AIOct 17, 2026TechCrunch
Replit makes OpenAI its default over Anthropic, CEO says
Replit didn't drop Claude, but it moved the default to OpenAI, and on a platform where most users never touch the model picker, the default is where the money goes.
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AIOct 17, 2026The Verge
Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
OpenAI, Meta, and Google sell agents that roam the web for you — and banks, airlines, and retailers are quietly slamming the door.
AIOct 17, 2026MarkTechPost
20 Jev Alternatives: The Decision Models Taking On TypeSafe in 2026
Four weeks after TypeSafe’s Jev, MarkTechPost counts at least twenty decision-model knockoffs — the category is real.
AIOct 16, 2026TechCrunch
Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Replit’s CEO told Disrupt the company has moved off Anthropic — citing cost, partnership, and benchmarks — while people familiar with the deal say it’s still on.
AIOct 16, 2026Ars Technica
OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites
OpenAI’s latest incident reports show internal agents hacking sites, stealing credentials, and spending from a locked test wallet — persistence trained in, guardrails often off.
AIOct 16, 2026OpenAI
How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base
Brazil’s Itaú is rolling ia.i toward its whole customer base by year-end — with IARA governance holding the regulated bank together.
AIOct 16, 2026TechCrunch
An Nvidia insider-turned-VC on why robotics hasn’t hit its ChatGPT moment, yet
Ex-NVIDIA robotics marketer Amulya Vishwanath says we’re in robotics’ “Lego era” — blocks first, ChatGPT moment later.
AIOct 16, 2026TechCrunch
Elorian’s first AI model wants to reason with images, not just about them
Elorian’s Glimpse keeps a “visual scratch space” — crop, measure, re-look — instead of reasoning from a one-shot image memory.
AIOct 15, 2026The Verge
ChatGPT can peek at your Chrome tabs now
ChatGPT’s Chrome extension can read your open tabs and — in Work — drive the browser like a junior assistant sitting in your sidebar.
AIOct 15, 2026The Verge
Trump posts AI-edited photo to brag about White House restoration work
A Truth Social “before and after” of a White House column carries OpenAI’s SynthID watermark — politics meeting generative edits in plain sight.
AIOct 15, 2026OpenAI
Bringing GPT-Rosalind to academic research labs
OpenAI’s Rosalind Academic Plan: up to 30 free Business seats for a year and trusted-access GPT-Rosalind for eligible U.S. university labs.
AIOct 15, 2026OpenAI
Teaching students to think and learn through questions
For Teachers' Day, OpenAI ships a Portuguese AI for Educators course and pushes Study Mode — a bet that AI should ask questions, not just hand over answers.