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October 18, 2026 — 12 articles Snapshot updated Oct 18, 11:03 PM CDT

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DeepSeek releases updated V4.1-Flash model it says completes tasks faster
SiliconANGLE Models Oct 18, 5:34 PM CDT

Chinese artificial intelligence startup Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co. Ltd. has released an updated version of its V4.1-Flash model that it says completes tasks faster. DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 arrives a little over five weeks after the company launched the o

Disney agrees to hire the majority of Character.AI’s workforce
TechCrunch Applications Oct 18, 11:30 AM CDT

The filing also says that the “vast majority” of Character.AI employees who were offered jobs at Disney accepted them. However, this is a stalking horse bid, so another company could come forward with a higher offer.

TinyFish Makes Search Free: What It Really Costs an AI Agent to Read the Web
MarkTechPost Developer tools Oct 18, 1:20 PM CDT

An AI agent that reads the web pays 2 kinds of cost. The first is the retrieval charge: what a search or fetch API bills per request. The second is model processing: content passed from retrieved pages into an AI model consumes tokens, while reasoning and generated responses add further costs. TinyF

Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data Platform for Physical AI
MarkTechPost Research Oct 17, 11:06 PM CDT

Voxel51 3.0 merges search, curation, annotation and evaluation of multimodal sensor data into one platform for physical AI teams. It adds Voxel51 Agent with 45+ MCP tools, dataset versioning, and a free self-service tier. The post Meet Voxel51 3.0: A Unified Multimodal Data Platform for Physical AI

How to Make Zero-Training Tabular Predictions with NVIDIA Structured Data Models
MarkTechPost Models Oct 18, 12:56 AM CDT

In this tutorial, we implement Structured Data Models, NVIDIA’s new library that puts several pretrained foundation models for tables behind one PyTorch interface, and use it to make predictions without training. The library wraps TabICLv2 and KumoTabular for single tables and KumoRelational for who