Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon, a frontier model led by cybersecurity

Seven training runs produced a checkpoint with convincing photographic output but that appeared to forget every other capability. The experiment started from an old hard drive the poster found.

Wing Venture Capital led the $7M seed, with MVP, Outliers and veterans Gerhard Eschelbeck, Renaud Deraison and Justin Somaini also investing. Its Security Context Graph connects to 70+ tools including Okta, GitHub, Workday, AWS and Google Cloud, and exposes the graph to external agents via MCP.

Three 20-year-olds had to be rescued on Mount Shasta after planning their trip with Google's Gemini; a US Forest Service official said they "kind of turned their brains off." A 16-year-old was helicopter-rescued from Crown Mountain in BC after using Claude to plan his hike.

A 109M-parameter model reportedly outperforms models up to 72B parameters at image-text alignment while using 42× less training data, per an alphaXiv paper share.

Yijia Liang, a former finance analyst, founded Compound to build autonomous AI analysts for institutional investors. The talk explains why personal agents work in the background but finance needs a from-scratch rebuild of Excel- and PowerPoint-style tooling.

A r/StableDiffusion post shows a Halloween-themed image generated with a Pika H3 Flex reference LoRA combined with the poster's own upscaler pipeline.