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Sources: crypto exchange Backpack, built by ex-FTX and Alameda leaders, is in talks to raise $50M at a $1B pre-money valuation, reports $100M+ in annual revenue (www.axios.com)
2026-2-10

Oxide Computer, which lets companies build their own cloud, raised $200M led by USIT, taking its total funding to nearly $390M since its 2019 founding (www.axios.com)
2026-2-10

Sources: Stripe is in talks to launch a tender offer that could value the company at $140B+, up from $107B last fall, when it bought back shares from investors (www.axios.com)
2026-2-10

OpenAI says ads in ChatGPT are not eligible to appear near “sensitive or regulated topics like health, mental health or politics” (www.axios.com)
2026-2-10

Anthropic says Opus 4.6 found 500+ previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting during its testing (www.axios.com)
2026-2-6

Fitbit co-founders James Park and Eric Friedman unveil Luffu, a self-funded startup developing an AI-powered “family care system”, currently in private testing (www.axios.com)
2026-2-3 Startup AI

Denver-based Northslope, which builds customized AI applications for Palantir OS, raised a $22M Series A led by Friends & Family Capital and Goldcrest Capital (www.axios.com)
2026-2-1 AI

Miami-based Indigo, which uses AI-powered underwriting tech to provide medical liability insurance to physicians, raised a $50M Series B led by Rubicon Founders (www.axios.com)
2026-2-1 AI Insurance

Pro-AI super PAC Leading the Future has raised $125M+ in 2025, including from a16z and Greg Brockman, to try to shape the US midterms and federal AI regulation (www.axios.com)
2026-1-31 AI

Summize, which uses AI to let in-house legal teams manage contract workflows within apps like Slack, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $65M (www.axios.com)
2026-1-28 AI Slack

Yahoo launches Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Claude, in beta for US users on desktop and mobile, and joins Microsoft's Publisher Content Marketplace (www.axios.com)
2026-1-28 Microsoft Mobile AI Yahoo

In a 38-page essay, Dario Amodei warns of civilization-level damage from superintelligent AI, questioning whether humanity has the maturity to handle such power (www.axios.com)
2026-1-27 AI

As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450+ workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out (www.axios.com)
2026-1-27 Google Amazon

OpenAI says nearly 1.3M weekly users are discussing “advanced topics in hard science” in January, with an average of 8.4M ChatGPT messages on those topics (www.axios.com)
2026-1-26

Booz Allen Hamilton commits $400M to a16z's newest set of funds, for which a16z raised $15B+ in January; this is Booz Allen's first LP stake in any VC fund (www.axios.com)
2026-1-24

Source: the TikTok US deal values it at just around $14B; TikTok's US entity makes roughly $14B annually in advertising revenues alone, per analyst estimates (www.axios.com)
2026-1-23

Railway, a cloud platform for software deployment, raised a $100M Series B led by TQ Ventures, bringing its total funding to $130M+, says it has ARR of $10M+ (www.axios.com)
2026-1-23

The US DOJ says at least two DOGE employees accessed Social Security data that was off-limits under a court ruling and shared agency data on third-party servers (www.axios.com)
2026-1-21

OpenAI executive Chris Lehane says the company is “on track” to unveil its first device in the “latter part” of 2026; reports suggest it will be a wearable (www.axios.com)
2026-1-20

Source: Elon Musk donates $10M to boost pro-Trump Senate candidate Nate Morris, seeking to replace Mitch McConnell, in Musk's largest-ever Senate donation (www.axios.com)
2026-1-19 Trump Elon Musk Senate

David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast's proposed AI OVERWATCH Act to regulate AI chip sales to China (www.axios.com)
2026-1-18 China AI

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (www.axios.com)
2026-1-17 California

Novee, which utilizes proprietary AI models to perform automated penetration testing, emerges from stealth with a $43M Series A and an $8.5M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-1-15 AI

Tel Aviv- and Boston-based IO River, which lets users manage multiple CDN and edge networks, raised a $20M Series A led by Venture Guides and New Era (www.axios.com)
2026-1-15

WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI Insurance

Onebrief, which makes AI-powered military workflow software, raised a $200M Series D, nearly doubling its valuation from $1.1B to $2.1B in about half of a year (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised “high double-digit” millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new “top-level” initiative called Meta Compute to build “tens of gigawatts” of AI infrastructure during this decade (www.axios.com)
2026-1-13 AI Zuckerberg

Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg (www.axios.com)
2026-1-13 Republican Zuckerberg

OpenAI and kids safety group Common Sense Media partner to consolidate competing measures for a California ballot initiative meant to protect kids from chatbots (www.axios.com)
2026-1-10 chatbot California

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