Episode Details

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

In this episode:

• Anthropic proposes putting 5% of its shares in a public-benefit fund
• Best PCs for Local AI: What to Buy Before Canceling Your AI Subscription
• A Plex honeypot was hijacked after an unauthenticated exploit chain surfaced
• Three new Aurora model names pop up in OpenAI's API
• DeepSeek puts web search on the API meter at $0.75 per 1,000 calls
• BAND co-founder says developers split coding, testing and review across agents