Tech Trends News Update Morning Brief — Sunday, October 18: Websites Close Their Doors to AI Agents, DeepSeek's Cheap Coding Model, Meta Backs Down on Scraping Terms

Sunday's Morning Brief leads with The Verge's reporting that major websites are shutting out AI agents: Yelp allows only agents that pay for its data, Delta blocks agent ticket booking, and JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab block account access over security, while Shopify and partner retailers open a paid, permissioned path. DeepSeek releases V4.1-Flash-1017 under an MIT license, claiming a DeepSWE score ahead of Claude Opus 5 at a fraction of the cost. Meta removes commercial-terms language critics said allowed AI training on publishers' sites. Plus Replit makes OpenAI its default, Apple tightens App Store rules on AI-generated intimate images, Anthropic's quantum circuit research, and Monday's SpaceX Bandwagon-5 launch to watch. Hosted by Maya.