My mom is more into AI than me.

SUN 18 OCT 2026 / 7 stories / 2 min read

Models & Labs 1Tools & Products 1Creators & Marketing 1Code & Agents 3Research & Science 1

7 stories worth your time from 18 October, across Tools & Products, Code & Agents, Research & Science and more.

Tools & Productsr/artificial My mom is more into AI than me. From r/artificial: My mom is more into AI and all that stuff way more than me, I actually rarely use it. She uses it for everything, and I mean everything… now she wants to bring me to the…

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Code & Agentsr/artificial

Hello! How good is the best AI at coding today (17/10/26)?

From r/artificial: I would like to know the opinion of senior professionals, but any opinion is welcome. I haven't had the opportunity to try the latest AIs. I want to know how good they…
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Research & Sciencer/MachineLearning

What is wrong with AI writing - ICLR edition [D]

From r/MachineLearning: I'm sure many of us are slogging through impenetrable AI writing as we finish ICLR reviewing. I'll try to create an anonymized version from a paper I'm reviewing, though…
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Code & AgentsTechCrunch

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

From TechCrunch: A Meta spokesperson insisted that the updated terms did not reflect a change in the way Meta crawls the web.
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Creators & MarketingThe Guardian

Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6 - podcast

From The Guardian: From his remote property in rural Texas, the millionaire businessman Michael Samadi is plotting a new kind of civil rights movement – for the welfare and protection of…
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Code & AgentsSimon Willison

Inline rendering with document .currentScript

From Simon Willison: Inline rendering with document .currentScript Lean Rada describes a neat trick that takes advantage of the document.currentScript property. You can use that to drop in a…
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Models & LabsNVIDIA

RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive

From NVIDIA: NVIDIA RTX Spark laptops are now available, bringing NVIDIA Blackwell RTX graphics, up to 128GB of unified memory and the full NVIDIA AI platform to slim, premium…

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My mom is more into AI than me.

Hello! How good is the best AI at coding today (17/10/26)?

What is wrong with AI writing - ICLR edition [D]

Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns

Black Box: The Chatbots | What I Saw at the Double Six Ranch | Ep 6 - podcast

Inline rendering with document .currentScript

RTX Spark Ignites Global Celebration as New Windows PCs Arrive

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