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Anthropic announced the expansion of its Cyber Verification Program to provide advanced cyber capabilities and reduced safeguards to verified security teams through three access levels. The company’s tests show that restricted access kept most offensive scenarios blocked while allowing greater capabilities for authorized testing teams.
Google presents the Gemini 4 Argon model as an advanced model that outperforms GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, and Claude Opus 5.5 in 14 of 19 internal benchmarks. However, independent evaluations reveal weaknesses in some programming tasks, while the model's public availability remains tied to safety testing.