Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, its newest flagship AI model, claiming frontier results in software engineering, legal and finance work, and cybersecurity defense. Outside access starts with a small set of trusted cyber defenders while safeguards are added, but it already runs internal jobs like large-scale codebase migrations at Google and learns from enormous amounts of text and code.

Summary written with AI by HowTechMoves, based on reporting by The Verge.