Google Releases Gemini 4 Carbon And Decision 1, Claude Gets Sheets & Ring Launches A Home Drone

Today's AI news: Google opens up Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, to AI Ultra subscribers and the paid Gemini API, after two weeks with cybersecurity teams only. It also launches Gemini Decision 1, a model that writes nothing and just picks answers, scoring up to a thousand questions at once for ten cents per million input tokens. Claude gets Whiteboards, Sheets and Data. xAI's Grok Bot 1.0 turns its agents into shared teammates in Slack, Teams and meetings. Telegram lets bots turn any message into a small interactive app. And Amazon's Ring launches Ring Robotics: a $250 indoor drone and a $1,000 patrolling rover. Chapters: 0:00 Today's AI News 0:25 Gemini Carbon And Decision 1:19 Claude Whiteboards Sheets Data 2:01 Grok Bot 1.0 2:36 Telegram Message Apps 3:10 Ring Robotics Blend Roundup 2026-11-11 https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2120187753329791341 https://x.com/claudeai/status/2120206365759094857 https://x.com/bot/status/2120582957782200586 https://x.com/durov/status/2120148866469376463 https://x.com/ring/status/2120169654656327764 Google opens up Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, and launches a model that doesn't write a single word. It just decides. Claude gets whiteboards, sheets and data. Grok Bot 1.0 joins your team's meetings, any Telegram message can now be an app, and Amazon's Ring wants to fly a drone around your living room. Here's today's AI news. Google has made Gemini 4 Carbon, its strongest model, widely available. Two weeks ago, only vetted cybersecurity teams could use it. Now it's in the Gemini app for AI Ultra subscribers and in the paid Gemini API, at the same price as Argon until December, when it doubles. Google says Argon is still the right choice for most work, with Carbon saved for the hardest problems. Then today, Google launched Gemini Decision 1, a model that doesn't write anything. It just picks answers: yes or no, multiple choice, or a score against a rubric. It can handle a thousand questions at once, about text, images, audio or video, and it costs ten cents per million input tokens, with output free. Handy for routing agents, sorting content and safety checks. Anthropic has started rolling out three new features in Claude. Whiteboards lets you plan with Claude on a shared board. It can turn a spoken plan into a timeline, group notes by theme and draft action items. Sheets builds spreadsheets from a prompt, with formulas and drop-downs, and shows you every cell it changed. And Claude Data answers questions about your company's databases and turns the results into narrated data stories. Whiteboards and Sheets are in beta, and all three are on paid plans, across web, desktop and mobile. Another day, another few apps Claude would quite like to replace. xAI has released Grok Bot 1.0, which turns its AI agents into shared teammates. A team can now share a Bot in Slack or Microsoft Teams, and invite it to meetings on Google Meet, Zoom or Teams, where it answers in the chat and posts a summary afterwards. Bots can also spot work and pick it up without being asked. They learn as they go, but anything a teammate teaches a shared Bot has to be approved by its owner first, and what it learns about you stays private. It's available on Team and Enterprise plans. Telegram says any message can now become an app. Bots can send small interactive widgets inside a chat bubble, under four kilobytes each, that update in place and can even take payments through Telegram's built-in crypto wallet. Telegram is pitching it as a new canvas for AI agents, and it ships a ready-made prompt that teaches an AI model to build the widgets for you. For now, they only work in private chats with a bot, not in groups. So your next chatbot reply might be a game, a form or a checkout. Amazon's Ring has launched Ring Robotics, with two security cameras that move. The Drone Cam is a two-hundred-and-fifty-dollar indoor drone that sits in its dock with the camera off, then flies patrol routes around your home, or straight to wherever an alarm goes off. Its AI Pilot maps your rooms and avoids obstacles. It ships in January, though it still needs FCC approval. For businesses, the thousand-dollar Rover Cam rolls around on patrol with a 4K camera on a periscope, and ships in December. Ring first showed a home drone back in 2020. This time, apparently, it actually flies.