Articles from www.axios.com

Articles from www.axios.com

Raindrop, which develops tech for monitoring AI agents to catch failures such as hallucinations and tool misuse, raised a $35M Series A led by CRV (www.axios.com)
2026-9-20

Speaker Johnson says Congress won't lead the charge on regulating AI safety and AI companies should take responsibility to ensure the safety of their products (www.axios.com)
2026-9-14 AI

Epsilon Health, which contracts with radiologists who use its AI to generate image reports faster, emerges from stealth with a $20M Series A led by AlleyCorp (www.axios.com)
2026-9-12 AI

Sources: some lawmakers urge Speaker Johnson to cancel the fall House recess until Congress passes AI safeguards, after Anthropic researcher warnings (www.axios.com)
2026-9-12 AI

Sources: TikTok rejects ads from Meta that call on TikTok and other platforms to join Meta in settling with US state AGs in a landmark child safety lawsuit (www.axios.com)
2026-9-11

London-based Xapien, which uses AI for background checks and due diligence, raised a $56M Series B led by Spectrum Equity (www.axios.com)
2026-9-11 AI Equity London

Letter: the Senate disaster management subcommittee, led by Sen. Josh Hawley, is probing OpenAI's handling of the Hugging Face breach, calling it “reckless” (www.axios.com)
2026-9-10 Senate

AI researcher Jacob Coxon says he quit Anthropic after four months, two months before his equity would have vested; he still has equity in prior employer OpenAI (www.axios.com)
2026-9-10 AI Equity

Euno, whose platform reconstructs data flow, meaning, health, and more across data environments to give agents context, raised a $23M Series A led by N47 (www.axios.com)
2026-9-9

Savvy Wealth, which provides RIA software for independent financial advisors, raised a $100M Series C led by Halo Fund, taking its total funding to $200M+ (www.axios.com)
2026-9-9

Source: Anthropic is severing ties with the Information Technology Industry Council after the tech industry trade group opposed three export control measures (www.axios.com)
2026-9-9

Meta launches Muse, a personal AI agent that runs on a dedicated VM in Meta's cloud, initially available in the US, with support coming soon for its AI glasses (www.axios.com)
2026-9-9 AI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT Images 2.5, which it says cuts image generation latency by up to 50% vs. Images 2.0, and adds a Sketch feature for drawing in ChatGPT (www.axios.com)
2026-9-9

OpenAI says an internal model “significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra” solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours (www.axios.com)
2026-9-9

NYC-based Blee, which makes marketing compliance software for financial services companies, raised a $20M Series A led by Fin Capital and SMBC and a $7M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-9-8

Sources: PayPal has paused plans to sell its VC portfolio for $900M-$1B after bids came in lower than hoped, months after deciding to wind down PayPal Ventures (www.axios.com)
2026-9-4

OpenAI commits $1B in subsidized model access, training, support, and partnerships to a new initiative aimed at protecting essential services around the world (www.axios.com)
2026-9-4

OpenAI says Astra was built on its largest-ever training run, using more than 100,000 GPUs at its Stargate site in Texas (www.axios.com)
2026-9-4 Texas

Meta rolls out Muse Spark 1.3 in Muse Code and Meta Model API, saying it significantly improves coding and agentic performance, at the same price as Spark 1.2 (www.axios.com)
2026-9-3

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says “we trust Anthropic” as they are “back on the right side” with the administration and that “they've done what we asked” (www.axios.com)
2026-9-3

Conveo, which uses AI to conduct customer interviews in 15 languages and analyzes transcripts for market insights, raised a $50M Series A led by DST Global (www.axios.com)
2026-9-3 AI

New Jersey-based Aitan, which offers “robotic sovereignty as a service” and “edge AI weapon systems”, emerges from stealth with $41M led by Deep33 and Dell (www.axios.com)
2026-9-2 AI Robot

OpenAI says Astra is its first model to reach its “Critical” cyber threshold and warns safeguards may mistakenly flag legitimate activity as cyber misuse (www.axios.com)
2026-9-2

Aslan, which offers AI agents for the FBI and wider intelligence community that can pose as analysts and undercover spies in online forums, raised $20.8M (www.axios.com)
2026-9-2 AI FBI Intelligence

Sources: AI sales and marketing startup Clay is raising a round led by Wellington at a $7B pre-money valuation, up from $5B via an employee tender in January (www.axios.com)
2026-9-1 Startup AI

Chip design startup Agentrys has raised a $19.1M seed round led by Etna Labs and a $5.4M pre-seed led by MediaTek (www.axios.com)
2026-8-31 Startup

Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (www.axios.com)
2026-8-28 Uber AI Budget

OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” (www.axios.com)
2026-8-28 Microsoft AI

Sen. Josh Hawley launches an investigation into Flock's “collection, retention, and dissemination of the data” from its AI-powered surveillance cameras (www.axios.com)
2026-8-27 AI

The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring (www.axios.com)
2026-8-27 Trump Google Amazon AI

Previous Page Next Page