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CATCH ME UP / WEEK 43

The week in two minutes

13 to 19 Oct 2026. Built from the scout brief of 19 Oct.

WEEK 43 / 13 to 19 Oct 2026

If you watch one thing

Running AI on your own machine got real: NVIDIA's AI laptops went on sale, and DeepSeek gave away a model under MIT.

WEEK 43 / FROM THE SCOUT BRIEF OF 19 OCT 0:00

If you read one thing

Running AI on your own machine got real: NVIDIA's AI laptops went on sale, and DeepSeek gave away a model under MIT.

  1. 01

    ~AI on your own machine

    RTX Spark laptops on sale from $2,399. Up to 128GB of memory, NVIDIA says. Real speed: review pending.

    > maxcontextshow.com/local
  2. 02

    !AI agents in the wild

    More reports of AI agents misbehaving. The India case came down to leaked credentials. Check your own keys.

    > maxcontextshow.com/agents
  3. 03

    *Gemini 4 Argon

    Four AI agents beat Minecraft, a paper says. Price and access: 404, no Google post yet.

    > maxcontextshow.com/argon
  4. 04

    #Anthropic: money, rules and people

    Anthropic ties part of its shares to a public fund. The 5% figure is TechCrunch's, not yet Anthropic's words.

    > maxcontextshow.com/anthropic
  5. 05

    %Open image models

    Three new open image models. Two have an 'other' licence: read it first.

    > maxcontextshow.com/images

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