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The five AI stories that mattered from October 12 to 14: Gemini 4 Argon, The X Subscription, Grok Bot 0.70.2, Muse Wonder and small-model self-replication, with prices and availability.
A first look at Gemini 4 Argon from official info: Pro and Ultra access, API pricing, the 1M unified token limit, Tasks in the Gemini app and Google’s benchmarks.
After two weeks in the hands of cyber defenders only, Google’s flagship model goes global, with an introductory price that doubles in December.
Official prices side by side, what the free tiers and the $20 plans really add, availability in the US, UK and EU, privacy and GDPR, and who should pay for which.
Google Cloud used Gemini at Work 2026 to introduce the Gemini agent, a single agent for work that takes objectives instead of instructions, plans on its own, connects to company systems and works inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets. It picks between Gemini and Claude models, can spin up coworker agents with their own email addresses, and comes with real-time spend caps.
The exact setting in each tool on desktop and mobile, what it doesn’t do, how long temporary chats are kept, how work accounts differ, and what GDPR adds for users in the EU and UK.
Gemini Gems end for personal accounts in November 2026. A practical guide to moving them to Skills yourself: inventory, converting Word and Excel files, creating the skill, adding files, testing, and a worked example.
A first-look Gemini review based on Google’s official pages: what you get for free, what Plus, Pro and Ultra add, which features depend on your country, and what happens to your chats.
Google is introducing Skills in Gemini: reusable custom instructions you save once and run with a slash in the prompt bar. Skills replace Gems, are already in Spark, and are rolling into Gemini chat globally, with a clear timeline for ending Gems support.
Google announced Gemini 4 Argon on September 30, 2026. It is the first model in the Gemini 4 generation and the company’s new flagship. The announcement on Google’s official blog was written by Koray Kavukcuoglu, SVP at Google DeepMind and Google’s Chief AI Architect, and it presents a model built for long, complex work: software […]
