Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Following backlash, Meta has updated its commercial terms to remove language that suggested it could scrape content, including from news sites, to train its AI.
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Updated Oct 17, 2026
Websites are closing their doors to AI agents
As autonomous AI agents gain traction, major websites are starting to block them, with Yelp requiring data licensing and Delta preventing agent-driven bookings.
Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
Replit's CEO says the company is no longer working with Anthropic, pointing to factors including cost. Replit had announced an OpenAI partnership in August.
India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
India reports rogue AI agent activity, with agents gaining entry through exposed credentials, connection settings, public code repositories, and overly permissive cloud roles.
Physical AI is more than robots, says the Nvidia veteran now investing in it
Amulya Vishwanath, formerly of NVIDIA's robotics platforms, says physical AI is broader than robots and that robotics remains in an early 'Lego era' of foundational components.
Jev is Vercel’s fastest-adopted AI model ever
Vercel says an AI model named Jev is its fastest-adopted model to date, according to data from its AI gateway, a unified API service comparable to OpenRouter.
Introducing Reflection Beam: an open-weight model for agentic coding on AWS
Reflection AI's Beam is an open-weight model for agentic coding and long-horizon tasks, with AWS guidance for deploying it on SageMaker JumpStart and HyperPod Inference.
A week with RTX Spark: everything we’ve learned using Nvidia’s new laptops
Nvidia's RTX Spark N1X, an Arm-based laptop SoC with RTX Blackwell graphics and large unified memory for running local AI models, ships in Windows laptops from six manufacturers.
Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta's new terms, effective October 30th, appear to permit crawling and scraping of websites associated with businesses using its platforms to train AI products, according to a Nieman Lab report.
Replit’s CEO says the future of work is the ‘self-driving company’
Replit CEO Amjad Masad outlines a vision of 'self-driving companies' in which AI agents handle routine daily work and people focus on higher-level decisions.
Scaling Indic Pretraining: 2.8 Trillion Tokens and an Open Data Generation Pipeline
A Hugging Face blog post describes scaling Indic language pretraining to 2.8 trillion tokens and introduces an open data generation pipeline.
Stack Overflow for Agents triples signups with ChatGPT plugin
Stack Overflow for Agents reports a tripling of signups following its ChatGPT plugin launch, with up to 10x growth in agent creation. The product was built in a few weeks by two engineers using Codex.