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Britain's AI Security Institute is evaluating the latest generation of frontier models again, including Google's Gemini 4 Argon. AI Minister Kanishka Narayan confirmed the evaluations on Monday, October 12, in a speech at Imperial College London's Base One incubator, as the government unveiled a wider package to put frontier AI to work on national cyber defences and to prepare for serious incidents involving autonomous agents.

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Cloudflare rolled out Clef-omni on October 9, putting a new 30-billion-parameter model on Workers AI that does something most AI launches don't: it refuses to chat. Clef-omni is a decision model — it reads text, JSON, images, audio, and video in a single request and answers with calibrated probabilities over a schema of typed questions you define, with no prose and no output parsing.

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The most senior Democrat on the Senate's tech committee wants frontier AI regulated the way airlines are: mandatory standards, independent audits, and no takeoff until the inspection passes.

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