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AI's worst week of 2026: FTC probe, a $6 trillion bill — and Gemini 4 'Argon' doesn't care

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The same seven days delivered a US regulator knocking on AI labs' doors, a brutal back-of-envelope math problem about the entire industry's business model, and Google shipping its next flagship model straight through the chaos. Here is what actually happened, with receipts from Hacker News (all sco…

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  1. 2026-10-04 05:00 · DEV Community — AI
    AI's worst week of 2026: FTC probe, a $6 trillion bill — and Gemini 4 'Argon' doesn't care

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