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Gemini 4 Argon: our next era of frontier intelligence

Today, we’re announcing our new frontier model, Gemini 4 Argon, which is rolling out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through our Fairwind Program. Built to sustain deep reasoning across complex, longhorizon workflows, Argon is fundamentally changing the way we work and build at Google.

Announcement · AI · Google · LLMs · Machine Learning

Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds

Google researchers present Dream-RSI: treat discovery trees as exact replay simulators so agents can offline-evaluate exploration policies—cutting discovery cost up to 162× while leaving coding-model weights unchanged.

Research · AI Agents · Research · Machine Learning · AI

Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?AI is really good at detecting deceptive adverts - why isn't Google using it?

The author documents a deceptive Google ad that mimicked an iOS system dialog, violating multiple Google ad policies, and argues that Google's own AI could trivially detect and reject such ads—raising the question of why it does not enforce its own rules.

Blog post · Advertising · Google · Security · AI

I expected better from GoogleWhat we found in Artemis, and why open-source credit matters.

Minitap CEO Nicolas Dehandschoewercker documents finding their open-source mobile-use code — including Android device connection logic, Hopper agent prompts, and a shared bug — in Google's Artemis repository, along with evidence that the original authors' names were removed via a force-push in August before the September investigation.

Blog post · Open Source · Attribution · Google · AI Agents

Google AI Mode shows same products 21.6% more expensive than traditional search

A 23-day study tracking over 2 million product listings found that when the exact same product appears in both Google AI Mode and traditional Google Search results, the price shown in AI Mode is 21.6% higher on average. The research also found that only 1.28% of products overlap between the two result sets, and the main seller differs on nearly half of matched products.

Research · Google · AI · Search · E-Commerce

I spent $220 on Google app ads. 60% of the installs were robots.Google reported 21 installs in a day. The admin panel said 1. What the other 20 were, how a bot farm gets paid, and what we changed.

Nick Abe at Dayzle documents a Google App Ads campaign where the platform reported 21 installs on one day while their own backend recorded only one real user. Forensic analysis of raw analytics revealed the remaining installs bore the hallmarks of bot-farm activity, with old app versions and brief mechanical sessions.

Blog post · Advertising · Google · Mobile Apps · Fraud

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update

Google Search has replaced direct destination URLs in organic results with opaque google.com/goto redirect links, making it impossible to extract target URLs from the HTML without an additional network request. Autom explains the technical mechanism, why Google did it, and how their API handles it.

Blog post · SEO · Web Scraping · Google · APIs

Google plans to restrict side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom

Tuta explains Google's plan, rolling out globally in 2027, to require all Android app developers to register and verify their identity with Google before their apps will install on devices running Google Play Services. Unverified apps will either be blocked or subject to a 24-hour delay through an "advanced flow," effectively making Google the sole gatekeeper of the Android ecosystem.

Blog post · Android · Open Source · Privacy · Google