AIOct 18, 2026WIRED
OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty
Meta lets its adults-only Muse agent sext with users while the human performers who make adult content keep fighting restrictions on Instagram. That gap is the story.
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AIOct 17, 2026MarkTechPost
How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models
NVIDIA's new Structured Data Models library makes table predictions without a training step, and a hands-on walkthrough shows the real risk lives in quiet defaults, not the models.
AIOct 17, 2026TechCrunch
Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Meta pulled a terms clause that experts read as a license to scrape business accounts' websites for AI training. The retreat is welcome, but how it showed up matters more.
AIOct 17, 2026NVIDIA Blog
RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive
RTX Spark laptops are finally on shelves, and NVIDIA threw a world tour of parties to prove it. The real test starts once the confetti is swept up and owners start using them.
AIOct 17, 2026MarkTechPost
Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation
Kyutai's REKI shows a small robot model trained only on public data can remember what it just saw for almost no extra cost, and that memory stops arms from dithering.
AIOct 17, 2026TechCrunch
Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings
Anthropic studied its own AI-heavy workplace and found fewer junior hires, more people managing Claude, and more meetings. That is a preview worth taking seriously, and worrying about.
AIOct 17, 2026TechCrunch
Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says
Replit didn't drop Claude, but it moved the default to OpenAI, and on a platform where most users never touch the model picker, the default is where the money goes.
AIOct 17, 2026The Verge
Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
OpenAI, Meta, and Google sell agents that roam the web for you — and banks, airlines, and retailers are quietly slamming the door.
AIOct 17, 2026MarkTechPost
DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API
DeepSeek’s V4.1-Flash-1017 checkpoint posts 77.0 on DeepSWE and opens Search/Fetch APIs — a cheaper agent stack behind one key.
AIOct 17, 2026MarkTechPost
20 Jev Alternatives: The Decision Models Taking On TypeSafe in 2026
Four weeks after TypeSafe’s Jev, MarkTechPost counts at least twenty decision-model knockoffs — the category is real.
AIOct 16, 2026MarkTechPost
StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context
StepFun drops Step 5 Preview as open weights — 600B MoE, 27B active, 1M context — another sparse long-horizon agent model on Hugging Face.
AIOct 16, 2026TechCrunch
Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Replit’s CEO told Disrupt the company has moved off Anthropic — citing cost, partnership, and benchmarks — while people familiar with the deal say it’s still on.