Around the Horn Digest: Everything That Happened in AI Today (Wednesday, April 1, 2026)
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Generative AI
OpenAI closed a record $122B round at an $852B valuation while investors fled to Anthropic on the secondary market, Oracle fired ~25,000 people to fund AI data centers, Anthropic raced to contain a massive Claude Code source leak, Q1 2026 venture funding hit $297B (an all-time record), and a Science study proved sycophantic AI is making users worse.