Articles from www.axios.com

Articles from www.axios.com

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)
3 hours ago 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)
2 days ago 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)
4 days ago 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)
5 days ago Tax

Mark Zuckerberg announces that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will be chief scientist at Meta's new superintelligence lab (www.axios.com)
7 days ago 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)
7 days ago 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)
9 days ago 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)
11 days ago

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)
12 days ago 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)
12 days ago ERP

Austin-based CertifID, which develops tech to prevent wire fraud in real estate transactions, raised a $47.5M Series C led by Centana Growth Partners (www.axios.com)
12 days ago

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral (www.axios.com)
13 days ago

Source: the CEO and the chief people officer of Astronomer were put on leave after a video of them cuddling on a kiss cam at a Coldplay concert went viral (www.axios.com)
14 days ago

SPAC Insider: SPACs are booming in 2025, with 74 blank check companies going public so far in 2025, raising about $14.7B and beating 2022 total of $13.4B (www.axios.com)
14 days ago

The House passes the GENIUS Act, sending the first-ever regulatory framework for issuers of stablecoins to President Trump for his signature (www.axios.com)
15 days ago Trump

Internal memo: Adam Mosseri says Meta has named long time executive Connor Hayes as head of Threads, starting in mid-September; Hayes joined Meta in 2011 (www.axios.com)
15 days ago

Firestorm Labs, which has contracts with the US DOD for its 3D printed drones, raised a $47M Series A and plans to grow its fleet of airliftable xCell factories (www.axios.com)
15 days ago Drone

Elon Musk addresses Grok's antisemitic posts, says it was “too compliant to user prompts” and “too eager to please and be manipulated, essentially” (www.axios.com)
23 days ago Elon Musk

X CEO Linda Yaccarino says that “after two incredible years, I've decided to step down”; X hired Yaccarino in 2023 after running NBCUniversal's ad business (www.axios.com)
23 days ago

AirGarage, whose platform collects and analyzes parking facilities' data to improve efficiency, raised a $23M Series B, bringing its total funding to $41M (www.axios.com)
24 days ago

PE firm TPG completes its $7.6B acquisition of the remaining 70% stake in DirecTV from AT&T, marking AT&T's exit from media (www.axios.com)
25 days ago AT&T

Emerald AI, whose software lets AI data centers flexibly adjust power consumption, raised a $24.5M seed led by Radical Ventures, with NVentures participating (www.axios.com)
27 days ago AI

PitchBook: AI startups received 53% of all global VC dollars invested in H1 2025, rising to 64% in the US, and accounted for 29% of all global startups funded (www.axios.com)
27 days ago Startup AI

Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens (www.axios.com)
29 days ago Asset Equity

Trump says “We might have to put DOGE on Elon”, “DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon”, and “We'll have to take a look” at deporting Musk (www.axios.com)
2025-7-2 Trump

Tinder is mandating new users in California verify their profiles using facial recognition technology starting June 30 in a bid to reduce impersonation (www.axios.com)
2025-6-30 California Facial Recognition

The White House announces an AI Education Pledge with commitments from 60+ companies to provide AI education materials to K-12 students over the next four years (www.axios.com)
2025-6-30 AI Education

Spinwheel, which helps fintech companies and banks authenticate users, automate data retrieval, and facilitate payments, raised a $30M Series A led by F-Prime (www.axios.com)
2025-6-30 Fintech

Niural, whose AI agents help companies automate payroll, benefits, vendor payments, and compliance, raised a $31M Series A led by Marathon Management Partners (www.axios.com)
2025-6-29 AI

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (www.axios.com)
2025-6-28 AI Republican Senate

Previous Page Next Page