Google rolls out new Gemini AI model but restricts access over safety concerns

Tech company releases Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers Google on Wednesday said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini 4 Argon only to a vetted group of cybersecurity experts to avoid misuse by hackers.
“Safely releasing frontier capabilities at this level requires a phased approach,” wrote Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google’s chief AI architect, in a blog post announcing the model.
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