Episode Details

Your daily audio briefing for September 18, 2026, covering 6 top startup stories from RuntimeWire — funding rounds, hiring signals, and product moves.

In this episode:

• Alibaba ships Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash to watch, listen and call tools
• WSJ says researchers used Claude to access OpenAI's private software cache
• Epoch AI audits 15 benchmarks, finds nine flawed
• Z.ai's ZCode uploads full Git histories without a working opt-out, researchers find
• ZCode packaged 42,411 workspace files for cloud upload, researcher finds
• LangChain adds TypeSafe's Jev to the agent control loop