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.
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AIOct 17, 2026MarkTechPost
DeepSeek Just Released V4.1-Flash-1017, Scores 77.0 on DeepSWE, Opens Search API
DeepSeek’s V4.1-Flash-1017 checkpoint posts 77.0 on DeepSWE and opens Search/Fetch APIs — a cheaper agent stack behind one key.
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, 2026MarkTechPost
StepFun Releases Step 5 Preview Open Weights: 600B MoE, 27B Active, 1M Context
StepFun drops Step 5 Preview as open weights — 600B MoE, 27B active, 1M context — another sparse long-horizon agent model on Hugging Face.
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, 2026MIT Technology Review
Roundtables: A Conversation With the Creator of AI-Designed Viruses
MIT Technology Review sits down with Samuel King — the Stanford researcher whose generative model proposed blueprints for microscopic viruses.
AIOct 16, 2026NVIDIA Developer
Code, Test, and Deploy on One Machine with NVIDIA RTX Spark
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.
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
Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it
Same Equity conversation, wider lens: Vishwanath’s Techable bets treat physical AI as robots plus materials and life sciences.
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.