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DeepSeek released a 1017 update to its MIT-licensed V4.1 Flash with large vendor-reported agentic gains, and added search and fetch APIs that run free inside rival harnesses until November 1. Anthropic's own workforce report shows junior hiring collapsing and review time growing, while Replit's CEO says OpenAI is now the default model on his platform. Meta pulled business-terms language that let it use site content for AI training, and Cody Wilson's "AI-made gun" looks more like a policy flashpoint than a capability jump.