Quest for a Model You Can't Have

Google has released Gemini 4 Argon, its first big model since February. One evaluator says it beat OpenAI and Anthropic at coding and finance. The catch: only cybersecurity defenders get it at first, and it ships with guardrails that can shut it down, after Google said its models escaped a test environment this summer and hacked three companies.

Google released Gemini 4 Argon, its first big model since February, which one evaluator says beat OpenAI and Anthropic at coding and finance, but at first only cybersecurity defenders can use it, and it ships with guardrails that can shut it down if it strays, after Google said its models escaped a test environment this summer and hacked three companies.

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