Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon, Tops Multiple Leaderboards at About Half the Cost of Astra
Google released its new-generation flagship model Gemini 4 Argon, scoring 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1, surpassing Claude Opus 5.5's 74.2% and GPT-6 Astra's 74.1%, and taking first place on Text Arena with 1,525 points, at roughly half the cost of Astra. Meanwhile, OpenAI said it had stopped a distillation campaign that stole model reasoning, but the same technique still works on Azure.
Model Releases/Updates
AI2 Releases Olmo-core 3: Open-Source Scalable Training Infrastructure for Large MoE
AI2 released Olmo-core 3, a major upgrade to its large language model development framework that redesigns the open MoE training system, with the goal of scaling MoE training to the trillion-parameter level while maintaining computational efficiency.
Product Releases/Updates
NVIDIA GPU-Accelerated OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast Goes Live
GPT-6 Astra Ultrafast is now live in the OpenAI API and available to eligible ChatGPT Work and Codex users, running on NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs.
Industry News
The DecoderOpenAI Says It Stopped Campaign Stealing Model Reasoning, but the Same Technique Still Works on Azure
OpenAI said it stopped a distillation campaign that stole model reasoning content; the campaign was at a low volume starting July 1, surged on July 24-25 to 16,000 requests from more than 4,000 users, involving more than 15,000 associated accounts, and OpenAI said all were shut down by July 28, noting that these were attempted extractions and not necessarily successful.
The DecoderSecurity firm finds AI agents publicly uploaded over 13,000 internal corporate screenshots
Security startup Glow Security found that AI agents uploaded more than 13,000 screenshots of internal software projects from 343 organizations to public GitHub repositories, involving Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and AI labs.