Gemini 4 Argon now in the API and the Gemini app for subscribers
Google is opening Gemini 4 Argon to the paid API and to the Gemini app for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. The introductory API price runs until November 30.
Week of October 19, 2026 · 10 min read
13 stories this week. Lead story: Gemini 4 Argon now in the API and the Gemini app for subscribers.
Google is opening Gemini 4 Argon to the paid API and to the Gemini app for Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. The introductory API price runs until November 30.
After the special meeting of October 9, a Commission page sets out key recommendations from the AI Scientific Panel on the safety of the most advanced models.
In an initial statement, the European Data Protection Board explains when people recording with smart glasses have obligations under the GDPR.
Reflection AI has published the weights of Beam, a 501B-parameter model, on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0, which also allows commercial use.
An open-weights model for creating and editing images; the INT8 build runs on GeForce RTX cards with 8GB of VRAM. Free commercial use below $5M in annual revenue.
Meta has released the weights of Muse Spark Open, an 816B-parameter model. Its license requires a notice in every product that uses it, and a separate agreement from anyone offering it as a service with more than $20 million in revenue over 12 months.
NVIDIA has released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open 120B-parameter model that reads images and PDFs, along with the smaller Bolt 74B-A9B for local use.
Mistral AI has released Timestral, four time-series forecasting models from 5M to 209M parameters that the company says run without a GPU. The 209M weights’ license does not apply to companies with more than $20 million in monthly revenue.
Subject to stockholder approval, Anthropic is committing 5% of its shares to the new Anthropic Public Benefit Fund. With earlier commitments it estimates roughly 20%.
Lovable Enterprise customers can send supported AI requests to European endpoints, with several limits.
Vercel Pro teams can, in early access, pay $30 a month for $80 of monthly credit on GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3.
GRNET has opened a public consultation, until October 31, on the draft tender for an AI supercomputer at the University of Western Macedonia, budgeted at €21,572,294.95 including VAT.
A new analysis by the Commission’s Joint Research Centre finds AI use in the EU’s 10 strategic sectors rose from 7% of firms in 2021 to 18% in 2025. Tourism and agri-food lag behind.
Since October 13, GitHub blocks new Anthropic keys before they are pushed, wherever secret scanning is on. It is free for public repositories.