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Scale AI signed a $100M ceiling contract with the DOD to provide end-to-end services, including its data engine for data preparation and AI model testing (www.axios.com)
1 day ago AI

YouTube plans to expand its likeness detection tech to all Partner Program creators in the next months; creators can opt in by uploading an image of their face (www.axios.com)
2 days ago YouTube

OpenAI says it is developing a “different ChatGPT experience” for teens and plans to use age-prediction tech to bar kids under 18 from the standard version (www.axios.com)
2 days ago

OpenAI and Microsoft say they have signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding for the next phase of their partnership, and are working to finalize terms (www.axios.com)
7 days ago Microsoft

Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military and critical infrastructure, raised a $75M Series C led by Hedosophia (www.axios.com)
11 days ago

The Winklevoss twins have become major GOP donors; a source says they've donated $32M+ since 2017, including $21M to a new pro-Trump and pro-crypto super PAC (www.axios.com)
11 days ago Trump Republican

ProRata.ai, which lets publishers embed custom AI search on their sites with a 50/50 revenue share, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total raised to $70M+ (www.axios.com)
13 days ago AI

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Code.org, IBM, and other companies pledged new commitments for AI in education as part of a White House event hosted by Melania Trump (www.axios.com)
14 days ago Trump Google Amazon Microsoft IBM AI Education

Source: Sierra, which builds AI customer service agents, nears a $350M raise at a $10B valuation, up from $4.5B in October 2024, and is set to top $100M in ARR (www.axios.com)
15 days ago AI

Disney agrees to pay $10M to settle an FTC complaint that alleges Disney failed to designate certain YouTube videos as being made for children (www.axios.com)
16 days ago YouTube

OpenAI details its plan to add guardrails for teens and people in emotional distress in the next 120 days, including routing conversations to GPT-5-thinking (www.axios.com)
16 days ago

In a letter, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson warns Google not to filter or suppress emails sent by Republicans over Gmail; Google says its spam filters are not biased (www.axios.com)
21 days ago Google Republican

Polymarket raised “double-digit millions” from 1789 Capital, which Donald Trump Jr. joined as a partner in 2024; Trump Jr. will join Polymarket's advisory board (www.axios.com)
23 days ago Trump

Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, named by Trump as the first US chief design officer, says he wants to update federal websites to an “Apple Store-like experience” (www.axios.com)
26 days ago Trump Airbnb Apple

Thoma Bravo agrees to buy HR software provider Dayforce for $12.3B at $70 per share, a 32% premium to Dayforce shares before reports of a possible deal (www.axios.com)
28 days ago

FieldAI, which is developing robot “brains”, raised $405M at a $2B post-money valuation from Nvidia and others; FieldAI raised an initial $91M in late 2024 (www.axios.com)
29 days ago Robot Nvidia

An interview with Sam Altman on spending billions on AI infrastructure, wanting Chrome if it's really selling, AI models saturating the chat use case, and more (www.axios.com)
2025-8-15 Interview AI Chrome

Arintra, whose AI medical coding system translates clinical documentation into insurance codes for healthcare providers, raised a $21M Series A led by Peak XV (www.axios.com)
2025-8-13 AI Insurance

GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says he is leaving to “become a startup founder again”; memo: Microsoft is opting not to directly replace the position (www.axios.com)
2025-8-12 Microsoft Startup GitHub

Patreon CEO Jack Conte says the platform paid out $10B+ to creators since its 2013 founding, creators now get $2B+ annually, and there are 25M+ paid memberships (www.axios.com)
2025-8-7

Filings: crypto industry donated $26M+ to Trump's super PAC, MAGA Inc., in H1, including $5M from Blockchain.com; Marc Andreesen and Ben Horowitz gave $3M each (www.axios.com)
2025-8-2 Blockchain Trump

Sources: the US intelligence community persuaded the DOJ that allowing the HPE-Juniper merger was essential to US national security and competing with Huawei (www.axios.com)
2025-7-30 Intelligence

Salient, which uses AI to automate the post-loan origination process for lenders, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a $350M valuation (www.axios.com)
2025-7-29 AI

April, which provides tax tools that embed directly into financial apps, raised a $38M Series B led by QED Investors, bringing its total funding to $78M (www.axios.com)
2025-7-28 Tax

Mark Zuckerberg announces that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will be chief scientist at Meta's new superintelligence lab (www.axios.com)
2025-7-26 Zuckerberg

Meta will end political, election, or social issue ads in the EU from October, like Google, with both citing incoming regulation (www.axios.com)
2025-7-25 Google

Xelix, which uses AI to automate businesses' accounts payable workflows by connecting with ERP systems, raised a $160M Series B led by Insight Partners (www.axios.com)
2025-7-23 AI ERP

OpenAI says ChatGPT users send more than 2.5B prompts globally each day, more than 330M of those are in US, and the platform has 500M weekly active users (www.axios.com)
2025-7-22

Dallas-based iCounter, which uses AI to combat cyber risks, launches out of stealth from Apollo Information Systems with a $30M Series A led by SYN Ventures (www.axios.com)
2025-7-20 AI

North Carolina-based Eton Solutions, which offers wealth management ERP tools for single- and multifamily offices, raised a $58M Series C led by Navis Capital (www.axios.com)
2025-7-20 ERP

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