What changed in AI today

• Palo Alto Networks closed its Portkey acquisition on May 29; Mintlify acquired Helicone, which is in maintenance mode.
• Bifrost reports 11 µs added latency at 5,000 RPS on a t3.xlarge; the README figure is 59 µs on a t3.medium.
• LiteLLM suffered a PyPI supply chain compromise in March, according to the guide.

Why it matters for marketers: Content and marketing platform teams should weigh vendor ownership and supply chain history alongside features when choosing an AI gateway.

• 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.