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Google opens Gemini 4 Argon to developers, enterprises and consumers

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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon to cyber partners, with wider access still ahead

Gemini 4 Argon starts with trusted cyber defenders. Google's benchmark table shows mixed coding results, while its $2 input and $10 output pricing rewards shorter runs.

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OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence at one-fifth of the price

GPT-6.1 Sol costs $2 per million input tokens and $0.10 for cached input. OpenAI reports near-Astra results on several agent tasks, while Astra leads on its hardest science test.

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Gemini 4 is in refinement, but Google has not set a launch date

Google DeepMind's new chief says Gemini 4 is in refinement and may arrive well before year-end. Buyers still lack a launch date, model details, and access terms.

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GPT-6 Sol and Luna make the cheap-model choice more consequential

OpenAI's new Sol and Luna models cost half as much as their GPT-5.6 counterparts. The useful comparison is the cost of completed work at acceptable quality.

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Anthropic splits Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1 by safeguard regime

Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5.1 for general use and Mythos 5.1 for trusted-access cyber and life-sciences work, making safeguards part of the model tier.

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Kimi API sunset turns K3 migration into an August deadline

Kimi's model documentation now warns that K2.5 and moonshot-v1 are closed to new users and that the older platform sunsets on August 31.

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Alibaba releases Qwen3.8-Max with QwenCloud access and open weights next week

Qwen3.8-Max puts Alibaba back into the frontier-model fight with a large coding-focused model available through QwenCloud now and open weights promised next week.

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A compact security model routes vulnerability tasks through multiple agent lanes toward a protected codebase

Microsoft routes vulnerability agents through MAI-Cyber-1-Flash

Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH, saying the compact security model handles most vulnerability tasks while larger models handle harder cases.

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DeepSeek ships V4-Flash public beta with Responses API support

DeepSeek moved V4-Flash into public beta with native Responses API support, Codex configuration docs, and a new leaderboard entry for V4-Flash-0731.

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