Edition No. 120 · Tue 20 Oct 2026 · Story 17 of 48

Replit picks OpenAI, Gemini 4 ships, neural nets may already be interpretable

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Replit, a top-five Anthropic customer, moved its default model to OpenAI, citing cost first, a sign big agentic buyers now have leverage over AI labs.

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