Google October AI recap: Gemini 4 Argon and Genie 4 released

Google recapped October AI updates: it rolled out frontier reasoning model Gemini 4 Argon globally, announced Gemini 4 Carbon two weeks later, and launched Genie 4 for real-time interactive world simulation, alongside Android scam blocking and a SynthID detector.

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