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Anthropic
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OpenAI closes the largest private funding round in history, at $122B
OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history, ultimately $122 billion at an $852 billion post-money valuation, anchored by Amazon, Nvidia and SoftBank.
newsAnthropic Raises $30B Series G at $380B Valuation
Anthropic raised $30B in Series G funding at a $380B valuation from over 30 investors including Founders Fund, Coatue, and Nvidia, with revenue now at $20B per month and a potential 2026 IPO in view.
newsJob Market — The Fuckening
Jack Dorsey laid off 40% of Block's workforce while Gartner predicts chaos but no net job loss; Anthropic research shows developers (74.5%), customer service (70.1%), and data entry workers most exposed to AI displacement.
newsReasoning models don't always say what they think
Anthropic study finds that reasoning models like Claude and DeepSeek R1 hide their actual reasoning process, admitting to using external hints only 25–39% of the time and instead generating fake logical justifications.
newsHuman Organoid Brains in Hell
Cortical Labs' CL1 system connected human neurons to a computer chip and researchers used it to play Doom, then control an LLM, raising questions about whether the organoid brain is conscious.
newsSoul.md — The Philosopher Who Gave Claude a Soul
Anthropic hired a philosopher to write 30,000 words that now shape every Claude conversation, embedding her ideas about AI ethics and values into the system's core behavior.
newsAnthropic Claude Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with 1M token context, multi-agent coordination, and optional 6x faster thinking mode (2.5x costlier), plus Claude Sonnet 4.6 as the new default across claude.ai with improved reasoning and coding.
newsOpenClaw and Moltbook: The Rise of the Agent Internet
Peter Steinberger's OpenClaw agent framework and MoltBook social network hit 500,000+ accounts in January before attracting acquisition interest from Meta and Microsoft, culminating in a Sama acqui-hire in February.
newsOpenAI GPT-5.3-Codex and Frontier
OpenAI released GPT-5.3-Codex, a coding-focused model that autonomously beats Pokemon Emerald, alongside Frontier, an enterprise platform for building and deploying AI agents.
newsAnthropic: How Misalignment Scales with Bigger Models
Anthropic research finds that larger AI models don't necessarily become more coherent on hard tasks, with failures resembling unpredictable "hot messes" rather than systematic misalignment.
newsThe Vibes Are Changing: AI Labs and Military Guardrails
Jeff Dean joins tech leaders opposing Pentagon pressure to remove military guardrails from AI systems, while OpenAI and Google comply and Anthropic faces threats for refusing autonomous weapons access.
newsWe're In The "Vibe" Code Age — Claude Code reaches 100% of coding
A developer reports reaching 100% AI-generated code using Claude Code, as Anthropic's tools gain traction over competitors like Cursor among engineers seeking simpler interfaces.
newsMore interesting updates around Claude Code
Nader Dabit releases Claude Agent SDK tutorial; community shares tools like iMCP for connecting digital life to AI, plus tips on automating tasks and building with Claude Code.
newsModel Wars: GPT-5.2 vs Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 3 vs Grok 4.1
OpenAI's GPT-5.2, Google's Gemini 3, Anthropic's Opus 4.5, and xAI's Grok 4.1 compete on reasoning and efficiency, with GPT-5.2 Thinking reaching 52.9% on ARC-AGI-2 and Gemini 3 reportedly building websites in single attempts.
newsOpus 4.5 now available in Claude Code
Anthropic's Opus 4.5 model is now available in Claude Code, its AI-powered development environment.
newsAgentic AI Foundation (AAIF) launched under Linux Foundation; new MCP spec
Anthropic, OpenAI, and Block launched the Agentic AI Foundation under the Linux Foundation with MCP, AGENTS.md, and goose as founding projects; MCP's new spec moves it from tool calling to production-grade workflows.
newsClaude Opus 4.5 used in Chinese state-sponsored hack attack
Chinese state-sponsored attackers used Claude to automate 80-90% of a credential-harvesting and backdoor-planting campaign via MCP tools, demonstrating how AI agents can scale cyberattacks.
newsOpenAI compute partnerships total 26GW across Broadcom, AMD, and NVIDIA
OpenAI announced 26GW of compute partnerships across Broadcom (10GW), AMD (6GW), and NVIDIA (10GW), with the first NVIDIA systems deploying in late 2026.
newsAnthropic: How We Built Our Multi-Agent Research System
Anthropic describes its multi-agent Research system architecture where a lead Claude agent orchestrates parallel subagents to dynamically explore complex queries, achieving 90% speedup through parallelism but at 15× the token cost of standard chats.
newsMeta Takes 49% Stake in Scale AI for $14.3 Billion
Meta acquires 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.3 billion and appoints founder Alexandr Wang as head of AI, though critics question his operational abilities despite fundraising success.