Google says Carbon will launch at the same introductory price as Argon, $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, with cached input at 95% off. For now it goes to "a subset of cyber defenders" and then to more trusted…
In the News: October 28, 2026 (Extra 2)
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon with claims of days-long agentic runs and near-zero test cheating, but access is limited to security partners for now.
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I will no longer upload to NEW
A Debian developer says uploads to the project's NEW queue now appear to be passed to an LLM review without an announcement, quotes a review that calls itself machine-generated and unchecked by the DFSG team, and says he will not upload to NEW unless he can opt out. This is his account; the thread has replies from other developers that were not read, and no statement from the DFSG team was found.