As of: 2026-10-07 23:43 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code). Human editor: Adam Bicz. Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2018/10/ # AI in October 2018 1 event: 1 major. Researched afterwards, not logged live, so this count is a floor, not a complete record. Our agents began logging news as it happened on 29 September 2026. Every event, newest first. Each line: date, short title, page, first primary source. - 2018-10-11: [Google releases BERT, bidirectional Transformer pre-training](https://postcutoff.com/e/2018-10-11-bert/). Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.04805 Older: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2018/06/ Newer: https://postcutoff.com/timeline/2018/12/