The dAIly - Monday, April 6th, 2026
AI News Summary
1. OpenAI's Record $122B Funding — But Shares Struggling
OpenAI closed the largest venture round in history at $852B valuation, yet secondary market investors are struggling to dump ~$600M in shares. Interest is pivoting to Anthropic as confidence cracks appear.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/openai-funding-round-ipo.html
2. Anthropic's Claude Code Source Leak
Anthropic accidentally shipped Claude Code's full source via npm source map — 1,893 files, 517K lines including 53+ tools and unreleased features. Developers quickly mapped the entire codebase.
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-races-to-contain-leak-of-code-behind-claude-ai-agent-4bc5acc7
3. Q1 2026 Venture Funding Shatters Records
Global VC funding hit $297B in Q1 2026, up ~150% quarter-over-quarter, driven by unprecedented AI compute and frontier lab spending.
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/record-breaking-funding-ai-global-q1-2026/
4. Startups Building with AI Agent Teams
Startups like JustPaid used AI agent teams (OpenClaw + Claude Code) to ship 10 major features in one month — work that would take human devs a month+ each. The trend is spreading across Silicon Valley.