Articles from www.axios.com

Articles from www.axios.com

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

Markup AI, which scans, scores, and rewrites AI-generated content to ensure brand compliance for content marketers, raised a $27.5M Series A (www.axios.com)
2025-9-22 AI

Karoline Leavitt confirms Oracle will handle TikTok's data and security, and says the US is “100% confident” a deal is done and it “just needs to be signed” (www.axios.com)
2025-9-21 Oracle

The White House says the $100K H-1B fee will not be applied to renewals or existing holders of valid visas re-entering the US, only new applicants (www.axios.com)
2025-9-21 H1B

Trump claims he and Xi Jinping approved a deal for TikTok's US operations; Chinese media's readout only says that China respects the wishes of businesses (www.axios.com)
2025-9-20 Trump China

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)
2025-9-17 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)
2025-9-17 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)
2025-9-16

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)
2025-9-12 Microsoft

Shift5, which develops cybersecurity tools for the military and critical infrastructure, raised a $75M Series C led by Hedosophia (www.axios.com)
2025-9-8

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)
2025-9-7 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)
2025-9-5 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)
2025-9-5 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)
2025-9-3 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)
2025-9-3 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)
2025-9-2

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)
2025-8-29 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)
2025-8-27 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)
2025-8-24 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)
2025-8-22

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)
2025-8-21 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

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