OpenAI's Record $122B Raise, Claude Code Leak, and the AI Investment Landscape

OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation

TLDR: OpenAI has secured the largest private funding round in history, valued at $852 billion, with backing from SoftBank, Amazon, Nvidia, and Andreessen Horowitz. This cements its position as the most valuable private company on the planet, at least for now.

OpenAI Just Became the Most Valuable Private Company Ever

Anthropic Accidentally Leaked Claude Code's Full Source Code via npm

TLDR: Anthropic inadvertently published the full source code of Claude Code to npm, triggering over 8,000 GitHub DMCA takedowns within 48 hours of the leak being discovered. It is one of the more remarkable operational security incidents at a frontier AI lab.

OpenAI Just Became the Most Valuable Private Company Ever