24 September 2026

Google: Gemini 4 will ship "as soon as possible"

Google DeepMind CTO Koray Kavukcuoglu confirmed to The Information that Gemini 4 is already in post-training, the stage of refining the model's behavior and running safety tests before launch. Google wants to release an early version as soon as possible, and Kavukcuoglu expects that to happen well before the end of 2026. He did not give a specific date.

Update September 30: Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, for now available only to trusted cybersecurity specialists.

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Audi RS 5: all 2026 production sold out, European orders nearly double expectations - now sales start outside Europe

Audi said on Wednesday, October 7, that this year's entire production of the new RS 5 is sold out and that it has nearly twice as many orders in Europe as it expected. The 470 kW (639 hp) plug-in hybrid, built in Neckarsulm, is now going on sale in Australia, New Zealand and Japan, followed by Korea, Taiwan and other overseas markets. Audi is tying the market launch to the Singapore Grand Prix (October 9-11), the brand's first F1 night race; Nico Hülkenberg's and Gabriel Bortoleto's R26 cars and the RS 5 on display in Singapore received a special Titanium Silver Gray paint for the occasion, which cannot be ordered.

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Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon - initially only for trusted cybersecurity specialists

Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, a new model that according to the company has, among other things, the top score on the DeepSWE v1.1 coding benchmark (77.9 percent, compared with 74.2 percent for Claude Opus 5.5 and 74.1 percent for GPT-6 Astra) and can generate responses up to a million tokens long. For now, it is available only to trusted cybersecurity specialists in the Fairwind program, and without the safeguards that block hacking tasks. The company will open wider access, first in the paid API and for Google AI Ultra subscribers, only after strengthening the safeguards. The launch price is $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens.

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Google will limit model access in free Gemini - only Flash-Lite from October 9

Starting October 9, Google will begin limiting model access in the Gemini app on personal accounts: users without a paid plan will keep only the Flash-Lite model and lose access to the Flash and Pro models, according to a Google help document reported by 9to5Google. Subscribers to the cheapest paid plan, AI Plus, will lose access to the Pro model, and Google is to notify them of the date by email. AI Pro subscribers, on the other hand, will get Deep Think mode, so far reserved for the AI Ultra plan.

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