Friday, 2 October 2026

Business

Barclays expands Claude across bank operations and coding

Targets Claude Code for half of developers by end-2026. Already routes 120,000 markets emails a day and assists 16,000 UK colleagues.

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Models

Google announces Gemini 4 Argon frontier model

Google DeepMind's new frontier model starts with trusted cyber defenders via Fairwind, targeting long-horizon coding, enterprise knowledge work and defensive cybersecurity. Introductory API pricing is $2/$10 per million tokens before a wider paid rollout.

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