A River of News

AI headlines, Saturday, October 17, 2026

6 items. Times are UTC.

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    Meet Kyutai REKI: The 2.4B VLA Model Bringing Efficient Memory to Robot Manipulation MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq

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    Your Office Isn’t Spy Proof The Information (paywall) by Abram Brown story

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    DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq story

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    20 Jev Alternatives: The Decision Models Taking On TypeSafe in 2026 MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq

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    StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context MarkTechPost by Michal Sutter story

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    Perplexity Open-Sources SPACE, a Firecracker MicroVM Sandbox for AI Agents MarkTechPost by Asif Razzaq