Google priced Gemini 4 Argon as OpenAI named Moonshot in public
A new flagship from Google, one lab pointing at another across the Pacific, and Sacramento's last day of bill signing.
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon at $2 and $10 per million tokens The price is introductory and doubles to $4 and $20 later. Google is giving cyber defenders first access, with paid API customers and AI Ultra subscribers next “as soon as possible”, and it can write a million tokens in one answer. Source
OpenAI says Moonshot-linked users sent 16,000 requests to extract its reasoning They copied a model’s encrypted hidden reasoning into a fresh conversation and asked it to decrypt it, from more than 4,000 accounts over two days in July. OpenAI says the encryption was not broken, and attributes a core cluster to people associated with Moonshot, Kimi’s developer. Source
California banned AI-only firings as Newsom signed 13 AI bills Under SB 947 a person must review automated decisions to discipline or fire someone, a year after Newsom vetoed the last version. The batch also covers workplace surveillance, healthcare AI and deepfakes. Source
Amazon shut Mechanical Turk after 21 years The crowdwork marketplace closed on Wednesday, on the date Amazon set in August. Source
Micron’s quarterly revenue more than quadrupled to $54.2bn Sales at its core data centre unit rose elevenfold on a year earlier to $18bn, and it forecast about $61.5bn of revenue for the current quarter. Source