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AI news on October 18, 2026 · Sunday

57 stories — deduplicated across sources, ranked by significance, every source cited.

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce

Policy·TechCrunch AI +1·18h agoTW

AI agents chasing a $465 train refund invented excuses, leaked medical data, and spammed an MP's office

Research·The Decoder +1·1d agoTH

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft without any human help

Models·The Decoder·22h agoT

ModelsGemini 4 Argon

Two German courts now hold Google liable for what its AI overviews say

Opinion·The Decoder·1d agoT

Anthropic consults law firms to set fair negotiation norms before AI agents start cutting deals

Policy·The Decoder·1d agoT

America’s $10tn AI infrastructure boom is starting to fray

Other·Financial Times +1·1d agoFH

Anthropic gives outside AI watchdog “employee-like” access

Products·Ars Technica·18h agoA

Google Open-Sources Harness2, a Recursive Agent Harnessing Framework

Open Source·MarkTechPost·1d agoM

Meta Says Claude AI Tool Triggered No Kings Instagram Suspension

Models·Bloomberg Technology·11h agoB

Inside Andreessen’s Growing Political Influence

Products·Bloomberg Technology·20h agoB

AI agents have bad taste in long-term decisions and a new benchmark proves it

Research·The Decoder·1d agoT

Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data Platform for Physical AI

Products·MarkTechPost·1d agoM

Consumer Apprehension Grows as US Retailers Adopt AI-Assisted Pricing Tools

Products·KTVN +1·1d agoKU

Hybrid Reasoning Agents: 35–55% fewer tokens and up to 2.6× faster inference

Hardware·Hacker News·14h agoH

vllm v0.32.0

Open Source·GitHub Releases·1d agoG

LLM analyzed 150k Reddit posts to identify side effects of unapproved new GLP-1

Products·Hacker News·18h agoH

Hyper Optimizing Kimi K3 in vLLM

Open Source·Hacker News·22h agoH

DeepSeek search and fetch – $0.75 per 1000 successful requests

Models·Hacker News·1d agoH

DeepSeek’s new AI model talks less, so a coding task costs 20 cents

Models·Martin Cid Magazine·1d agoM

Giving AI a “crystal clear” view of the materials world

Other·MIT News·1d agoM

Show HN: Pi-cowboy – use Codex, Claude Code, OpenCode as subagents

Models·Hacker News·19h agoH

AI Could Reshape White-Collar Employment by 2030—and Wages May Be the Bigger Risk

Policy·CEOWORLD magazine·1d agoC

As the NPU market, a low-power artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor, grows, leading Korean con..

Hardware·매일경제·1d ago매

China Drives Coordinated Growth in Intelligent Computing and Advanced Storage for AI Era

Hardware·Alwihda Info·1d agoA

TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web

Opinion·MarkTechPost·17h agoM

OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty

Opinion·Wired AI·1d agoW

How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models

Research·MarkTechPost·1d agoM

Data Centers Have a New PR Plan: Your Kid’s Field Trip

Hardware·Wired AI·1d agoW

If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?

Opinion·Hacker News·14h agoH

Torvalds use Claude for bottleneck fix, but race discovered

Models·Hacker News·19h agoH

Python's binary wheels and supply chain attacks

Other·Hacker News·19h agoH

World Bank says 'small AI' could transform developing countries

Policy·Hacker News·20h agoH

Show HN: DocuMemory – Persistent memory and context for AI coding tools

Products·Hacker News·21h agoH

AhnLab announced on the 18th that it introduced artificial intelligence (AI)-based security solution..

Hardware·매일경제·1d ago매

Show HN: Sphinx – a hook that quizzes you on your AI's code before shipping

Opinion·Hacker News·1d agoH

Norfolk uses artificial intelligence to handle thousands of non-emergency calls

Hardware·WTKR·1d agoW

Global economy set for AI-driven surge, FT survey suggests

Other·Financial Times·1d agoF

AI boom sustains Korea's growth despite global headwinds: IMF official

Other·The Korea Times·1d agoT

British Airways: Filming Crew W Meta Glasses Could Get Your Tickets Cancelled

Other·Hacker News·17h agoH

How the Fed Is Quietly Inflating the AI Bubble While Hiking Your Electric Bill

Opinion·Hacker News·18h agoH

There is a platform where artificial intelligence (AI) finds the technology needed for companies, an..

Products·매일경제·1d ago매

Opinion | Do you know where AI information comes from, Mr. Secretary?

Opinion·The Boston Globe·1d agoT

From vision systems to robotic dogs, local industry leaders share thoughts on automation and AI

Other·Daily Inter Lake·1d agoD

GE Vernova vs. Caterpillar: Which Has More Exposure to the AI Power Build-Out?

Other·Yahoo Finance·1d agoY

[COVER STORY] Korea focuses on AI majors while global universities rewrite rules of education

Other·The Korea Times·1d agoT

Creativity versus artificial intelligence: 3 crises shaking the world of literature

Hardware·صوت الإمارات·1d agoص

Men Can't Stop Faking How Much They Know About AI

Opinion·Hacker News·18h agoH

Namecheap just seized and disabled all my domains

Other·Hacker News·18h agoH

Starlink Gateway Station Serving Ukraine Targeted in Arson Attempt in Lithuania

Other·Hacker News·21h agoH

Why metal detecting is booming in the age of social media and AI

Opinion·BBC·1d agoB

Florida woman uses Claude as her diary. The diary tipped off the FBI

Models·Hacker News·1d agoH

Chinese AI platform 'hatched plan for terrorist attack on London Underground'

Products·Metro.co.uk·1d agoM

Singing, Dancing and Getting Dumped by A.I. on Korean TV

Other·The New York Times·1d agoT

What do we need most in the age of AI?

Opinion·The Korea Times·1d agoT

A 'Ludicrously Ugly' Bridge Is Exhibit a That Britain Has Lost Its Mojo

Other·Hacker News·15h agoH

EPA backtracks on claims US has phased out toxic PFAS compounds

Other·Hacker News·18h agoH

The Brain Sandwich

Other·Hacker News·1d agoH