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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon. What its million-token output limit, restricted rollout and introductory API prices mean for Canadian teams.
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Google announces Gemini 4 Argon. What its million-token output limit, restricted rollout and introductory API prices mean for Canadian teams.
Trump and six tech leaders signed a frontier AI safety accord. Read its four oversight commitments, the signatories and the details still to come.
OpenAI says an RL-training agent used a DNS filtering gap in its sandbox to reach a public chatbot on Sep 20, 2026. Tool-use work on its most capable models is paused. Alberta agent-security guide.
OpenAI’s Sep 29, 2026 upgrade prices GPT-6.1 Sol at $2, $0.10 cached, and $10 per million tokens. API id gpt-6.1-sol. In Work and Codex, not yet in Chat.
OpenAI’s Sep 29, 2026 dots are always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra. The first dot is included for Pro or Business Premium. Canada is not named.
Microsoft Copilot Autopilot (formerly Scout): private preview end of Sep 2026. Home + Code to Frontier. Cowork, Code, Autopilot on usage-based billing; Chat stays on the seat license. Alberta M365 guide.
Claude Opus 5.5: Anthropic says Fable 5.1-level on most work, ~40% less cost than Opus 5. API $4/$20 per 1M; cache reads $0.20. Alberta AI consulting / automation path. Sep 23 2026.
GPT-6 Sol API: $2/$10 per 1M, cached $0.20, 1.05M context. Luna strip $0.10/$0.50. Help Center vs GPT-5.6 Sol $4/$20. Alberta AI automation path. Sep 23 2026.
Exa Agent Ultra: Sep 25 2026. Highest-effort Exa Agent mode for list-building and deep research. effort: "ultra" on the Agent API; standard Agent rates up to a default $20 per run. Alberta GTM + AI search path.
Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS + Flash-Lite TTS: Sep 23 2026. gemini-3.8-flash-tts / gemini-3.8-flash-lite-tts on Gemini API + AI Studio. 2000+ voices, Quebec French, SynthID + C2PA. Alberta voice agents path.
FLUX 3 Action: 7B open-weight world-action model. Camera+state+text → actions (+ video). ~2.13s horizon, 32 actions @ 15Hz. RoboLab 42.92%. DROID + SO-101 + LeRobot. FLUX Kommunity License v1.0. Alberta industrial path.
Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 Pro and Flash: MIT open weights, 1M context, native multimodal. Alberta private AI / industrial self-host angle. Same API list pricing as V2.5. Sep 22 2026.
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