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Anthropic studied its own AI-heavy workplace and found fewer junior hires, more people managing Claude, and more meetings. That is a preview worth taking seriously, and worrying about.
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.
OpenAI, Meta, and Google sell agents that roam the web for you — and banks, airlines, and retailers are quietly slamming the door.
DeepSeek’s V4.1-Flash-1017 checkpoint posts 77.0 on DeepSWE and opens Search/Fetch APIs — a cheaper agent stack behind one key.
Four weeks after TypeSafe’s Jev, MarkTechPost counts at least twenty decision-model knockoffs — the category is real.
StepFun drops Step 5 Preview as open weights — 600B MoE, 27B active, 1M context — another sparse long-horizon agent model on Hugging Face.
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.
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.
Brazil’s Itaú is rolling ia.i toward its whole customer base by year-end — with IARA governance holding the regulated bank together.
MIT Technology Review sits down with Samuel King — the Stanford researcher whose generative model proposed blueprints for microscopic viruses.
NVIDIA’s RTX Spark pitch: GB10 SoC, up to 128GB unified memory, and local coding agents that don’t need a cloud VM for every loop.
Ex-NVIDIA robotics marketer Amulya Vishwanath says we’re in robotics’ “Lego era” — blocks first, ChatGPT moment later.