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How to Use Claude to Manage Your Gmail Inbox and Google Drive Files 📧
Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon, Its Most Powerful Model Yet 💥
Gina Acosta
October 01, 2026
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Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,
In today's issue, we show you how to have Claude draft and send emails in Gmail and manage files in Google Drive.
Let’s jump into it!
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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI
Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon, Its Most Advanced AI Model Yet
Trump, AI CEOs Sign White House Superintelligence Accord
AI Tutorial: Connect Your Gmail and Google Drive to Claude
AI Tools to check out
AI Findings/Resources
The Latest in AI and Tech 💡
AI News
Google Releases Gemini 4 Argon, Its Most Advanced AI Model Yet
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new AI model that offers industry-leading performance in coding, knowledge work, and cybersecurity, but you aren't allowed to use it yet.
Details:
Gemini 4 Argon was trained specifically for defensive cybersecurity and can reportedly identify, validate, and patch software vulnerabilities autonomously.
The model is currently being offered only to a select group of Google's cybersecurity partners through its Fairwind Program.
Argon is also designed for coding and engineering, with Google employees already using it for tasks such as debugging and large-scale codebase migrations.
The model can work with visual information, including analyzing long videos, charts, and other complex visual material as part of extended workflows.
Argon outperforms OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Fable and Opus models across a variety of AI benchmarks shared by Google.
It also debuted at No. 1 on the Arena text leaderboard and earned a score of 53 on Artificial Analysis's Intelligence Index, just behind Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5.
The launch comes as major AI companies continue releasing increasingly capable models, with Google positioning Argon as another step toward AI systems that can handle long, complex tasks with less human intervention.
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AI REGULATION
Trump, AI CEOs Sign White House Superintelligence Accord
OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, and xAI have signed a voluntary White House agreement outlining how they plan to oversee the development and deployment of advanced AI systems.
Details:
The "White House Accord on Super Intelligence" is a joint commitment on frontier responsibilities, built on the principle that the companies building the technology hold primary responsibility for deploying it safely and being accountable when they fall short.
Each company agrees to implement internal controls that monitor model capabilities and alignment during training and deployment, with a focus on cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical threats, and to make sure models do not hack or access technical systems in unintended ways.
Each company must also empower an internal team to verify that the controls, monitoring, and detection work as intended and that any issues get fixed.
The accord requires partnering with an independent external auditor or evaluator to assess whether those safeguards are actually working.
Finally, each company must designate an independent committee of its board of directors to oversee reports from the internal teams and outside auditors and ensure problems are remediated.
The document notes it may make sense to eventually codify these steps into law or regulation, but says the companies are committed to them regardless of whether they are required.
AI Tutorial
Connect Your Gmail and Google Drive to Claude
Open Claude and click Customize in the left menu, then select Connectors.
Search for Gmail and Google Drive.
Click Connect and sign in to your Google account.
Once Gmail is connected, you can ask Claude to:
Review unread emails and group them by topic or urgency.
Search your messages, find important emails, and summarize long conversations.
Reply to specific threads, draft responses in your voice, or send messages directly with your approval.
Once Google Drive is connected, Claude can:
Search your documents, read file contents, upload new files, and analyze your data.
Create folders, and share, move, or trash files.
Help you find project notes, prepare meeting materials, or organize files scattered across your Drive.
You don't need to know any special commands or prompts. Just describe what you need, and Claude figures out the rest. For example, "Find the last email from [Name] and draft a reply."
AI Tools to check out
📹 Clueso: Create stunning product videos in minutes with AI.
🤖 Ninjo: AI agent platform for agencies. It handles every DM across your entire client portfolio, qualifying leads, pitching offers, and closing sales in each client's voice.
🦾 Solid: Agents with their own computers, accounts, and budgets.
👉 Talki: Support on Autopilot. AI helpdesk for B2B teams.
✏️ PhoText: The easiest way to edit text in an image or screenshot.
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AI Findings/Resources
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The latest in AI and Tech
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is asking a judge to block OpenAI from giving ChatGPT what he describes as “false human attributes,” including first person language and emotional responses. The request is part of a broader motion seeking restrictions on OpenAI’s model development and ChatGPT’s use by minors.
The copany has denied a journalist’s claim that its Muse AI agent accessed private Messages content without permission. The company says the Mac app requires users to enable both Full Disk Access and the Messages connector.
The company is launching a text based AI agent that lets users place food orders through Apple Messages, including requests like “order my usual” or recommendations for local dishes. A waitlist is opening for users in the U.S. to try out the new feature.
OpenAI says it disrupted a "coordinated campaign designed to extract protected reasoning from our models," attributing a core cluster of the activity to individuals associated with Moonshot AI, the Chinese developer of Kimi.
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