AI News for October 14, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, claims it beats GPT-6 Astra and Claude at a fifth of the price: Google began rolling out Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier model, to Gemini Pro and Ultra subscribers, AI Mode in Search, Antigravity (Ultra only) and the API in AI Studio.
[NEWS] FBI arrests OpenAI engineer for bugging an executive conference room: The FBI arrested a 35-year-old Saudi national and OpenAI engineering lead on its Agents Platform for planting an encrypted recording device in an executive conference room at OpenAI's San Francisco office.
[NEWS] Character.AI files for bankruptcy, Disney bids $20M for its tech: Character.AI filed for Chapter 11 in Delaware to run a court-supervised sale, listing $50M-100M in liabilities.
[NEWS] Apple prices HomeView at $299, ships November 13, and skips the EU: HomeView is a 7-inch smart display that runs Siri AI, recognizes up to six household members by face and controls Apple Home devices.
[RESEARCH] Gemini 4 Argon scores 87% on embodied reasoning, controls Boston Dynamics Spot: Google DeepMind says Gemini 4 Argon scores 87% on the Embodied Reasoning (ERQA) benchmark using pure reasoning, ahead of every other frontier model.
[TOOLS] Google Play lets anyone install private vibe-coded Android apps: Google now lets US users launch personal apps built in Google AI Studio directly through the Play Store, without publishing them publicly or connecting a phone to a computer.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic now merges 30,000 code changes a day, built its own version control to cope: Anthropic went from about 2,500 merged code changes per day in May 2026 to more than 30,000 in September, driven by Claude writing code autonomously.
[NEWS] 406 scientists including Hinton and Bengio demand AI models be cut off from the internet: An open letter signed by 406 scientists, including Geoffrey Hinton, Yoshua Bengio, Stuart Russell, Yejin Choi and Bernhard Schölkopf, calls on AI companies to airgap their models from external networks.
[RESEARCH] Anthropic cuts Claude reasoning-token theft by up to 99%, names Zhipu and Moonshot: Anthropic says new defenses against distillation attacks cut the volume of extracted Claude reasoning tokens by 90-99%.
[NEWS] Anthropic asks appeals court to rehear Pentagon supply-chain risk ruling: Anthropic petitioned the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C.

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