Carbon starts with cyber defenders
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon is designed for long-running engineering and cybersecurity work. Google says its teams have used the model to trace and patch subtle bugs across large codebases, while internal tests found fewer unsupported claims than with Gemini 4 Argon.
Access is narrow for now. A subset of cyber defenders gets Carbon this week, followed gradually by additional trusted partners through Google’s Fairwind Program. Developer, business, and consumer access is still coming soon.
One model for multilingual recordings
NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe is an open-weight speech model that combines transcription, speaker labels, translation, and audio questions. It transcribes 40 languages, translates 31 to or from English, handles recordings up to an hour, and can label as many as eight speakers.
Natural-language instructions can request a translated transcript, identify speakers, or ask what decisions were made in a meeting. The checkpoint is available on Hugging Face and ModelScope, with hosted endpoints for readers who do not want to self-host it.
Copilot coordinates larger projects
The GitHub Copilot app now has Projects for work spanning repositories, design mocks, Slack threads, and meeting notes. Give it a goal and context, choose models and tools, then review results such as pull requests. Projects are in public preview.
Computer use is also in public preview on macOS and Windows. With approval, Copilot can read app content, click controls, enter text, and navigate desktop software that lacks an API or command-line interface.
Also
- Build once for Gemini and Search Google’s Connected Apps Platform preview lets developers register, test, and submit an integration for either product or both.
- Use a managed harness for agents Microsoft Foundry’s public preview combines reusable skills, connected tools, files, subagents, and managed execution.
- Start a browser game with one prompt Simon Willison shares four HTML and JavaScript games, playable examples, prompts, and chat transcripts from his experiments.
- Explore a jet engine or the Silk Road Gemini’s new library presents topics as guided interactive scenes and is available to all users across six languages.
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