Articles from www.axios.com

Articles from www.axios.com

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)
2026-5-27 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)
2026-5-23 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)
2026-5-22 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)
2026-5-22 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)
2026-5-21 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)
2026-5-20 AI

Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (www.axios.com)
2026-5-20

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)
2026-5-20 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)
2026-5-20 Tesla

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)
2026-5-20

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)
2026-5-19 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)
2026-5-18 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)
2026-5-18 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)
2026-5-18 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)
2026-5-13 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)
2026-5-12 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)
2026-5-8

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

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