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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon with limited initial access · FTC investigates AI safety at OpenAI and Anthropic · DeepSeek open-sources inference components for Huawei Ascend
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon for complex coding, knowledge work and cyber defense, initially rolling it out to trusted defenders through Fairwind. Broader access will follow a phased safety process, so the announcement is not a general release.
Read at 9to5Google
The FTC has opened a broad investigation into AI-system safety, including OpenAI and Anthropic, a source confirmed to ABC News. The probe adds federal scrutiny of potential risks from widely deployed AI systems.
Read at ABC News
DeepSeek released inference infrastructure and core components for Huawei Ascend, including sparse-attention prefill and decoding kernels in FlashMLA. The release gives developers open implementation details for running DeepSeek workloads on Ascend hardware.
Read at DeepSeek
Google DeepMind introduced SynthID Bio to embed detectable signatures in AI-generated biological sequences and structures while preserving function. The work could improve provenance tracking, although resistance to deliberate removal remains a challenge.
Read at Google DeepMind
Pew compared AI-generated digital-twin responses with three actual survey waves and found that synthetic polling failed to reproduce public opinion reliably. The findings challenge the use of AI respondents as substitutes for traditional polling.
Read at Pew Research Center
HPE announced its first AMD Helios order, a $1.2 billion deal to deploy AI rack systems at Vultr data centers in the United States. The systems will support model training and inference as cloud customers seek more compute capacity.
Read at HPE
Cloudflare opened Pay Per Use in beta, letting publishers accept offers for specified AI uses of their content. Buyers report usage while Cloudflare handles billing and payouts, creating a payment mechanism beyond individual licensing negotiations.
Read at Cloudflare
ElevenLabs said it completed a $300 million employee tender offer valuing the voice-AI company at $22 billion. The transaction gives existing holders liquidity and reflects investor demand for voice agents; it is not a conventional primary funding round.
Read at Reuters
Clio acquired Learned Hand, which develops AI tools specifically for judges and courts, marking its first direct expansion into the judiciary. The acquisition targets court capacity as AI accelerates legal research, drafting and filings.
Read at PR Newswire
Reco raised an additional $55 million with participation from AT&T Ventures, Forestay and Quadrille Capital, bringing total funding to $140 million. It will expand sales, partnerships and support for tools that map AI agents, permissions and access to enterprise systems.
Read at GlobeNewswire