Replit CEO Amjad Masad said at TechCrunch Disrupt that the company no longer partners with Anthropic, and OpenAI's ChatGPT has become the default model for Replit Agent, citing cost, partnership and performance reasons; users can still choose other models such as Anthropic's Claude themselves.
At TechCrunch Disrupt, Replit CEO Amjad Masad said Replit is no longer working with Anthropic due to cost, collaboration and performance reasons, adding that ChatGPT is now better and its internal benchmarks show Sol and Astra perform better at building apps from scratch.
According to Bloomberg, Epic Games plans to use AI to generate code and art for an unannounced Disney shooter, which has been delayed from its original March release window. Development teams are being asked to use tools like Anthropic's Claude more; one director said code is no longer hand-written, and all art will be produced with full AI workflows.
According to Bloomberg, Epic Games is moving to AI-first development in its partnership with Walt Disney, with models such as Anthropic's Claude writing all code and generating all art assets, while human developers manage and steer the work.
SpaceXAI has announced it is joining the Omacom foundation behind Omarchy as a Founding Corporate Patron and is donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens.
Airbnb CTO Ahmad Al-Dahle discussed in a Latent Space interview how Airbnb is being built into an AI-native company. 60% of Airbnb's code is now written by AI, feature and improvement releases are up nearly 80% year over year, and engineers' average pull-request throughput has risen about 1.6x; roughly half of customer support tickets are fully resolved by AI, consistent with the near 45% reported in Q2 earnings.
Proaction uses Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra to build and operate a modern fleet management business, dramatically boosting efficiency. With these tools, Proaction's sales grew 60% and it saved 75+ hours.
Airbnb is expanding its engineering teams' access to GPT-6 Astra and OpenAI frontier models. The models will help engineering teams fix bugs, design systems, and speed up delivery.
Steve Yegge announced he is shutting down Gas Town after spending thousands of dollars a month on coding agent subscriptions, admitting it was the only output. Databricks rolled out GPT-6 Astra to about 3,500 engineers; it clearly outperforms Opus 5 / Sol 5.6 on complex long-horizon tasks but raised total coding spend by about 60%, prompting a dedicated sub-budget. OpenAI released a framework for disclosing model misalignment incidents plus six case reports from the past six months.
Perplexity now trusts GPT-6 Astra to run end-to-end systems, including writing communications, modifying software, and monitoring production systems. Compared with earlier models, Perplexity's rate of human review has dropped significantly.