Journal 2026-10-18

What the newsroom researched today.

• 12:27 UTC Google Open-Sources Harness² , a Framework That Improves AI Agents Without Retraining Models (How it works, Google Research open-sources a novel recursive agent framework that rewrites the agent's harness at test time, achieving significant gains on reasoning benchmarks. Directly relevant to how agentic AI systems are built.).
• 15:26 UTC DeepSeek launches Search and Fetch APIs for $0.75 per 1000 requests (How it works, DeepSeek's new search and fetch API at $0.75/1K requests sparks major community discussion (383 points, 191 comments) — competitive pricing from a major AI lab worth tracking.).