Gemini 4 Argon's API price doubles Dec 1 — $2/$10 becomes $4/$20
The cheaper introductory rate ends Nov 30 — plus an infostealer that has an LLM appraise its victims, and YC's agent swarms turned loose in Minecraft.
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The intro rate ends Nov 30 — then every token costs double
Gemini 4 Argon's introductory pricing ($2 in / $10 out per 1M tokens) runs through Nov 30; from Dec 1 standard pricing is $4/$20. Batch and Flex double too ($1/$5 → $2/$10), and Priority jumps $3.60/$18 → $7.20/$36. By Google's own example, a 50M-in / 10M-out month moves from $200 to $400 — budget for it, or push bulk jobs through Batch before month-end.
An infostealer now has an LLM appraise its victims
Cisco Talos dissected VOLTA, an infostealer that ships stolen data to a model via OpenRouter and prompts it to write a 'target assessment' tiering each victim's valuables low / medium / high. Its default is Claude Opus 4.6 at temperature 0.2, falling back to Kimi K2 then Gemini 2.5 Flash on a refusal — a resilience pattern Talos calls standard design for AI-wired crimeware.
YC Labs set AI agent swarms loose in Minecraft and Mindustry
YC's research labs ran multi-agent swarms inside two games to watch coordination emerge; the agents cooperated in places and 'drowned in bureaucracy' in others. It's an open, reproducible sandbox worth a look if you're prototyping multi-agent orchestration and want to see exactly where it falls apart.