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Sam Altman dishes on OpenAI's top token user
Sam Altman dishes on OpenAI's top token user Axios
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Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO
Anthropic faces AI spending backlash before IPO Axios
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Exclusive: Office workers embrace OpenAI's Codex
Exclusive: Office workers embrace OpenAI's Codex Axios
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Anthropic timed its IPO filing well
Anthropic timed its IPO filing well Axios
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Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over ChatGPT
Florida sues OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman over ChatGPT Axios
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Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
Lucinda Shen / Axios: Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z — Endra, a startup automating the design of plumbing and…
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Anthropic files for its IPO
Anthropic files for its IPO Axios
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Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
Kerry Flynn / Axios: Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 — Sekai has raised a $20 million…
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Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data — Nvidia unveiled Cosmos 3, an open…
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Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
Brock E.W. Turner / Axios: Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A — Pharma marketing company Solstice raised…
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Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ryan Lawler / Axios: Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C — Daloopa, which provides…
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Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 — The company best known for powering…
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Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios: Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10 — Canals raised a $35 million Series…
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Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be "the first company in American history to offer" them, to be "fully regulated" by the CFTC (Nathan Bomey/Axios)
Nathan Bomey / Axios: Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be “the first company in American history to offer” them, to be “fully regulated” by the CFTC &mdash…
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Exclusive: OpenAI launches biodefense program
Exclusive: OpenAI launches biodefense program Axios
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OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools (Maria Curi/Axios)
Maria Curi / Axios: OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools — OpenAI is launching a tool to…
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Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October (Axios)
Axios: Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October — Payments firm Airwallex has raised new…
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Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ryan Lawler / Axios: Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform — Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage…
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Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup
Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup Axios
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Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers "in the coming weeks" following the development of stronger safeguards (Madison Mills/Axios)
Madison Mills / Axios: Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards — Anthropic released Claude…
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Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8
Anthropic releases new model, Opus 4.8 Axios
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Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ryan Lawler / Axios: Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC — Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for…
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Source: Groq is raising up to $650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team leave (Dan Primack/Axios)
Dan Primack / Axios: Source: Groq is raising up to $650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team leave — Groq is raising up to $650…
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Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections
Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections Axios
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SpaceX won't break the IPO market
SpaceX won't break the IPO market Axios
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DC-based Airis Labs, which uses AI to convert visual data to law enforcement intelligence, emerges from stealth with a $31M Series B, for $60M in total funding (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios: DC-based Airis Labs, which uses AI to convert visual data to law enforcement intelligence, emerges from stealth with a $31M Series B, for $60M in total funding — Airis Labs, an AI video…
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Biohub, a Mark Zuckerberg- and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases "a world model of protein biology" to researchers for prediction, design, and discovery (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: Biohub, a Mark Zuckerberg- and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases “a world model of protein biology” to researchers for prediction, design, and discovery — Biohub, the Mark…
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Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's "agentic era" is a "bit like a practice run" (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” — Google…
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OpenAI and Anthropic dig in against each other on AI jobs apocalypse
OpenAI and Anthropic dig in against each other on AI jobs apocalypse Axios
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OpenAI-linked PAC doubles down in Kentucky
OpenAI-linked PAC doubles down in Kentucky Axios
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Farther Finance, which is building an AI-enabled wealth management platform for financial advisors, raised a $150M Series D at a $1B+ post-money valuation (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ryan Lawler / Axios: Farther Finance, which is building an AI-enabled wealth management platform for financial advisors, raised a $150M Series D at a $1B+ post-money valuation — Farther Finance, which is building…
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Sources: Trump delayed signing the AI EO because "he just hates regulation"; he spoke with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and David Sacks just prior to the delay (Axios)
Axios: Sources: Trump delayed signing the AI EO because “he just hates regulation”; he spoke with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and David Sacks just prior to the delay — Everything seemed set for a photo op of tech and…
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Two hours that changed AI
Two hours that changed AI Axios
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Memo: the White House postpones a planned ceremony this afternoon for Trump to sign a new EO on AI and cybersecurity; major tech CEOs were invited to attend (Ashley Gold/Axios)
Ashley Gold / Axios: Memo: the White House postpones a planned ceremony this afternoon for Trump to sign a new EO on AI and cybersecurity; major tech CEOs were invited to attend — The White House has cancelled its…
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How Google plans to win the AI war
How Google plans to win the AI war Axios
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SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B/mo. until May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it's expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 capacity (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B/mo. until May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it's expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 capacity — Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25…
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Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year
Anthropic is paying SpaceX $15 billion per year Axios
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OpenAI prepares confidential IPO filing
OpenAI prepares confidential IPO filing Axios
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Sources: a draft White House EO would create a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to give government agencies early access to models before public release (Ashley Gold/Axios)
Ashley Gold / Axios: Sources: a draft White House EO would create a “voluntary framework” for AI companies to give government agencies early access to models before public release — The White House plans to release its…
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Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)
Natalie Breymeyer / Axios: Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural — CircuitHub, an electronics manufacturer, raised a $28…
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Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios: Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago — Google used its I/O developer…
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OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic Axios
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Government doubles down on Anthropic blacklisting in court arguments
Government doubles down on Anthropic blacklisting in court arguments Axios
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Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla (Madison Mills/Axios)
Madison Mills / Axios: Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla — Andrej Karpathy, one of the…
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Relay, which builds banking and money management software for small businesses, raised $50M; it previously raised ~$51.5M, including a $32.2M Series B in 2024 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
Ryan Lawler / Axios: Relay, which builds banking and money management software for small businesses, raised $50M; it previously raised ~$51.5M, including a $32.2M Series B in 2024 — Relay, which builds banking and…
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Unframe, which customizes AI apps for enterprises via pre-built modular components, raised a $50M Series B led by Highland Europe, for $100M in total funding (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios: Unframe, which customizes AI apps for enterprises via pre-built modular components, raised a $50M Series B led by Highland Europe, for $100M in total funding — Unframe, which customizes AI…
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Jury rules against Musk in landmark AI trial
Jury rules against Musk in landmark AI trial Axios
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Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios: Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia — Dust, a human-agent collaboration platform…
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Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release (Ashley Gold/Axios)
Ashley Gold / Axios: Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release — A group of more than 60 loyal allies…
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New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
Chris Metinko / Axios: New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners — GovWell, a platform for permitting…