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Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says

Over the weekend, Masad clarified that OpenAI would replace Anthropic as its default model provider. Claude will still be available to customers on the platform.

  • Replit terminates partnership with Anthropic CEO Amjad Masad says
  • Cost, partnership, and performance cited as reasons for decision
  • Replit users can still access Anthropic models on platform

·techcrunch.com

How to Talk to a CTO About AI Without Sounding Like a Vendor

Framing technical depth for executive conversations. What CTOs actually evaluate: risk, cost, and competitive edge — not attention mechanisms.

  • Focus conversation on business outcomes, risk, and cost.
  • Ask CTO about most expensive repeated process with no competitive advantage.
  • Propose automation solution with defined rollback condition.

·dev.to

AI Drug Discovery in 2026: How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Medicine

Originally published on The Daily Flare . KEY TAKEAWAYS AlphaFold's 2024 Nobel Prize validated AI's central role in biology, with over 200 million protein structures freely available to researchers.

  • AI drug discovery awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2024
  • AI-designed drugs enter human trials by 2026
  • AlphaFold predicts protein structures and interactions

·dev.to

1+1 is always 2: Bringing determinism back to AI-Assisted engineering

Maxim Magaziner explores how AI-assisted engineering, stronger testing, automation, and technical leadership can help teams build software faster without sacrificing quality.

  • AI agents generate functional applications from simple prompts
  • Determinism achieved through path-scoped rules in large codebases
  • LangGraph ensures consistent multi-step AI workflows

·jpost.com

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