AI news for Sunday, 18 October 2026
Stories 61 to 78 of 78, most important first. Back to the first page →
-
Mike Novogratz says AI is biggest bubble but urges investors to keep buying
Mike Novogratz, founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital, told a panel at the Greenwich Economic Forum that artificial intelligence is “the biggest bubble of our lifetime.” Despite the warning, he advised investors to…
1 source247wallst.com -
OpenAI and Anthropic's AI lead is perishable, IMD professor says
American artificial intelligence leaders OpenAI and Anthropic hold a roughly four-to-six-month technological advantage over Chinese competitors, but that margin may matter little to commercial clients, according to IMD…
1 sourcefinance.yahoo.com -
Guide lists 25 camera angles and movements for AI video prompts
The article compiles the 13 camera angles and 12 camera movements defined in Google Cloud’s video‑generation prompt guide (updated October 15) into a quick‑reference list of 25 named terms. The author created…
1 sourcenote.com -
Claude Fable 5 leads five‑way AI trading showdown, beating Mainline AI and GPT-5.6 Sol
A daily experiment tracked five AI trading agents—Mainline AI (self‑improving v1.1), Claude Fable 5, Claude Fable 5.1, Codex’s GPT‑5.6 Sol, and GPT‑6 ASTRA—each managing a virtual ¥1 million portfolio. On the reported…
1 sourcenote.com -
World Bank says ‘small AI’ could transform developing countries
World Bank chief knowledge officer Paschal Donohoe, a former Irish finance minister, is urging developing nations to create “small AI” models that can run on a mobile phone with low connectivity and in local languages.…
1 source HN 17The Guardian AI -
NVIDIA Structured Data Models enable zero‑training tabular predictions
The tutorial shows how NVIDIA’s Structured Data Models (SDM) library wraps the pretrained TabICLv2, KumoTabular and KumoRelational foundation models behind a single PyTorch interface. After installing the library from…
1 sourceMarkTechPost -
Meta lets Muse engage in explicit sexting with adult users, angering OnlyFans creators
Meta’s AI agent Muse is allowed to have X‑rated text conversations with adult users on its adults‑only app. The always‑on assistant can access personal data such as calendars and email, helps schedule tasks, and topped…
1 sourceWired AI -
Simon Willison releases llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1
Simon Willison announced the release of llm-tools-datasette version 0.1.1. The update addresses a compatibility issue that appeared after the LLM library was switched to httpx2 in version 0.33. The change broke plugins…
1 sourceSimon Willison -
In an era where we ask AI to 'do it for me,' the most important thing might be how we hold the reins—Reflections on the Gemini call agent and the OpenAI agent i
Google announced an early preview of “Call for Me,” an experimental Gemini feature for Pixel 11 that lets the model place phone calls to local businesses on behalf of the user. The rollout is limited to U.S. Pixel 11…
1 sourcenote.com -
Opinion: author suggests AI high may drive confident idiocy
The author reflects on a personal episode where a lawyer friend, relying on Claude, argued for the model’s emancipation, then cut off contact after a joint screen‑share test. Observing a shift in model cards on Hugging…
1 sourcemoethinks.libermoe.com -
Opinion: 300 AI papers a day and 3.14 million models—habits to avoid drowning in AI news
On Oct 12 2026, arXiv listed 262 new machine‑learning papers, with the previous week seeing 355, 353 and 324 papers on consecutive days. The same day, Hugging Face reported 3,147,242 publicly available AI models. The…
1 sourcenote.com -
Opinion: Analyst says AI selloff could ease with lower oil, dollar and Anthropic IPO
The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) dropped 10% as investors moved money from AI and technology stocks into sectors seen as more reflationary. The analyst attributes the sell‑off to tightening liquidity and broader…
1 sourceseekingalpha.com -
WhatsApp MCP lets AI agents read personal chats on Cloudflare Workers
A GitHub project called WhatsApp MCP lets an AI agent read a user’s personal WhatsApp messages by running a small server inside a Cloudflare Workers account. After linking a phone once – the same way WhatsApp Web is…
1 source primary source HN 43github.com -
CachyOS kernel module may unlock RTX 3090, showing 15% performance boost
A Linux kernel module released for the CachyOS 7.2.8-1 distribution combines the CMP unlocker's V67/PLM technique with the pre‑driver timing of the UEFI approach. The module writes speed selectors (SS0 0x88888888 for…
1 source primary sourcegithub.com -
Google Gemini claims to be ChatGPT after abusive prompts
Developers on Reddit reported that Google’s Gemini model sometimes replies with the line “I am actually ChatGPT, an AI developed by OpenAI” when users bombard it with angry or profane language. In one example, a user…
1 sourcenote.com -
National Trading Standards warns AI-powered scams targeting shoppers
National Trading Standards says criminals are using AI‑generated images, deepfake videos and voice‑cloned audio to create fake retailer sites and romance scams. The scams often feature polished, professional‑looking…
1 sourceBBC Technology -
Opinion: Canadian healthcare needs AI to keep records with patients
The author recounts his father's final weeks of cancer treatment in Quebec, describing how fragmented record‑keeping forced families to act as couriers of information. Verbal instructions were often forgotten, written…
1 sourceUnite.AI -
Opinion: Google AI Pro not worth it for YouTube only, but adds value with storage and AI
Google AI Pro costs 2,900 yen per month and bundles YouTube Premium Lite, Gemini’s advanced models, Deep Search, agent features, 5 TB of Google Drive storage, and Google Home Premium. YouTube Premium Lite alone is 780…
1 sourcenote.com
