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Defakto, which lets enterprises secure automated interactions between internal systems and AI agents or other non-human actors, raised a $30.75M Series B (www.axios.com)
2025-10-26 AI

Austin-based Roller, a provider of venue management software, raised $50M led by Insight Partners, taking its total funding to over $100M (www.axios.com)
2025-10-26

UnifyApps, which lets companies build AI chatbots by connecting SaaS apps and data, raised a $50M Series B led by WestBridge, after a $20M Series A in 2024 (www.axios.com)
2025-10-23 SaaS AI chatbot

Internal memo and a source: Meta is cutting ~600 jobs out of several thousand within its Superintelligence Lab, including in its FAIR unit, to cut bureaucracy (www.axios.com)
2025-10-22

Filings: Meta spent the most on US lobbying in Q3, spending $5.8M, followed by Amazon, Google, Apple; Anthropic, Nvidia, and a16z hit $1M+ for the first time (www.axios.com)
2025-10-22 Google Amazon Apple Nvidia

OpenAI launches its ChatGPT Atlas web browser, available initially for macOS, and “coming soon” to Windows, iOS, and Android (www.axios.com)
2025-10-22 Android IOS Browser

Nvidia and TSMC unveil the first Blackwell chip wafer made in the US, which will eventually become Blackwell chips (www.axios.com)
2025-10-18 Nvidia

Commonwealth Fusion Systems partners with Google DeepMind to use Google's open-source plasma simulator, TORAX, for accelerating fusion energy development (www.axios.com)
2025-10-17 Google Energy

OpenAI hires black hole physicist Alex Lupsasca, the first person to join the OpenAI for Science initiative led by Kevin Weil (www.axios.com)
2025-10-17

Glue, a Slack competitor co-founded last year by David Sacks and designed around threads over channels, raised a $20M Series A and says it has refocused on MCP (www.axios.com)
2025-10-15 Slack

OpenAI says GPT‑5 instant and GPT‑5 thinking cut political bias by 30% from earlier models, and show greater robustness to charged prompts (www.axios.com)
2025-10-10

Kernel, which helps AI agents access the internet more efficiently via Chrome, raised $22M in seed and Series A led by Accel (www.axios.com)
2025-10-10 AI Chrome

Snappr, a visual content platform and a marketplace for professional photographers, raised a $28M Series B led by Foundry and expands to Europe (www.axios.com)
2025-10-9 Europe

FurtherAI, which uses AI to automate insurance tasks such as claims processing, raised a $25M Series A led by a16z, bringing its total funding to $30M (www.axios.com)
2025-10-8 AI Insurance

Coupa, a Thoma Bravo-owned supply chain tech company, acquires procurement tech startup Scoutbee, with the deal expected to close by the end of October (www.axios.com)
2025-10-7 Startup

Seattle-based Phaidra, which develops AI agents to help make data centers more resource efficient, raised over $50M in a Series B led by Collaborative Fund (www.axios.com)
2025-10-1 AI Seattle

OpenAI releases an invitation-only Sora app on iOS, powered by Sora 2, to let people create and share AI-generated videos of themselves and their friends (www.axios.com)
2025-10-1 IOS AI

Disney sent a cease-and-desist to Character.AI for misusing its characters in harmful ways, including sexual exploitation; the startup removed Disney characters (www.axios.com)
2025-10-1 Startup AI

President Trump signs an executive order directing his administration to invest $50M in AI-driven pediatric cancer research (www.axios.com)
2025-10-1 Trump AI

New York-based Modal Labs, which offers a serverless cloud platform to build AI apps and run AI inference, raised $87M led by Lux Capital at a $1.1B valuation (www.axios.com)
2025-9-30 AI New York

Education software company EdSights, which uses SMS texting and AI to reach students and identify those at risk of dropping out, raised $80M from JMI Equity (www.axios.com)
2025-9-28 AI Education Equity

Trump says Microsoft should fire its global affairs head Lisa Monaco over her work in the Biden administration, calling her a “menace to US National Security” (www.axios.com)
2025-9-27 Trump Microsoft

Insurance tech company Ethos, last valued at $2.7B in 2021, files for a US IPO ; its revenue rose 54.9% YoY to $183.7M in H1, with net income up 64% to $30.7M (www.axios.com)
2025-9-27 IPO Insurance

WeTravel, whose travel payments software is used by group travel operators, raised a $92M Series C at a ~$450M valuation, up from ~$100M in 2022 (www.axios.com)
2025-9-24

Sources: Microsoft is in talks with US publishers about launching a two-sided marketplace that would compensate publishers for their content used by AI products (www.axios.com)
2025-9-24 Microsoft AI

Source: Stripe is in talks to buy back shares from its VC backers at a $106.7B valuation; Sequoia bought $861M worth of shares in 2024 at a $70B valuation (www.axios.com)
2025-9-24

Meta launches the American Technology Excellence Project, a super PAC to fight AI policy bills at the state level; it previously launched a California PAC (www.axios.com)
2025-9-24 U.S. AI California

Pharmacy benefit management startup Capital Rx raised $400M, including a $252M Series F; it has raised $607M+ to date and was valued at $3.25B pre-Series F (www.axios.com)
2025-9-23 Startup

Google DeepMind updates its Frontier Safety Framework to account for new risks, including the potential for models to resist shutdown or modification by humans (www.axios.com)
2025-9-22 Google

White House says TikTok's new US entity would lease a copy of the algorithm from ByteDance, which Oracle would retrain; users won't need to re-download the app (www.axios.com)
2025-9-22 Oracle Algorithm

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