Replit Makes OpenAI Its Default Model, Ending Its Anthropic Arrangement
Amjad Masad was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt on October 17 when the question of which models sit behind Replit’s coding agent came up, and his answer reversed what the…
Nvidia’s RTX Spark Goes on Sale in Six Cities, With Lines and Few Orders
The queue outside the San Francisco venue on October 17 was the kind that hardware launches are staged to produce. RTX Spark laptops went on sale in six cities the…
The AI Credit Market Puts a Price on Doubt
The bond pays 9.75 percent and matures in 2031, and this week it was quoted at a yield to maturity of 15.78 percent, a level that in most of the…
Anthropic Asks Lawyers to Write the Rules for Agents That Negotiate
The questions arrive at the drafting stage now, before anyone files a claim: how often a software agent should stop and check with the person it works for in the…
Engineer Accused of Hiding a Recorder at OpenAI Asks to Be Released
The filing reached the docket in San Francisco federal court on Friday evening, three days before a hearing on whether Abdulrahman Alfozan waits for trial in custody. The argument inside…
Mercedes and Nvidia Push Their Driving Partnership Into the Next Decade
The word in the joint announcement was “robolimousine.” Mercedes-Benz and Nvidia said on October 16 that they are expanding a partnership that already spans several vehicle generations, and that the…
Replit Says It Ended Its Anthropic Deal. People Close to Anthropic Say It Didn’t.
Amjad Masad had been onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt for most of an hour on Friday when he was asked about the models inside his company’s product. Replit, the coding platform…
AWS Says Its AI Servers Pay for Themselves in Under Three Years
John Felton, the chief financial officer of Amazon Web Services, gave an interview to Axios this week that read as an answer to a question investors have been asking for…
ChatGPT Can Now Drive Chrome Tabs, and OpenAI Is Giving It to Free Users
OpenAI’s post on X went up on Thursday evening, in the flat register the company uses for product news: “We’re bringing the power of computer use to anyone who uses…
Claude Traces the Seeds of NIST’s Curves to a 1997 Clock Reading
For twenty-five years the number sat in a federal standard without an explanation: SEED = C49D3608 86E70493 6A6678E1 139D26B7 819F7E90. From that value, by a procedure published in 2000, the…
