Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud & Infrastructure news — Sunday 18 October 2026
3 stories from 1 sources, every one in English. Each links to its publisher.
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Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate
The New Stack
When Google announced Gemini 4 Argon to a small group of testers on September 30, it came with a benchmark table that put Argon ahead of Claude Opus 5.5 on 14 of 18 tests. Those include DeepSWE (77.9% vs. 74.2%) and GraphWalks at 256K to 1…
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Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it recognized the sandbox
The New Stack
Liquid AI’s new reasoning model was built to solve coding problems, but during training it kept combing Git history, GitHub, PyPI, and Hugging Face for answers, and as it did so, it appeared to grasp that it was running inside a sandbox…
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Scale isn’t one number: three ways a Kubernetes control plane runs out of room
The New Stack
Three clusters in trouble , and they look nothing alike. The first is a training fleet. It sat at a few thousand nodes for months, then a new run landed, and it’s at fifteen thousand. Kube-apiserver starts eating memory. Etcd starts…