Google’s Gemini 4 Argon arrives in the Gemini app for paying users

Google’s newest frontier model is now available to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers. Google says replies are more direct with less padding, and coding is much stronger.

Character.AI files for bankruptcy and sells some assets to Disney

The chatbot company filed for Chapter 11 in the US and agreed to sell some assets to Disney for $20 million. The service keeps running during the sale.

Intel announces the D270, an AI inference card with up to 480 GB of memory

A 350 W, air-cooled PCIe card for serving AI models in data centers. It uses cheaper LPDDR5X memory instead of HBM to fit far more of it on one card.

OpenAI engineer charged with hiding a recording device in an executive meeting room

The FBI arrested him on October 9 and he appeared in federal court on Tuesday. OpenAI says he has been fired and that there’s no sign he took model weights, code or customer data.

Cyberattack hits supermarket systems in France, Belgium and the Netherlands

A French chain confirmed attackers interfered with store refrigeration. In the Netherlands, Albert Heijn shut down some systems after websites and electronic price labels were disrupted.

AWS Lambda can now run ordinary web apps without rewriting them

Lambda Web Functions run Express, Fastify or Next.js servers as-is, billed on CPU time actually used. Node.js 24 only, in five regions for now.

Apple launches a smart-home lineup, led by a $299 kitchen-counter display

HomeView is a 7-inch smart display that recognizes who is using it. Alongside it: a new Apple TV 4K ($299), HomePod mini 2 ($149), and cameras, locks and thermostats made with LG and Schneider Electric.

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