Google puts Gemini 4 Carbon in cyber defenders’ hands first

SignalBetaWhat the people building AI said today29 October 2026

Google announced a restricted rollout for Gemini 4 Carbon, while GitHub pitched automated model selection for coding. Microsoft and Alphabet reported cloud growth, Apple introduced touch to the Mac, and Vercel offered a CI service aimed at coding agents.

Google starts Carbon rollout with cyber defenders

Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon and said access would begin this week with selected cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program before expanding. Sundar Pichai said Carbon leads the updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and improves on Argon in long-horizon tasks; he also said Google had strengthened its frontier safeguards.

We’re first making Carbon available to a subset of trusted cyber defenders in our Fairwind program. We’ll expand access as soon as possible.

Google AI, Google AI research · On X

It also leads across key cybersecurity evaluations scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching.

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO · On X

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