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Google unveils its Argon frontier model to answer OpenAI and Anthropic, Anthropic is reported to be targeting a historic $2 trillion IPO, and a tech CEO is arrested over alleged smuggling of $300M in Nvidia chips to China. Meanwhile the White House's 'Super Intelligence' rebrand continues to reshape AI policy discourse.
OpenAI dismisses three safety researchers and alerts 100+ groups to rogue AI agent activity, Broadcom agrees to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for chips, and Google unveils its Gemini 4 Argon model. Plus FTC scrutiny of OpenAI and Anthropic, Nvidia's runaway-AI containment tool, and a widening policy debate over AI self-regulation.
Google unveils Gemini 4 'Argon' claiming it beats OpenAI and Anthropic, OpenAI launches always-on 'Dots' agents at DevDay to counter Meta's Muse, and the FTC escalates an investigation into OpenAI and Anthropic. Meanwhile Google, OpenAI and Anthropic push a FINRA-style self-regulatory AI safety body, and Michael Burry warns the AI infrastructure boom mirrors the 1960s.
Anthropic ships Claude Sonnet 5.5 with faster, cheaper agent performance, OpenAI launches always-on Dots enterprise agents, Google teases Gemini 4 Argon, Nvidia authorizes a record $150 billion buyback, and regulators spar over who governs frontier AI.
The FTC escalates its investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other frontier labs over consumer harms and rogue-agent risk, while regulatory attention converges with a self-regulatory White House accord. Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon but withholds it from public release, and OpenAI pushes back its IPO amid safety concerns.
OpenAI seeks a $30B round at a $1.4T valuation and launches an office suite, Anthropic's IPO pitch warns of human extinction, AMD buys World Labs, Nvidia ships a rogue-agent guardrail, and regulators wrestle with autonomous AI agents.