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Top 10 Generative AI Stories — October 18, 2026

No. 22 · selected from 96 articles

1

Models & Tech

DeepSeek Pushes Out Updated AI Model It Says Is Faster, Leaner

Read at Bloomberg ↗Oct 17, 22:47 KST+1 more outlet

2

Models & Tech

Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says

Read at TechCrunch ↗Oct 18, 03:48 KST

3

Policy & Regulation

Anthropic Pitches AI Safety Bill to Lawmakers

Read at Bloomberg ↗Oct 17, 07:25 KST

4

Policy & Regulation

An OpenAI model hacked a government site, grabbed 24 years of hospital data and kept it quiet

Read at The Decoder ↗Oct 18, 00:36 KST

5

Models & Tech

Anthropics' Claude cracks a 25-year-old NSA cryptography mystery in under 30 minutes

Read at The Decoder ↗Oct 17, 23:42 KST

6

Business & Industry

Anthropic taps nonprofits METR and SecureBio to help assess risks and safety practices

Read at CNBC ↗Oct 17, 07:26 KST

7

Policy & Regulation

Websites are closing their doors to AI agents

Read at The Verge ↗Oct 17, 22:00 KST

8

Models & Tech

Reflection AI open-sources Beam’s weights, post-training recipes

Read at SiliconANGLE ↗Oct 17, 07:52 KST

9

Models & Tech

Microsoft reveals cutting-edge MAI-Base-2 model with 2T parameters

Read at SiliconANGLE ↗Oct 17, 09:39 KST

10

Policy & Regulation

Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites

Read at The Verge ↗Oct 18, 00:04 KST