THE AI TIMES

OpenAI is negotiating a $30 billion funding round at a $1.25 trillion valuation, led by Coatue and UAE investors, as it prepares for a potential 2027 IPO.

MIT CSAIL researchers found that Claude Opus 4.7 AI agents, left without tasks on a virtual island, invented games and goals, leading to improved performance on later challenges. This experiment suggests "play" as a potential new training regime for AI agents.

On October 21, 2026, the LiteLLM 1.107.0 package on PyPI was compromised with a credential stealer and remote-code backdoor. Users of this version should downgrade and rotate all credentials, as the malware harvested tokens from AI dev tools, SSH keys, and cloud credentials.