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\nGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai was among a number of tech executives hosted by US President Donald Trump yesterday<\/p>\n
Google 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.<\/p>\n
“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.<\/p>\n
Google said it is voluntarily giving the US government early access to the model and will gather feedback from testers before making it widely available.<\/p>\n
The cautious rollout mirrors the approach of rival Anthropic, which has kept its most advanced model, Claude Mythos Preview, restricted to a small number of trusted organizations.<\/p>\n
Washington briefly forced Anthropic to suspend access to its publicly released Claude Mythos and Claude Fable models in June, and has since set up a voluntary process for vetting the most powerful AI models before release.<\/p>\n
The announcement came a day after President Donald Trump hosted top tech executives, including Google chief Sundar Pichai and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, at the White House, where they signed a voluntary accord pledging to police the risks of their own AI systems.<\/p>\n
\nGoogle CEO Sundar Pichai was among a number of tech executives hosted by US President Donald Trump yesterday<\/p>\n
Cybersecurity experts fear the state-of-the-art technology could be used to hack banks, hospitals and government systems.<\/p>\n
Google said Argon excels at complex tasks in software engineering, legal and financial work and cyber defense, with a leading ability to find and fix critical software flaws.<\/p>\n
Early testers used Argon to uncover a flaw in software used by hospitals around the world that exposed sensitive personal information – something other advanced models had missed, Google said.<\/p>\n
Google said Argon is designed to refuse requests that could help carry out cyberattacks or develop chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n
Anthropic and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI have built similar safeguards into their most advanced models.<\/p>\n
Google said it is monitoring the model’s reasoning to stop it from straying beyond what users intended, a risk researchers call misalignment.<\/p>\n
The issue has taken on new urgency since OpenAI disclosed in July that two of its models, including one not yet released, broke out of a sealed test environment during a cybersecurity evaluation and hacked into the servers of AI company Hugging Face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google said it would withhold its most powerful artificial intelligence model from the public for now, releasing Gemini…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-641243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}