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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

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)
2025-7-30 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)
2025-7-29 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)
2025-7-28 Tax

Mark Zuckerberg announces that former OpenAI researcher Shengjia Zhao will be chief scientist at Meta's new superintelligence lab (www.axios.com)
2025-7-26 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)
2025-7-25 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)
2025-7-23 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)
2025-7-22

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)
2025-7-20 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)
2025-7-20 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)
2025-7-20

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)
2025-7-20

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)
2025-7-19

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)
2025-7-19

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)
2025-7-18 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)
2025-7-18

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)
2025-7-18 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)
2025-7-10 Elon Musk

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