Replit drops Anthropic, NIST curve seeds, Claude Code review - October 17, 2026
Replit says it has dropped Anthropic, Claude traces the origin of NIST's elliptic curve seeds, India reports rogue AI agents in live systems, and the FBI warns of AI-cloned candidates.
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Replit is no longer working with Anthropic, CEO says
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/replit-is-no-longer-working-with-anthropic-ceo-says/Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-originsHow the Claude Code team does code review
https://claude.dev/blog/solving-code-review-at-anthropic/India becomes the latest country to report rogue AI agent activity
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/india-becomes-the-latest-country-to-report-rogue-ai-agent-activity/Scammers clone candidates' voices to steal cash and voter data ahead of 2026 midterms, FBI warns
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/16/usa-2026-midterm-election-scams/Fake Arch Linux AUR packages exploit typos to run malware with root privileges
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/16/arch-linux-aur-malware-yay-paru/Apple: Strengthening App Review Guidelines Against Nonconsensual Intimate Imagery and Bait-And-Switch Apps
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=vvzx6culJev is Vercel's fastest-adopted AI model ever
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/jev-is-vercels-fastest-adopted-ai-model-ever/90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks
https://www.mercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/Waymo's robotaxis are headed to Canada
https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/16/waymos-robotaxis-are-headed-to-canada/Sign-off