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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.2 With Three Tiers — Matches Human Experts on 70% of Business Tasks
OpenAI has released GPT-5.2 in Instant, Thinking, and Pro variants, reporting the model matches or exceeds human expert performance on 70.9% of business tasks tested — nearly double its predecessor's score. The rollout targets ChatGPT paid subscribers at unchanged pricing.
SpaceX Files Confidentially for IPO That Could Shatter Every Record
SpaceX has submitted a draft registration to the SEC ahead of a planned June listing that could value the company at $1.75 trillion and raise up to $75 billion — more than double the largest U.S. IPO ever recorded.
OpenAI Closes $122 Billion Round at $852 Billion Valuation
OpenAI has completed the largest private funding round in tech history, raising $122 billion at an $852 billion post-money valuation. Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank led the round as the company crosses $2 billion in monthly revenue.
OpenAI Raises $122 Billion at $852 Billion Valuation, Nearing IPO
OpenAI closed the largest private fundraise in tech history, pulling in $122 billion led by Amazon, Nvidia, and SoftBank. The round values the company at $852 billion and includes a $3 billion retail investor tranche — an unusual move for a pre-IPO company signaling how close a public listing actually is.
Rebellions Raises $400M Pre-IPO to Build South Korea's Answer to Nvidia
The Seoul-based AI chip startup closed a $400 million pre-IPO round at a $2.34 billion valuation, bringing its total funding to $850 million. Rebellions designs inference chips that aim to outperform Nvidia on energy efficiency for running AI workloads — not training them.
California Mandates AI Safety Checks for State Contractors in First-of-Its-Kind Order
Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on March 30 requiring AI vendors that sell to California to certify safeguards against bias, illegal content, and civil rights violations. The move puts California directly at odds with the Trump administration's push to deregulate AI at the federal level.
TeamPCP Supply Chain Attack Poisons LiteLLM PyPI Packages
Threat actor TeamPCP compromised LiteLLM versions 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI, deploying a multi-stage credential stealer that harvests cloud keys, SSH tokens, and Kubernetes secrets. Any developer who ran pip install litellm on March 24 during a three-hour window is at risk.
Claude Code's Entire Source Code Just Leaked via npm — 512,000 Lines Exposing Fake Tools, Frustration Detection, and Undercover Mode
A misconfigured npm package shipped with source maps pointing to a publicly accessible zip on Anthropic's Cloudflare R2 bucket. Within hours, 41,500+ GitHub forks preserved the full 1,900-file codebase — Anthropic's second major security lapse in one week.
Axios Hijacked on npm — Malicious Versions Dropped a Cross-Platform RAT on Millions of Machines
A threat actor compromised the lead Axios maintainer's npm account and published two poisoned versions — 1.14.1 and 0.30.4 — that installed a remote access trojan on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The packages were live for roughly three hours before npm pulled them.
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