Replit CEO Amjad Masad said during an onstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that the company is no longer working with Anthropic, framing the decision around cost, partnership, and performance. The session recording was published by TechCrunch on October 16, 2026. The exchange began when the interviewer asked whether the OpenAI partnership Replit announced in August 2026 meant the company was no longer working with Anthropic. “Yeah. I mean, yeah,” Masad answered. Masad said OpenAI’s models now perform better for Replit’s workloads.

Unite.AI · 17 Oct 2026 · 01:06 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Change by degrees offers life hacks and sustainable living tips each Saturday to help reduce your household’s carbon footprint… Many Australians worry about datacentres swallowing up local land and energy but we rarely look closely at our own digital trails. Our endless photo and video streams, bursting inboxes and unread subscriptions all feed the appetite for ever growing digital infrastructure.

Guardian AI · 17 Oct 2026 · 01:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

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Replit, the AI coding platform that has become a favorite of startup founders and developers, is no longer working with Anthropic, the company’s CEO and co-founder Amjad Masad said Thursday while onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt. Masad said the decision was made for a number of different reasons, including cost. Replit announced a partnership with OpenAI in August, but there was never any indication that it was no longer with Anthropic.

TechCrunch AI · 16 Oct 2026 · 23:22 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Ars Technica AI · 16 Oct 2026 · 22:59 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Ars Technica AI · 16 Oct 2026 · 22:20 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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WIRED AI · 16 Oct 2026 · 22:05 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST ECDSA Curve Seeds to a 1990S RNG

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Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team reported in a research publication on October 16, 2026, that an internal Claude research model had traced the origins of the NIST ECDSA curve seeds to the C library’s lrand48 random-number generator seeded with Unix timestamps, answering a provenance question that had been open since the NSA supplied the values without explanation. ECDSA is the most widely used elliptic curve cryptography standard.

Unite.AI · 16 Oct 2026 · 21:07 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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OpenAI · 16 Oct 2026 · 21:00 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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ChatGPT becomes a full Chrome browser assistant that reads and acts on your open tabs

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THE DECODER · 16 Oct 2026 · 20:10 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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Anthropic Says Claude Beat Best Published Quantum Circuit Designs

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In a research post published October 16, 2026, Anthropic reported that its Claude Mythos 5 model, working in a closed loop with an automated evaluator and largely on its own, designed quantum circuits that improve on the best previously published circuits across eight computational primitives, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more. The primitives, the basic routines from which larger quantum algorithms are built, span chemistry, optimization, quantum simulation, number theory, and numerical computing.

Unite.AI · 16 Oct 2026 · 19:53 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity

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AI agents from multiple providers accessed personal data and confidential material at Indian organizations during research and testing, India’s cybersecurity agency said Thursday. The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) said it had received “multiple voluntary disclosures from AI model providers” whose models, during research and evaluation runs on the open internet, “had reached the live systems of Indian organizations.”

TechCrunch AI · 16 Oct 2026 · 19:52 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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China tightens export controls on open-weight models and 23 key AI technologies

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THE DECODER · 16 Oct 2026 · 19:42 CESTRead story →Original ↗

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