Google announces Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model that you can't use

Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/google-announces-gemini-4-carbon-its-latest-frontier-ai-model-that-you-cant-use/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@mcc

ESTRAGON:
DeezNutS

I am suspecting they don't quite understand the actual topology of their area... there's some green north of the city which seems (to me) to be a very mild water path (we are talking... Texas plains)... enough rain up there, and it all settles down there in town. Look at the moisture index here of the town. Old floodplain? Occasional river?

Hejochhå, #drinkklubben! Är det världsamarodagen får man ta en aperitivo medan fläsksidan står i ugnen. Amaro Montenegro. Utomordentligt välsmakande komplexitet och från favoritstaden Bologna. Och #dagensglas fortsätter veckans tema - Skruf. >>

@jwildeboer @aurisc4 @AndiBarth

If you're sending HTML email, I have to assume you are a fool, or you are a deceiver.

#Iykyk

@jonah Cellular would have been a much more useful addition over touch.

@gruber Hawt.

It feels annoying that this piece of technology stopped working due to something so stupid but on the other hand it lasted me 12 years, which is more than my previous Wacom which only worked for 9 (and which I had to replace because the stylus died, and the drivers no longer were updated for that one either).

But also fuck Wacom, they've gone to hell.

“The logo is back.”

@davidrevoy because of «recent events in cybersecurity», reading the second panel I thought she wanted the druid to generate some kind of magical number that has never been seen before; and the spell goes slightly wrong and just summon a giant 4.

@lowqualityfacts Wow way to throw necrophiliacs under the bus. Who says a loving relationship has to be with the living?

@arstechnica I’ll pass…

@newline awesome 😎

It's 3 years since the #Faircamp #webring was created so I've given it a tiny brush up - you can now link to the directory page with the sort order set using an anchor.

For example - to see the newest members: https://faircamp.webr.ing/directory.html#newest

You'll see that, since the last one of these, we've welcomed:

@TheAustrasianGoat
@conniptions
@paulbrederveld
@boscoandpeck

.. and, sadly, we've said goodbye to a few folks as they decommissioned their sites. But we're still holding at over 100 members!