OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Round, Now Valued at $852 Billion
The largest private funding round in history pushes OpenAI close to a trillion-dollar valuation. Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank lead the charge.
Simon Willison on Lenny's Podcast: 'Four Parallel Agents and I'm Done by 11 AM'
The most influential AI blogger talks about agentic engineering, dark factories, and why experienced developers benefit most from AI agents.
Anthropic's Wild March: Two Leaks, Five Outages, 14 Launches
Anthropic just had the most turbulent month in company history. A look back at a March that had everything: a Pentagon fight, two data leaks, and record growth regardless.
512,000 Lines of Claude Code: What the npm Leak Reveals About Anthropic's Future
A forgotten source map file exposed Claude Code's entire codebase. What's inside is at least as fascinating as the leak itself.
Qwen 3.5 Omni: Alibaba's Open-Source Model Handles Text, Image, Audio and Video at Once
Alibaba just dropped Qwen 3.5 Omni — a multimodal model that processes 10 hours of audio, speaks 113 languages, and even does voice cloning. And it's fully open source.
LiteLLM Ditches Delve - the Fallout from the Supply Chain Attack
Following the malware attack on LiteLLM, the startup cuts ties with compliance provider Delve. A whistleblower brings new allegations of faked audits.
Microsoft Makes Claude Review GPT's Work in New Copilot Feature
Microsoft's new Critique feature is remarkable: GPT drafts the response, Claude checks it for errors. Two AI rivals working together in one product.
Mistral Raises $830 Million for a Data Center Near Paris
French AI company Mistral secures $830 million in debt financing to build its own data center south of Paris. European AI sovereignty doesn't come cheap.