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Thursday, October 1, 2026

  1. Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
  2. DoorDash launches an AI agent you can text to order food
  3. Here’s what AI leaders are saying about Trump’s new safety plan
  4. Here’s how tech leaders will self-police AI safety under Trump’s deal
  5. The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response
  6. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer
  7. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan
  8. Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design
  9. Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
  10. Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now
  11. OpenAI’s Jev clone could help the frontier lab stop its swarming agents
  12. AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B
  13. The AI Tamagotchis are coming
  14. Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
  15. The ugly economics of consumer AI