Woman arrested in Philadelphia for blocking an Uber delivery robot

<p>It's October 18th, 2026, and here are nine tech stories you need to know about today.</p><p><b>Woman arrested in Philadelphia for blocking an Uber delivery robot</b><br>Sources: <a href="theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/101354… Verge</a></p><p><b>Anthropic to dedicate 5% of its shares to a public benefit fund</b><br>Sources: <a href="techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/anthropic-says-its-c… grants outside AI watchdog employee-like access</b><br>Sources: <a href="arstechnica.com/ai/2026/10/anthropic-gives-out… Technica</a></p><p><b>Disney agrees to hire majority of Character.AI's workforce</b><br>Sources: <a href="techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/disney-agrees-to-hir… of Saudi OpenAI employee revives spying fears in US tech</b><br>Sources: <a href="yro.slashdot.org/story/26/10/18/0318232/more-d… bill aims to guarantee ownership of purchased video games</b><br>Sources: <a href="theverge.com/policy/1013521/video-game-ownersh… Verge</a></p><p><b>More websites are blocking access to AI agents</b><br>Sources: <a href="slashdot.org/story/26/10/18/1715218/websites-a… to test its European sovereign cloud without the global backbone</b><br>Sources: <a href="infoq.com/news/2026/10/aws-sovereign-cloud-exe…;