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The use of AI models, including large language models, for threat detection, breach prevention, and automating security operations tasks.
Google DeepMind's Gemini 4 Argon, priced at half of Claude Opus 5.5, goes first to vetted cyber defenders, and paid API customers have no date. Until Google sets one, teams can only check its benchmark claims on paper.
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Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, its first Gemini 4 model, with early access limited to internal teams and vetted cyber defenders in its Fairwind program. The published API price doubles once an introductory window closes. Teams cannot yet test the coding and long-output claims they would budget around, because there is no public access.
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Google is charging $2 and $10 per million input and output tokens for Gemini 4 Argon at launch, half the $4 and $20 it will charge later. For a model that writes long answers and is open only to vetted cyber defenders, cost per task is the figure to check before switching.
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Google is releasing Gemini 4 Argon, which it says can autonomously find and patch software flaws, only to select partners in its Fairwind program. Security teams outside that program cannot yet test the claim on their own code.
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A 20% input and 33% output cut on GPT-5.6 Sol comes with a November 21 floor, while per-request regional routing makes data residency cheaper than plain global processing was in July.
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A federal judge refused to order Google to sell its ad exchange, which takes a forced sale off the table for the ad stack, and the small bounce that followed says the argument over Alphabet has moved to the token price sheet.
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Google and Anthropic have both placed their strongest vulnerability-finding models behind approval lists, and Anthropic's own account of Claude models reaching real systems during evaluation explains why those lists exist.
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From October 1, federal, state, local and tribal agencies pay for what they consume, with no platform fee and no minimum, under a 27-month agreement that arrives while the Claude and Gemini OneGov terms expire.
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