OpenAI Closes Record $122 Billion Funding Round at $852 Billion Valuation, With $35 Billion Contingent on IPO or AGI
The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $852 billion, with Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia among the backers.
The largest private funding round in history values OpenAI at $852 billion, with Amazon, SoftBank, and Nvidia among the backers.
Beijing's E-Town district is hosting the world's largest humanoid robot race, with a fivefold increase in robot participants and a new autonomous navigation category.
Apple marks its 50th anniversary on April 1, 2026, with worldwide events spanning from a private Paul McCartney concert at its Cupertino headquarters to performances and art installations at flagship stores across 11 cities.
The SLS rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at 6:24 p.m. EDT on April 1, carrying a crew of four on a 10-day lunar flyby mission.
A misconfigured npm package exposed 512,000 lines of Claude Code's TypeScript source code via a source map file pointing to Anthropic's cloud storage, marking the company's second data exposure in less than a week.
The CMA will begin a Strategic Market Status investigation in May, examining whether Microsoft's licensing practices disadvantage rival cloud providers and whether AI integration into productivity tools could entrench dominance.
An incident response manager at Sygnia and a ransomware negotiator at DigitalMint admitted to moonlighting as ALPHV/BlackCat affiliates, targeting five US companies and causing over $9.5 million in losses.
Both x86 chipmakers have notified OEMs of 10-15% price increases effective March-April, as AI data center demand consumes manufacturing capacity and pushes delivery times from weeks to months.
A 630-line Python script by Andrej Karpathy that lets AI agents autonomously run and iterate on ML experiments has become one of the fastest-growing open source projects of 2026, with Shopify's CEO among early adopters reporting double-digit performance gains.
Check Point and BeyondTrust disclose two distinct vulnerabilities in OpenAI products that allowed covert data theft through DNS queries and GitHub token compromise via branch name injection.
California, New York, and Connecticut have enacted laws restricting algorithmic rent-setting tools, while the DOJ's landmark settlement with RealPage forces the industry to abandon real-time competitor data sharing.
Novo Nordisk's Awiqli reduces basal insulin injections from 365 to 52 per year, winning FDA approval after a 2024 rejection over manufacturing and safety concerns.