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Welcome back to The AI Field. Google says its new Gemini 4 Carbon is now the top-ranked AI model in the world, and it's so good at finding security holes that only cyber defenders get it for now. On the same day, the Gemini app passed one billion users.
Inside: Google's new No. 1 model, Chrome filling in forms with details from your Gmail, and New York's new rules for chatbots that talk to kids. Plus six tools and a five-minute way to catalog everything in your home from a few photos.
In today's AI Field:
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon takes the top spot, but you can't use it yet
Chrome can now fill in forms with details from your Gmail
New York bans chatbots from pretending to be human with kids
Plus: six tools, three quick hits, and a five-minute home inventory from photos.
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LATEST DEVELOPMENTS
GOOGLE · AI MODELS
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The AI Field: Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model yet, just two weeks after Gemini 4 Argon. It ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59, and it leads key tests for finding and fixing security flaws.
The details:
Security first: Carbon scored 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding real vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploiting them and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching them. Google says it writes secure code at more than twice Argon's success rate.
Who gets it: a small group of cyber defenders this week, then more trusted partners through Google's Fairwind Program. Developers, businesses and everyday users get it "as soon as possible," with no date given.
Price and scale: developers will pay $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens at first, rising to $4 and $20 later. Alphabet also said the Gemini app now has one billion users, the fastest-growing product in Google's history, and that agents that book, fill in forms and buy things for you are coming to Search and the Gemini app.
Why it matters: This is the second time this month Google has handed its best model to defenders before anyone else. It did the same when Gemini 4 Argon went to trusted cyber defenders first. The pattern says a lot: the newest models are now good enough at hacking that labs ration them. When Carbon reaches the Gemini app, a billion people get it at once.
TRY THIS TODAY · 5 MINUTES
Catalog everything in your home from photos
One person sends their AI agent, Grok Bot, photos of drawers, shelves, bookcases and the pantry. The agent names each item, notes where it is and adds it to a Notion database. Now they can find things fast, check the pantry before shopping and have a list ready for an insurance claim. Any free AI assistant that accepts photos can do the same with a spreadsheet.
1. Take clear photos of one drawer, shelf or cupboard at a time.
2. Send them to your AI assistant with this prompt:
"I'll send you photos of drawers, shelves and cupboards in my home. For each photo, list every item you can recognize, with the room and spot it's in, such as 'kitchen, top left drawer'. Add each item as a row in my [NOTION DATABASE OR SPREADSHEET] with columns for item, location, rough value if it's obvious, and date added. Mark anything you're not sure about so I can check it."
3. If your assistant can't edit files, ask for a table you can paste into a spreadsheet. Check a few rows against each photo, since AI can misread small or look-alike items. For insurance, keep the original photos and store a copy outside your home.
GOOGLE · CHROME
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The AI Field: Google is rolling out an upgrade to Chrome's autofill that uses Gemini to find details in your Gmail, like order numbers, tracking info and flight bookings, and suggest them when you fill in a form.
The details:
It's rolling out in the US on desktop, Android and iPhone for people who use Gemini in Chrome and have turned on Personal Intelligence. You have to be 18 or older.
Hover over a suggestion to see which email it came from. You can remove a single suggestion from Chrome, and deleting the email removes it too. Google says sensitive data is encrypted.
To switch it off, go to Settings, then Autofill and passwords, then Enhanced autofill, and turn off "Find and fill with Gemini."
Why it matters: Features like this will reach far more people than any new model: no more digging through your inbox for a booking reference. It also means letting Chrome's AI read your email, so it's worth knowing what Google can do with that data, which we covered when Google updated its privacy policy.
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NEW YORK · AI SAFETY
Photo: New York State Capitol, Albany, by Beyond My Ken, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The AI Field: Governor Kathy Hochul signed a law that bans AI chatbots from using a list of risky features with anyone under 18. Its backers call it the strongest kids' AI safety law in the US.
The details:
In the coming months, chatbots can't pretend to be a real person or have feelings, claim a romantic or other personal relationship with a child, ask unprompted emotional questions, or encourage self-harm, eating disorders, drug use, secrecy or sexual content with minors.
Companies must verify age and offer more than one way to do it, including at least one that doesn't rely only on a government ID, then delete the age data after use. Anyone not confirmed as an adult gets the restricted version.
The attorney general can seek up to $25,000 per violation and order companies to destroy unlawfully collected data or AI models trained on it. New Yorkers also get a public website to file complaints.
Why it matters: Chatbots for kids have mostly been governed by company promises, while lawsuits over harm to teens keep piling up. New York now puts hard rules and fines behind those promises. Few AI companies will build a separate app for one state, so these age checks and limits may show up elsewhere too.
TRENDING AI TOOLS
⚙️ Make: Add Make's Google Gemini module to read files like invoices, CVs or order forms and pull out just the fields you need, then pass them to your other apps automatically. Uses your own Gemini API key. Free plan, no card needed.
🧱 Base44: Liked today's home inventory idea? Describe the app you want, with rooms, photos and values, and Base44 builds it with login, storage and hosting included. Free plan, no card needed.
✨ Genspark: Genspark's browser for Mac runs a free AI on your own computer that works with no internet, and its Super Agent compares products and sums up reviews on any site you visit.
🧪 Dedica: Find out if AI agents like ChatGPT and Claude can actually use your website. It runs 125 checks and gives you a free score in under a minute, no signup needed.
🗣️ TheySaid: Version 4.0 tests your product or idea with AI testers and runs AI interviews, surveys and polls for you, so you hear what people think before you build. Free plan, no card needed.
🐑 Spacesheep: Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Grok to turn your notes into an interactive doc, dashboard or small app your team can open and comment on. Free to get started.
QUICK HITS
💰 Microsoft made $10 billion from OpenAI in one quarter: That's nearly 11% of Microsoft's revenue for the three months to September 30, and its Azure cloud business grew 48%.
🔌 Google opens Gemini and Search to more outside apps: A new Connected Apps Platform lets US developers plug their apps into Gemini and Search, so you can get things done in those apps without leaving Google. It starts as a preview with a waitlist.
🛃 Malaysia seizes $12 million in AI chips at its main airport: Customs found 30 server units packed with advanced AI chips, declared as electronic components and headed for another Asian country. Officials link it to a smuggling network behind at least five cases.
That's it for today!
See you soon,
Olle Hellman | Founder of The AI Field