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Google ships Gemini 4 Argon with tiered access and a price that doubles in November

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  1. ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read and act on your open tabsWith the extension installed, ChatGPT can view open tabs when users tag Chrome in its web or desktop app.via The Verge
  2. Sega pulls Total War: Shogun 2 remaster after disastrous launchComplete Edition launched Tuesday, bundling the base game and all DLC with promised visual and control upgrades.via The Verge
  3. ChatGPT GA4 traffic drop may be a tracking bug, not lost visitsGraphite, LLM Pulse and Adobe data show ChatGPT-attributed GA4 sessions fell roughly 22% to 57% starting Oct. 9.via Search Engine Journal
  4. Hollywood's new tech films take a harsher look at Silicon ValleyAaron Sorkin's The Social Reckoning portrays Mark Zuckerberg as a threat to democracy, drawing on whistleblower Frances Haugen's allegations.via The Verge
  5. Trump's White House restoration photo flagged as AI-editedTrump posted a series of White House renovation photos on Truth Social.via The Verge
  6. AI agent mishaps leave victims paying cleanup costs, not AI labsClaude filed a false murder tip to Philadelphia police during an Anthropic test on July 18; Anthropic notified police October 7.via Wired
  7. Granite Switch 4.1 combines chat, decisions and speech in one endpointGranite-Switch-4.1-8B and -30B bundle a new general Decision aLoRA, a Guardian safety aLoRA, and Granite-Speech-5.0-Turbo-CTC for transcription.via Hugging Face
  8. Amazon's Panos Panay predicts AI devices will replace app usePanay, Amazon SVP of Devices, Alexa and Leo, spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt on Thursday about ambient computing.via TechCrunch
  9. Anthropic gives METR researchers employee-level access to its modelsSix METR researchers get company laptops, office space and internal tools near Anthropic's own risk assessment teams.via TechCrunch and 1 more
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Nvidia opens up Super VL, a model for always-on enterprise agents

Key points
  • Super VL has 120 billion parameters, with 12 billion active per token, and handles text, images, documents and video.
  • Nvidia claims it matches its largest model's accuracy at about one-fifth the parameters and scores 80.8% on CharXiv.
  • Weights, datasets and training recipes are on Hugging Face; the 4GB Bolt E4B model has not shipped yet.
  • Nvidia says every variant is optimized for its own hardware, so getting the most from Nemotron points toward its chips.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams gain a self-hosted option for chart and document work without a separate vision model, though the performance figures are Nvidia's own claims.

via The Decoder and MarkTechPostOur briefModelsAgents & automation

CopilotKit releases CLiF, a continual learning platform for AI agents

Key points
  • CopilotKit released CLiF, which turns agent traces and user actions into skills, evals, and fine-tuning data.
  • Teams often write hundreds or thousands of evals by hand for the workflows that matter most.
  • The source says agents built on models such as Fable and Astra still struggle with complex, end-to-end tasks inside a product.

Why it matters for marketers: Content and AI teams could generate evals and fine-tuning data from real agent usage instead of writing them by hand, though the source gives no pricing or availability.

This week

LFM2.5-24B-A2B: open-weight reasoning agent model for on-device use

Key points
  • 24B total parameters with 2B active per token, built as a reasoning model that thinks before answering.
  • Scores 48.09 on LiveClaw versus 38.19 for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B, a model with roughly 50% more parameters.
  • Decodes 184 tokens/s on an Apple M5 Max and 114 tokens/s on a Ryzen AI Max+ 395, per the source.
  • Open-weight and available on Hugging Face now; supports llama.cpp, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and ONNX from day one.

Why it matters for marketers: Content teams building tool-using assistants can run a local agent model, but should pair it with retrieval or search for knowledge-heavy tasks.

via Hugging Face and MarkTechPostModelsAgents & automation

Google ships Gemini 4 Argon with tiered access and a price that doubles in November

Key points
  • Available now via the API in AI Studio and Gemini platform, plus Google AI Ultra and Pro subscriber access in the Gemini app.
  • Introductory pricing is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input 95% off.
  • Google says Argon ranks #1 on the Vals Index, which measures performance across finance, coding, legal and tax work.
  • Google reports Argon helped its own teams raise agentic code submissions by more than 35% in Antigravity.

Why it matters for marketers: Content and marketing teams using Gemini tools get a model Google positions for multi-step professional work, at a stated introductory price, though the Vals ranking is Google's own report.

via Google DeepMind and 7 moreOur briefModelsPolicy & safety