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Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a $2.2B post-money valuation (www.axios.com)
2 days ago AI Drone Gun Control

Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (www.axios.com)
4 days ago AI

Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z (www.axios.com)
6 days ago

Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 (www.axios.com)
6 days ago

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (www.axios.com)
6 days ago AI Robot Nvidia Autonomous Car

Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A (www.axios.com)
6 days ago AI

Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C (www.axios.com)
6 days ago

Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 (www.axios.com)
7 days ago Microsoft Nvidia

Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10 (www.axios.com)
8 days ago AI

Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be “the first company in American history to offer” them, to be “fully regulated” by the CFTC (www.axios.com)
9 days ago U.S. CFTC

OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools (www.axios.com)
9 days ago

Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October (www.axios.com)
9 days ago

Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (www.axios.com)
9 days ago Tax

Anthropic says it expects Mythos-class models to be available to all customers “in the coming weeks” following the development of stronger safeguards (www.axios.com)
10 days ago

Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC (www.axios.com)
10 days ago AI

Source: Groq is raising ~$650M from existing investors; the AI chipmaker earlier signed a $20B Nvidia licensing deal that saw much of its senior team depart (www.axios.com)
10 days ago AI Nvidia

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes (www.axios.com)
11 days ago

Tensormesh, whose inference platform uses KV caching to reduce costs, raised a $20M seed extension, bringing its total funding to $24.5M (www.axios.com)
11 days ago

DC-based Airis Labs, which uses AI to convert visual data to law enforcement intelligence, emerges from stealth with a $31M Series B, for $60M in total funding (www.axios.com)
11 days ago AI Intelligence

Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases a protein-structure prediction model and more, calling it “a world model” of proteins (www.axios.com)
11 days ago Zuckerberg

Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” (www.axios.com)
11 days ago

Sources: Bond Capital is leading a new investment for AI startup Suno, which would value it at ~$5B, up from $2.45B last fall; Suno is expected to raise $250M+ (www.axios.com)
11 days ago Startup AI

Farther Finance, which is building an AI-enabled wealth management platform for financial advisors, raised a $150M Series D at a $1B+ post-money valuation (www.axios.com)
16 days ago AI

Sources: Trump delayed signing the AI EO because “he just hates regulation”; he spoke with Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and David Sacks just prior to the delay (www.axios.com)
16 days ago Trump AI Elon Musk Zuckerberg

Memo: the White House postpones a planned ceremony this afternoon for Trump to sign a new EO on AI and cybersecurity; major tech CEOs were invited to attend (www.axios.com)
17 days ago Trump AI

SpaceX S-1: Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25B/mo. until May 2029 under their compute deal; Anthropic says it's expanding the deal to include Colossus 2 capacity (www.axios.com)
17 days ago SpaceX

Sources: a draft White House EO would create a “voluntary framework” for AI companies to give government agencies early access to models before public release (www.axios.com)
18 days ago AI

Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (www.axios.com)
18 days ago

Sundar Pichai says Google is now processing 3.2 quadrillion tokens per month, up from 480T tokens per month a year ago and 9.7T tokens per month two years ago (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Google

Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic to help launch a team focused on using Claude to accelerate pre-training research; he helped found OpenAI and worked at Tesla (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Tesla

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