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Palantir sues two ex-employees now working at Percepta, an “AI transformation company” launched by General Catalyst, and alleges deception and stolen documents (www.axios.com)
13 hours ago AI

Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation (www.axios.com)
13 hours ago

Sources: Consensys, maker of crypto wallet MetaMask, plans to go public, with JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs leading its IPO; Consensys was valued at $7B in 2022 (www.axios.com)
1 day ago IPO JPMorgan Goldman

Apollo Global reaches a deal to sell AOL to Bending Spoons, sources say in a deal valued at ~$1.5B; AOL has about 30M MAUs across its email and web properties (www.axios.com)
1 day ago

Sam Altman says OpenAI has committed to spend about $1.4T on infrastructure so far, equating to roughly 30GW of data center capacity (www.axios.com)
2 days ago

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)
4 days ago 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)
4 days ago

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)
7 days ago 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)
8 days ago

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)
9 days ago 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)
9 days ago 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)
13 days ago 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)
14 days ago 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)
14 days ago

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)
16 days ago 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)
20 days ago

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)
21 days ago 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)
22 days ago 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)
23 days ago 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)
24 days ago 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)
29 days ago 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)
30 days ago 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)
30 days ago Startup AI

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

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