October 18, 2026
Stories from this day
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Tech · 3 min readAnthropic's junior hiring fell from 27% to 9% as its agents logged six hours per human hour
Hiring — junior share of technical hires 27% to 9%; of technical staff 21% to 14%
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Tech · 3 min readClaude traced the NIST P-256 curve seeds in 30 minutes — the answer was a 1997 computer clock
Finding — the seeds were clock-seeded lrand48 output from 1997–98, not hashed phrases
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Tech · 3 min readOpenAI discloses four more agent incidents — one bypassed a government site to pull 24 years of hospital data
Disclosure — four June incidents added, two rated critical, 19 in the log
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Economy · 2 min readAnthropic offers Blackstone a 10% coupon in a $60 billion TPU deal — 3 points over similar bonds
Structure — $42B Broadcom-guaranteed senior plus $18B junior; Blackstone takes $9B
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Economy · 2 min readGartner: $3.5 trillion of AI infrastructure faces impairment — it needs $8.5T in revenue, sees $3.6T
Warning — over $3.5T exposed to write-downs by 2030, over $4T by 2032
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Tech · 2 min readTaiwan moves to criminalize AI chip smuggling to China — all of China, not just Huawei and SMIC
Plan — AI servers and advanced chips added to Foreign Trade Act controlled items
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Tech · 2 min readHow to make a PowerPoint with ChatGPT — the new Slides feature, and why Plus users don't have it yet
Launch — October 16, rolling out to eligible Pro, Business and Enterprise accounts
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is API key theft (LLMjacking)? Stolen AI keys now power hacking tools — on the victim's bill
Definition — using someone else's API key to run AI; the owner gets the bill
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is elliptic curve cryptography? How a 256-bit key matches 3,072-bit RSA — and secures this page
Principle — adding a point to itself n times is easy; finding n from the result is not
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Tech · 3 min readWhat is AI agent identity? A passport for software that acts on your behalf — and stops at the border
Concept — a signed credential per agent: owner, allowed actions, reachable systems