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Relay, which builds banking and money management software for small businesses, raised $50M; it previously raised ~$51.5M, including a $32.2M Series B in 2024 (www.axios.com)
19 days ago

Unframe, which customizes AI apps for enterprises via pre-built modular components, raised a $50M Series B led by Highland Europe, for $100M in total funding (www.axios.com)
19 days ago Europe AI

Dust, which helps enterprises design and deploy specialized AI agents that work alongside humans, raised a $40M Series B led by Abstract and Sequoia (www.axios.com)
20 days ago AI

Steve Bannon and 60+ Trump allies sign a Humans First-led letter urging Trump to mandate government testing and approval of powerful AI models before release (www.axios.com)
20 days ago Trump AI Bannon

New York City-based GovWell, which uses AI to streamline government processes like permitting and licensing, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (www.axios.com)
20 days ago AI New York

German quantum MRI imaging startup NVision raised a $55M Series B led by Abbott at a $250M to $300M valuation, and plans a $100M+ Series C later in 2026 (www.axios.com)
25 days ago Germany Startup Quantum

Source: Robinhood has filed confidentially for its second publicly traded venture fund, Robinhood Venture Fund II, focusing on early-stage startups (www.axios.com)
26 days ago Startup

OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (www.axios.com)
30 days ago

Anthropic's SpaceX deal helps it address a severe compute deficit and comes amid Elon Musk's OpenAI lawsuit; Grok never grew to utilize xAI's Colossus 1 (www.axios.com)
2026-5-7 Elon Musk SpaceX

Anthropic says it signed a deal with SpaceX to use “all of the compute capacity” at Colossus 1, giving it access to over 300 MW of new capacity within the month (www.axios.com)
2026-5-7 SpaceX

Nace.AI, which lets companies build specialized AI models tailored to their business' mission and language, raised a $21.5M seed led by Walden Catalyst (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6 AI

OpenAI rolls out a beta version of its new Ads Manager tool to advertisers in the US, making it easier for SMBs to buy ChatGPT ads on a cost-per-click basis (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6

OpenAI says GPT-5.5 Instant produces 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims “on high-stakes prompts covering areas like medicine, law, and finance” (www.axios.com)
2026-5-6

Enzo Health, whose AI tools help home health and hospice agencies automate tasks like patient intake and documentation review, raised a $20M Series A led by N47 (www.axios.com)
2026-5-4 AI

JuliaHub, which aims to use agentic coding tools to design complex products such as cars and airplanes, raised a $65M Series B led by Dorilton Capital (www.axios.com)
2026-5-1

Aidoc, which provides AI medical imaging software to flag incidental findings on CT scans and X-rays, raised a $150M Series E, taking its total funding to $520M (www.axios.com)
2026-4-30 AI

Sources: the White House is developing rules for government agencies to get around Anthropic's supply chain risk designation and onboard new models like Mythos (www.axios.com)
2026-4-29

Amazon and OpenAI announce an expanded deal that will make OpenAI's models available from AWS, a day after OpenAI revised its Microsoft partnership (www.axios.com)
2026-4-29 Amazon Microsoft

Collov Labs, whose visual interface lets users feed images and camera input into a model that AI agents can reason over and act on, raised a $23M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-4-27 AI

Sources: Tokyo-based humanoid robotics startup Genki Robotics, co-founded by Andy Rubin, raised a Series A at a ~$1B valuation; it raised a ~$50M seed in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-4-27 Startup Robot Tokyo

How the Vatican is moving faster than most legacy institutions to shape AI rules and guardrails, with an AI framework, banning use of AI to write homilies, more (www.axios.com)
2026-4-26 AI

Meta announces a deal to use “tens of millions” of Amazon's Graviton chips to help deliver its next generation of AI models, amid a shortage of Nvidia chips (www.axios.com)
2026-4-24 Amazon AI Nvidia

OpenAI says GPT-5.5's improvements are strongest in agentic coding, computer use, and early scientific research, which require reasoning across longer contexts (www.axios.com)
2026-4-24

Orkes, which helps companies scale their AI and agentic systems, raised $60M, including a $40M Series B led by AVP, bringing its total funding to ~$90M (www.axios.com)
2026-4-23 AI

Petual, which automates internal audit work and generates auditor-ready workpapers, raised $20M across a pre-seed led by First Round and a seed led by a16z (www.axios.com)
2026-4-23

Cloudsmith, which is building a cloud-native system to manage software artifacts, raised a $72M Series C, following a $23M Series B in 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-4-23

Monk, which automates accounts receivable workflows, raised a $25M Series A co-led by Footwork and Acrew Capital, bringing its total funding to $29M (www.axios.com)
2026-4-23

Sources: OpenAI has been briefing US federal agencies, state governments, and Five Eyes allies on the capabilities of its GPT-5.4-Cyber model over the past week (www.axios.com)
2026-4-22

Filing: Anthropic spent $1.6M and OpenAI $1M on lobbying in Q1, vs. $360K and $560K in Q1 2025, respectively; Meta topped Big Tech lobbying spending with $7.1M (www.axios.com)
2026-4-22

AcuityMD, which provides AI tools that automate sales call recaps, CRM data entry, and more for medtech companies, raised an $80M Series C at a $955M valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-4-22 AI CRM

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