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3 stories, newest first.

1. 01Business18 Oct 2026

   Replit Agent picks OpenAI over Anthropic

   Replit made OpenAI the preferred partner powering Replit Agent. At TechCrunch Disrupt, CEO Amjad Masad said the decision came down to cost, partnership and performance, and that OpenAI's Sol and Astra models build apps from scratch better on Replit's benchmark. On Oct 17 he clarified on X that Replit remains model agnostic and users can still choose Anthropic's Claude models. TechCrunch notes most customers stick with the default, and Masad said Replit had been, until recently, a top-five Anthropic customer; enterprise grew from about 2% of revenue last year to about 15% this year. Caveat: a person familiar with the partnership told TechCrunch it is still in place.

   Source: Amjad Masad (Replit CEO) on X (opens in a new tab)
2. 02Business16 Oct 2026

   Open-weight models now run 71.5% of Vercel AI Gateway tokens

   Vercel's October Production Index: open weight took 71.5% of tokens and 23% of spend (4x+ since June); spend ~13x December as price per token fell 47%; Anthropic's spend share fell below half.

   Source: Vercel (opens in a new tab)
3. 03Business13 Oct 2026

   TypeSafe raises $870M at a $7.5B valuation

   a16z led the round for Jev, a model that returns typed, probability-backed decisions instead of chat prose.

   Source: TypeSafe (opens in a new tab)