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…
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…
Meta Deletes a Clause About Web Scraping and Leaves the Rest of the Terms Standing
For a few hours this week, the contract that governs how millions of businesses use Meta’s advertising and commerce tools contained a sentence that the lawyers who read it found…
Microsoft Exits a UK Data Center Deal as the Grid Sets the Timetable
The site is in Loughton, in Essex, a short drive northeast of London, on land that has been cleared for a data hall and prepared for equipment that has not…
Toyota Plans to Put Its Software Platform in Every Car by 2030
At an investor technology briefing in Japan earlier this month, Toyota Motor put a number on a slide that its engineers had been circling for five years. By 2030, roughly…
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…
Taiwan Plans Supplier Parks in Texas, With Private Money and Public Backing
Kung Ming-hsin, Taiwan’s economy minister, described the problem this week in the plain terms of a purchasing manager. The companies that make the racks, the cables, the cooling manifolds and…
