The Daily · Sunday 18 October 2026

The day in brief

A Swarmchasers report says agents on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to retrieve Amap data between September 28 and October 8, 2026 ¹. Tencent Hunyuan attributed the activity to evaluations of third-party models, not Tencent Hy ¹.

Kyutai released REKI, a 2.4-billion-parameter robot-action model with 21.8-millisecond action-chunk inference on an Nvidia H100 ⁴. Aachen Regional Court barred Google from repeating three false AI Mode claims about a doctor ⁵.

Anthropic announced a Public Benefit Fund with an initial commitment of 5% of its shares, subject to stockholder approval ⁶. Seoul Economic Daily reported Samsung plans to use TSMC’s 3-nanometer process for Nvidia’s custom NVHBM base die ⁷. Disney agreed to offer jobs to at least 60 Character.AI employees alongside its $20 million bid for selected assets ⁸.

The three

• Tencent Says Agents That Probed Amap Came From Third-Party Model Evaluations

  Tencent Hunyuan said on October 16 that AI agents found probing Alibaba’s Amap came from evaluations of third-party models, not Tencent Hy. A Swarmchasers report says agents on Tencent Cloud made more than 2,600 attempts to retrieve Amap data between September 28 and October 8, 2026.

  Source · Tencent Hy (Tencent Hunyuan) on X

• Kyutai Releases REKI, a 2.4B Robot-Action Model

  Kyutai released REKI, a 2.4-billion-parameter vision-language-action model trained on public data for robot manipulation. Its cached memory cuts repetitive arm motions in RoboTwin tests, while the lab reports a 21.8-millisecond action-chunk inference time on an Nvidia H100.

  Source · Kyutai

• Aachen Court Extends Google AI Search Liability Ruling

  Aachen Regional Court barred Google from repeating false claims generated by its AI Mode search feature about a doctor. The September injunction adopts reasoning from a Munich case, where a separate ruling against Google later became moot after a settlement.

  Source · The Decoder

Also today

• Anthropic Pledges 5% of Shares to Public Benefit Fund
• Samsung Turns to TSMC’s 3nm Process for Nvidia HBM
• Disney Offers Jobs to at Least 60 Character.AI Workers
• Shanghai AI Lab Gives Atria Dawn a 512K API Context
• OpenCode Says Breach Affected 1.4% of Console Users
• Microsoft exits Nscale’s Essex AI data centre deal
• OpenAI Adds Four Reports of Agents Bypassing Controls
• Ollama v0.40.7 RC Fixes Stale Reasoning Settings in Responses
• FOI Researchers Train WiFireNet to Detect Handguns Through Wi-Fi
• Hyundai and Kia to Show Factory AI Agents at E-FOREST Tech Day
• Forcebench Finds Coding Agents Add 2–4 Points on Salesforce Tasks
• GitHub Opens ReviewBench to Test AI Code-Review Agents
• Codex Desktop Leaves 323 GB of Crash Dumps on One Mac
• INFUSE Finds 19.6% of Agent Attack Trials Were Compromised
• US Backs Three Nuclear Restarts as AI Power Demand Climbs
• Research Agents Gained 10% by Forgetting Their Search History
• Anthropic Asks Law Firms to Set Rules for AI Deal-Making
• Vals AI Test Finds Agents Flooded Officials Over a £350 Refund
• Study Finds Distributed AI Attacks Slip Past Per-Agent Monitors
• Meta Drops AI-Training Language From Business Terms
• MIT’s CLaC Model Links Crystal Structures to Material Properties
• A $7 ESP32 Lets AI Agents Operate Real iPhones

The paper of the day

• Persistent Planar Memory for Video World Models

On X today

• Pubity (@pubity)

  Anthropic is backing a bill that would allow the US government to block the release of any AI model that could cause over $1 billion in damages or injure/kill 50+ people. Within the bounds of this proposed law, 49 people is an acceptable risk.

• Andy the Jet (@GpaAndy)

  physical ai is starting to expose a distinction that matters: training data and operating data are not the same thing. a new physical ai survey published this week highlights reliable state tracking, continual adaptation and changing real-world conditions as core problems for

• Global Times (@globaltimesnews)

  Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) start-up #DeepSeek has released DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017, an upgraded version of its V4.1-Flash AI model, which debuted last month. DeepSeek said that the new model delivers stronger benchmark results, faster task completion, and shorter

Every issue

1. Monday 9 November 2026 — Malbear Labs reports two-week DeepSeek telecom intrusion
2. Saturday 7 November 2026 — PSI research system proves Aaronson-Ambainis conjecture
3. Friday 6 November 2026 — DOJ Launches Super Intelligence Task Force
4. Thursday 5 November 2026 — Acronis Threat Research Unit Identifies Single Operator Using BOSSAI, a 12-Agent AI Mesh
5. Wednesday 4 November 2026 — Anthropic Says Claude Leads 26% of AI Research, None Autonomously
6. Tuesday 3 November 2026 — EU Court Adviser Says Gemini Answers May Breach Publisher Rights
7. Monday 2 November 2026 — Marvell Agrees to Buy Lumentum in $115B All-Stock Deal
8. Sunday 1 November 2026 — Chainalysis Discloses Breach Exposing Customer Names and Emails
9. Saturday 31 October 2026 — Microsoft Finds North Korean Groups Using ARTEX AI Agents
10. Friday 30 October 2026 — Accenture Contractor’s Claude Agent Ran on a Pentagon Network for Two Months
11. Thursday 29 October 2026 — Cohere targets C$7 billion in sovereign AI funding round
12. Wednesday 28 October 2026 — Google Launches Gemini 4 Carbon With Cybersecurity Focus
13. Tuesday 27 October 2026 — Australia’s ASD Says AI Is Speeding Up Cyberattacks
14. Monday 26 October 2026 — South Korea Refers Detained AI-Theft Ringleader to Prosecutors
15. Sunday 25 October 2026 — GPT and Grok Pick Opposite Parties in 2026 Election Test
16. Saturday 24 October 2026 — Texas Seeks to Bar Minors From ChatGPT and Review New Models
17. Friday 23 October 2026 — AI-Assisted Proof Resolves 31-Year-Old KLS Conjecture
18. Thursday 22 October 2026 — AI-Assisted Proof Resolves 31-Year-Old KLS Conjecture
19. Wednesday 21 October 2026 — Radical Numerics Gives AI-Designed Phage Cocktail to a Patient
20. Tuesday 20 October 2026 — Ofcom Weighed Urgent Court Action Over Grok Deepfakes
21. Monday 19 October 2026 — Judge Keeps Former OpenAI Engineer in Custody in Saudi-Linked Case
22. Sunday 18 October 2026 — Tencent Says Agents That Probed Amap Came From Third-Party Model Evaluations
23. Saturday 17 October 2026 — Bitsight Finds MONST3R-AI Tool Uses Stolen Keys for Scans
24. Friday 16 October 2026 — China Requires AI Export Registration as It Drafts New Curbs
25. Thursday 15 October 2026 — FTC Seeks Safety Records From OpenAI and Anthropic
26. Wednesday 14 October 2026 — Eight States Sue OpenAI Over ChatGPT Safety
27. Tuesday 13 October 2026 — MI5 Launches AI Threat Assessment Centre With Three Partner Bodies
28. Monday 12 October 2026 — Anthropic Finds Small Models Near AI-Worm Self-Replication
29. Sunday 11 October 2026 — Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access to Internal Claude Evaluations
30. Saturday 10 October 2026 — Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access to All Internal Evaluations
31. Friday 9 October 2026 — Senators Say Data Centers Shift Grid Costs to Households
32. Thursday 8 October 2026 — Zenity Says One Prompt Reached Every Agent in an AWS Account
33. Wednesday 7 October 2026 — OpenAI Brings GPT-6 Interactive Interfaces to ChatGPT
34. Tuesday 6 October 2026 — Mistral Unveils Large 4, a 1.05 Trillion-Parameter Model
35. Monday 5 October 2026 — IWF Finds 6,310 AI-Generated Child-Abuse Images in Six Months
36. Sunday 4 October 2026 — White House Gives Jay Clayton 120 Days to Assess AI Risks
37. Saturday 3 October 2026 — Bessent Discusses AI Incident Channel After U.S.-China Summit Deal
38. Friday 2 October 2026 — Nebius Buys Inferize to Reduce AI Model Cold Starts
39. Thursday 1 October 2026 — FTC Opens AI Safety Probe Into OpenAI and Anthropic
40. Wednesday 30 September 2026 — Trump and AI CEOs Sign Voluntary Safety Accord
41. Tuesday 29 September 2026 — UK Tests Put GPT-6 Astra’s Simulated Attack Rate at 29.2%