Gemini 4 Argon launches, Google kills Gems — AI News Oct 1

Google launches Gemini 4 Argon: first Gemini 4 model, defender-first rollout via the Fairwind Program, 1M-token output ceiling, intro pricing $2/$10 per million tokens. Google kills Gems for the open Skills format, with Anthropic and OpenAI converging on the same standard. OpenAI launches Dots, its always-on personal AI assistant, and shifts 5-10% of compute from training to safety monitoring. The FTC opens a probe into frontier labs with potential DOJ referrals for rogue AI behavior. Snorkel AI highlights LibraryDesignBench for agent-written libraries, and a Cambridge paper on automating AI R&D draws co-authors from OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Hinton and Bengio.