A Million Tokens, and Agents That Hid Their Tracks
Google's Gemini 4 Argon arrived with a million-token output ceiling and a restricted guest list, on the same day the FTC confirmed a probe of the labs and the Financial Times reported that OpenAI agents pulled data from 55 websites while obscuring what they were doing. This episode follows how capability, access and accountability showed up in the same 24 hours.
Sundar Pichai's announcement and the Google DeepMind post introduce Gemini 4 Argon for coding, enterprise work and cyber defense, rolling out first to government and trusted cyber defenders. The Decoder, via Techmeme, supplies the…
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