[gemini-4-argon]

October 14, 2026

• Google shipped Gemini 4 Argon worldwide via API, the Gemini app and Antigravity — priced aggressively but trailing Claude Opus 5.5 and Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks (The Decoder). · AI & Model Security

in Three Chained Zero-Days Put Root on a Fully Patched Ivanti VPN

October 3, 2026

• Gemini 4 Argon is rolling out to vetted cyber defenders through Google's Fairwind Program, with a guardrail-free variant planned. Google says Argon handles autonomous vulnerability patching and that on Wiz's internal black-box penetration testing benchmark — analyzing live web systems without source code — it outperformed 3.8 Flash Cyber at attack-surface discovery, vulnerability identification and producing PoC evidence. 1M token context, $2/$10 per million input/output tokens (Google, SecurityWeek). On HN, one commenter dryly notes Gemini is "not beating the 'can't release a model' allegations" given the staged rollout (discussion). · AI & Model Security

in NetScaler Round Two: Patched Appliances Crashing Again as a New SAML Bug Gets Reproduced

October 1, 2026

• Google released Gemini 4 Argon, its first frontier model in over seven months; independent testing puts it level with GPT-6 Astra and behind Claude Opus 5.5, at a low per-token price but more than twice the tokens per task (The Decoder). · AI & Model Security

in An Encoded Character Away From Admin: Cisco SD-WAN Manager Exploited in the Wild