 3.5 Pro is a 'next month'. Notice which one got the keynote.