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Gemini 4 Argon - Out and Tested!!: Sam Witteveen posted a video testing Gemini 4 Argon, comparing it with other models, reviewing its strengths and generated outputs. The description links to a Google blog post introducing Gemini 4 Argon and an Artificial Analysis page but reports no specific benchmark results.

Artificial Intelligence • Sam Witteveen

Tsinghua researchers release SRHarness for formula discovery, MechBench for mechanism recovery: Tsinghua researchers released SRHarness, an open-source runtime for agentic symbolic regression, and MechBench, a benchmark that tests whether AI can recover the mechanisms behind formulas. SRHarness targets formula discovery, while MechBench evaluates mechanism recovery.

AI Research • Pandaily

Google releases Gemini 4 Argon worldwide, saying Argon cut coding tasks from months to weeks: Google released Gemini 4 Argon worldwide via its API, Gemini app, and Google Antigravity. It is aggressively priced but trails Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 and Meta's Muse Wonder Full in independent benchmarks. Google says Argon internally cut coding tasks from months to weeks.

AI Models • The Decoder

Shing-Tung Yau launches 8-institution alliance of 1,000+ scientists to apply AI to math: Fields Medal winner Shing-Tung Yau launched an alliance of eight institutions and over 1,000 scientists to apply AI to mathematics research. The move comes as 25 Western Fields Medal winners warned against AI-generated proofs, with some community members calling for a boycott.

Science • The Decoder

ModelBest open-sources MiniCPM-V 4.7, saying its MoE model runs in about 3GB on an iPhone 17 Pro Max: ModelBest open-sourced MiniCPM-V 4.7, its first MoE multimodal model, in 35B-A3B and 1B sizes. The company says the MoE version runs in about 3GB of memory on an iPhone 17 Pro Max and decodes at over 13 tokens per second.

open source • Pandaily

MagicLab's EchoPolicy-0 tops AI2's MolmoSpaces board with 75.4% manipulation success: MagicLab said its VLM agent framework EchoPolicy-0 averaged 75.4% across four MolmoSpaces tasks, and AI2's published leaderboard data lists it first. Its MagicBrain component reached 94.4% on the pick task.

AI & Robotics • Pandaily

Shopify opens over a billion listings to more AI agents for purchases: Shopify announced Tuesday that shoppers will be able to configure their AI agents to purchase products on their behalf. The expansion gives more AI agents access to over a billion listings in Shopify's catalog.

Agentic Commerce • The Verge AI

Amex introduces framework to prevent unauthorized AI agent purchases: American Express introduced a framework to ensure AI agents only complete purchases their users have authorized. The initiative aims to prevent unauthorized purchases and related disputes as AI-powered shopping grows. Specific availability and enforcement details were not disclosed.

American Express • TechCrunch AI

Nvidia • Nvidia

Nvidia commits $250M in accelerated computing to UK AI safety research over five years: Nvidia pledged $250 million worth of accelerated computing resources to Britain over five years to fund AI security and agentic safety research, Jensen Huang said. Reuters reported the US chipmaker made the commitment to support UK research.

AGIBOT • AGIBOT

Chinese AI robot maker AGIBOT nears new funding round at about RMB 50 billion valuation: AGIBOT is nearing completion of a new funding round of approximately RMB 1 billion to RMB 1.5 billion, valuing the Chinese AI robot maker at about RMB 50 billion, according to investors cited by Caijing. Founded in 2023, AGIBOT began preparing for a Hong Kong listing in July.

Nvidia, Huawei • Nvidia

Nvidia's China AI accelerator share falls to 34% in H1 2026 as Huawei reaches 28%: Nvidia's share of China's data-center AI accelerator market fell to 34% in H1 2026, while Huawei reached 28%, per an IDC report seen by Reuters. Nvidia shipped 678,000 AI accelerators in China from January to June, down 44% year over year, as US export restrictions constrained supplies.

Pluto Security • Series A

Pluto Security exits stealth with $42M, including $34M Series A, to monitor AI agents: Pluto Security has exited stealth with $42 million, including a $34 million Series A, to monitor AI agents and vibe-coded apps. The company says it has reached more than $2 million in ARR since April.

NVIDIA

NVIDIA article covers rewriting Spark UDFs for GPU acceleration with AI agents