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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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Google adds AI-powered scam protection to Android and Google Messages

Key points
  • Opt-in enhanced protection in Google Messages uses cloud-based Gemini models to assess unrecognized senders' intentions, rolling out in coming weeks.
  • Gemini Nano on-device checks real-time web signals in unfamiliar URLs to flag malicious links before they open.
  • Android will block apps from enabling call forwarding, alert users when an attempt is made, and hide sensitive info during screen-sharing in Chrome.
  • Chat scam detection expands beyond Pixel to Honor, Motorola, Oppo, OnePlus, Xiaomi and others, reaching hundreds of millions more users this year.

Why it matters for marketers: Marketers sending messages to Android users may face more filtering of unrecognized senders, so sender identity and link trust matter more.

via Google DeepMind and The VergeTools & productsPolicy & safety

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

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EmbeddingGemma 2 adds on-device multimodal embeddings for text, images, audio and video

Key points
  • Open model under Apache 2.0 license, 740 million parameters, built on the Gemma 4 architecture
  • Code benchmark score rises from 68.76 to 78.68 on MTEB Code, per Google's reported results
  • Context window of 8K tokens, up from 4x smaller in the first EmbeddingGemma
  • Weights available on Hugging Face and Kaggle; Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform availability is coming soon

Why it matters for marketers: Content and app teams can build offline search over media libraries and video or audio clips without sending data to the cloud.

via Google DeepMindOpen source