A post-money valuation above €21 billion, led by Samsung Electronics, with BlackRock funds and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg joining. Mistral is sticking with open weights, and that's the part worth noticing.
Roughly 10,000 agents, 88 hours, 130 billion tokens: OpenAI shows a smooth flow can break down in finite time. Then comes the accusation that an Anthropic researcher was pushed off the author list.
Roughly 500,000 authors are getting $3,000 per pirated work. Now that the money is moving, publishers and agents are turning up with claims — including on books whose rights reverted years ago.
Konstantin Ryabitsev added up what the kernel servers spend on crawlers. The answer: across five machines, 14 cores run continuously just to render Git commits as HTML — more compute than all legitimate access combined.
Jakub Pachocki published an essay calling for voluntary slowdowns and stating that no lab has solved alignment and monitoring well enough to keep scaling responsibly. Written by the person who runs research at OpenAI.
In a blog post, OpenAI's finance chief lays out the numbers she'll likely be taking to investors: a billion weekly users, 2.5 million businesses — and a research team burning 3.1 agent-workdays for every human workday.
A phone video was too big to publish. Rather than uploading it somewhere, Willison asked Claude Fable 5.1 for a browser tool that runs FFmpeg via WebAssembly — five presets, and the command line for each one on screen.
With version 1.30.0 of the ant CLI, agents, skills, environments, memory stores, and deployments can be described as files in your repo and synced with the API in one command. A lockfile remembers what already exists. If you know Terraform, you'll feel right at home.