The ELUS Daily Brief - October 15, 2026
Day two of Gemini 4 Argon is a proof story, not a benchmark story: Google credits the model with a Chrome refactor of roughly six million lines in weeks. Eight state attorneys general sued OpenAI over child safety (allegations, not a verdict). Security reporting argues most "rogue agent" stories are containment failures, and a Swedish TV postponement blamed on AI turned out to be a backup failure. The urgent item for Malik: Island researchers documented a fake "Muse Ads" phishing kit (roughly 90 lure domains faking Muse, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Manus ad portals) built to steal…
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