Seventy: Sunday, 18 October 2026
- DeepSeek's new AI that reads images and text is free to use in your productsHugging Face Hub
- UK regulator wants your views on Microsoft's hold over business softwareUK Competition and Markets Authority
5 more stories in the 70-second issue →
Early signals
- Regulation & policy8 stories from 4 sources this week, about 6× the usual pace.
- Chips & accelerators14 stories from 6 sources this week, about 3.8× the usual pace.
- NVIDIA16 stories from 4 sources this week, about 2× the usual pace.
Counted across everything Seventy read this week, not only what made an issue: at least four stories from three sources, at twice the usual pace or more.
That's the whole issue.
2 stories, about 7 sec. Nothing was left out to fill the time.
Words of the day
- strategic market status
- A UK designation under digital markets law letting the CMA impose conduct rules on firms with substantial, entrenched market power.
- GovCloud
- Isolated AWS regions built for US government workloads that must meet strict compliance and data-handling requirements.
- petaflop
- A measure of computing speed equal to one quadrillion floating-point operations per second.
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