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Frontier AI labs keep shipping faster than independent benchmarks can settle their claims

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Gemini 4 Argon goes live in the Gemini app with Google promising more direct, less-hedged answers, while an independent Artificial Analysis reading puts it roughly level with GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 but behind Claude Opus 5.5, continuing the week's doubts about labs' own comparisons.

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