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Google has unveiled Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model, aimed at finding and fixing security flaws rather than at the general chat market. The company says it delivers state of the art results on cybersecurity tasks, including vulnerability discovery, exploitation and software patching, and generates secure code at more than twice the success rate of Gemini 4 Argon on internal benchmarks.

In San Francisco, sixth grade humanities teacher Tristen Chang has stopped setting take home essays. She runs oral exams instead, asking 15 questions about character, plot, theme and metaphor, which students answer in as little as five minutes. "There's been a long march of technology changing teaching, but AI is the most drastic, and everything's out the window," she told Reuters.

Singapore has proposed a small pilot scheme for reporting artificial intelligence incidents, so that countries can share what went wrong instead of each learning it alone. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong put the idea to a meeting of global leaders on frontier AI safety, held online and jointly hosted by Finland's president and Norway's prime minister, with 22 countries and the European Commission taking part.