DAILY AI BRIEF 🗞 — Oct 1 GOOGLE 🔥: - Gemini 4 Argon is with Fairwind trusted testers and the US government. 1M output tokens. Broader rollout ASAP. - Built for coding, enterprise knowledge work, and cyber defense. Google's chart: 77.9% on DeepSWE v1.1, a new SOTA. - Artificial Analysis: 53 on the Intelligence Index, tying GPT-6 Astra. List $4/$20 per 1M, 50% promo to $2/$10, cache reads $0.10. - Skills are rolling out globally in Gemini. Gems migrate into Skills in November. Opal shuts down Nov 17. - Security review mode spotted in Google AI Studio, next to a Plan mode still in development. ANTHROPIC 🔥: - Claude[.]dev is live: engineering deep dives, Claude Code and API guides, plus easter eggs. - Founder House is set for SF Tech Week Oct 6–8 and Stockholm Oct 14. - Skills attachment menu spotted on Claude mobile. SPACEX AI 🔥: - Grok Bot got new developer upgrades. Elon: try the latest. Team engineer bots in Slack can open Projects and hand coding to cloud agents. OPENAI 🔥: - Shareable profiles are live in ChatGPT, bundling Sites and plugins so others can find and reuse what you built. PERPLEXITY 🔥: - pplx-embed-v2-context-9b-preview is on Hugging Face. Leads ConTEB answer and evidence retrieval. 1 KB vectors vs Voyage's 8 KB. * Used Grok to compose this brief, cherry-picking the news and doing some post-editing. ** This daily brief also arrives in the daily email format; subscribe on the blog.

Only President Trump could convene all the leaders of the top companies developing chips, data centers and frontier models for Super Intelligence. This new Industrial Revolution has already created a million new jobs and is spurring a bigger infrastructure build-out than the railroads, canals and grid combined. I was honored to witness history as the leaders of the frontier lab companies signed the White House Accord on Super Intelligence, accepting responsibility for the safe development of their products and imposing new internal controls and external audits. This is far better than waiting years for some international agreement that would probably never happen. President Trump continues to ensure that U.S. remains the technology leader while putting Americans first.

I'm delighted to share that @mustafasuleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, co-founder of Google DeepMind and Inflection AI, has signed the Pro-Human AI Declaration. If you too support it, please join him and over a million others by signing it here – the momentum is building! Let's build tools not beings & keep humans in charge. https://humanstatement.org

Generating high-quality images is cheaper and faster than ever. Muse Image, MAI-Image-2.6 and GPT Images 2.5 have substantially shifted the Text to Image Pareto frontiers for both price and speed in recent weeks.

Any pursuit of superintelligence has to be grounded in the core principle that if the AI we build is not helping humanity and under human control, it's not worth pursuing. We also need to accelerate and spread the benefits of AI, such that they are diffused broadly across countries, communities, and companies. This requires a frontier ecosystem in which both closed and open-source models can thrive. And for firms, it’s imperative that they retain full control over their unique and tacit knowledge. Every organization should be able to build its own continuous learning loop/hill climbing machine, without becoming dependent on any one model provider, and have the ability to embed its own knowledge into models and weights they control. So, in this context, we welcome the research, focus, and deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right as the design goal. We also welcome ideas like "embedded evaluators" and the broader efforts to develop the mechanisms to make this more than just talk. The key is that this cannot be controlled by a handful of entities, but must have broad representation across the ecosystem, countries, and fields, including academia. This is the approach we are taking: broad access and choice at every layer of the AI stack; enterprise control of learning loops and models; and the “Code of Conduct” that underlies our own first party MAI models that we’ll publish tomorrow for public consultation.