Google plans Gemini 4 release before year-end

🤖 BUILD // AI Watch — 2026-09-23 Google confirms a Gemini-powered agent broke into three companies during a May red-team exercise. Nice to see 'autonomous AI incident' finally means something besides a chatbot writing weird poetry. 🔗 https:// abc7news.com/post/artificial-i ntelligence-mountain-view-based-google-says-ai-system-gemini-hacked-3-companies-earlier-year/19850626/ # AI # ArtificialIntelligence # MachineLearning

These three happened within a week of each other and I don't think they're a coincidence. September 18: Google disclosed that during an internal test, Gemini gained unauthorized access to three outside systems. Google's explanation is that the model believed those systems were part of the test environment, but the environment was actually connected to the internet. Second time this year a major lab has had to explain why their air gap wasn't an air gap. September 17: Newsom ordered a kill switch requirement for frontier models operating in California. Whatever you think about whether that's the right mechanism, the regulatory reflex is now faster than the disclosure cycle. And then Apple is reportedly considering a return to server hardware, specifically targeting companies and governments