A quick roundup of developer news since the last digest.
AI & models
- Gemini 4 Argon arrives: Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Argon, which is reportedly built around a unified 1M-token limit for both input and output. It is rolling out in the Gemini app and Antigravity, apparently for paying users first. Google DeepMind
- Anthropic rethinks source control: Anthropic's engineering team describes how it redesigned its source control setup, a useful read for anyone running large monorepos or heavy automated commit traffic. Anthropic Engineering
- Physical Intelligence opens an API beta: The robotics-model company is offering developers API access to its frontier models for controlling robots. Physical Intelligence
- Google Play allows private vibe-coded apps: Google now lets anyone build apps with AI assistance and run them privately on Android through Play, without a public release. TechCrunch
- Disney bids for Character.AI tech: Following the company's bankruptcy filing, Disney has reportedly offered $20M for its chatbot technology. Ars Technica
Security
- Anthropic red team tests self-replicating AI worms: A red-team experiment ran AI agents across 15 cheap TV boxes, and the scaling math reportedly turned out unsettling for defenders. The New Stack
- GitHub improves secret detection: GitHub describes a new model for finding leaked secrets that aims to catch more of them with fewer false positives. GitHub Blog
- North Korean remote workers in dozens of US firms: The US Justice Department says North Korean operatives have infiltrated dozens of American companies, a reminder to tighten hiring and identity checks for remote engineers. TechCrunch
Releases & infrastructure
- Backstage 1.55: The release adds task recovery for the Scaffolder and removes deprecated Catalog APIs, so plugin authors should check for breakage. InfoQ
- How Cloudflare D1 scales to millions of databases: Cloudflare explains the control-plane design that keeps D1's per-tenant databases off the hot path. Cloudflare Blog
Industry
- OpenAI engineer arrested over bugged meeting room: The FBI arrested an OpenAI employee accused of planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room. TechCrunch
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