OpenAI Tops $850 Billion Valuation
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec discusses OpenAI’s recent mega-funding round that valued the company at $852 billion. Plus, Anthropic blames the accidental release of internal source code behind its Claude coding assistant on human error. And, it’s launch day for Artemis II as NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the moon’s vicinity.
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| 0:00.0 | Bloomberg Audio Studios. |
| 0:05.0 | Podcasts Radio News. |
| 0:12.0 | Bloomberg Tech is live from coast to coast, |
| 0:15.6 | with Caroline Hyde in New York |
| 0:17.5 | and Ed Lovello in San Francisco. |
| 0:22.2 | This is Bloomberg Tech. I'm Tim Steneveck in New York. Coming up, Open AI closes one of the |
| 0:28.7 | biggest funding rounds in history. We're going to have the details. Plus, Anthropic accidentally |
| 0:33.8 | releases internal source code behind its Claude Coding Assistant. |
| 0:40.3 | And today is launch day for Artemis II. |
| 0:42.7 | We are on the ground at Kennedy Space Center. |
| 0:44.6 | We're going to get you the latest. |
| 0:47.5 | First though, a check on the markets. |
| 0:53.0 | Tech stocks in the green, along with other U.S. stocks, this as optimism grows, |
| 0:55.4 | that the war in the Middle East may be nearing a conclusion. Look at what we see right here on the big board. The NASDAQ wondered off to a |
| 1:00.8 | pretty strong start for the quarter, but this does come after a relatively bad quarter, |
| 1:06.8 | where it fell 6% out of correction territory, though, we should note. Also also the s mp 500 up 9 tenths of 1% |
| 1:13.6 | following a decline in the most recent quarter of 4.6% oil still above a hundred dollars a barrel |
| 1:20.2 | this is brent crude up 101 66 is where we are down 2% but talk about a tough quarter for Brent Crude, |
| 1:28.3 | up a whopping 70%. |
| 1:31.3 | We got a great program coming up. |
| 1:33.3 | Investors are a little nervous when it comes to stocks, |
| 1:36.3 | but still higher on this first day in the quarter. |
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