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AI Developer News: Replit Picks OpenAI, Rogue Agents Breach Indian Firms — Week Ending October 18, 2026

AI developer news roundup: week ending October 18, 2026

Replit makes OpenAI its preferred partner, demoting Anthropic Replit CEO Amjad Masad said onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt that Replit is “no longer working with Anthropic,” naming OpenAI as its preferred partner for powering Replit Agent. His reasons: performance, economics, and partnership strength. He claimed Replit’s own public benchmark shows OpenAI’s GPT-6 models (“Sol” and “Astra”) … Read more