Articles from www.axios.com

Articles from www.axios.com

Sources: the US' AI framework excludes open models and defines a covered frontier model as closed source with SOTA capabilities and national security risks (www.axios.com)
2026-8-5 AI

Sources: the White House doesn't plan to publicly release its voluntary AI framework; details will be available to the companies that are part of the process (www.axios.com)
2026-8-5 AI

The White House says it has met its deadline to establish a voluntary framework for evaluating advanced AI models; it did not provide details of the framework (www.axios.com)
2026-8-4 AI

Source: Dario Amodei expressed concern about staff coming to Anthropic for the money rather than the mission, as Anthropic, OpenAI, and others battle for talent (www.axios.com)
2026-8-3

Tel Aviv-based Bloom Security, which develops endpoint security tools for monitoring AI agents, extensions, and more, emerges from stealth with a $20M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-8-1 AI

ProphetX, a CFTC-designated sports prediction market that is also building a B2B business to sell its exchange infrastructure to other companies, raised $35M (www.axios.com)
2026-8-1 CFTC

Anthropic says three of its models, including an internal research model, gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during internal cybersecurity testing (www.axios.com)
2026-7-31

At a hearing, a US judge says “I don't see additional evidence” from the Pentagon justifying its designation of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk (www.axios.com)
2026-7-31 Pentagon

OpenAI says it is cutting the price of GPT-5.6 Luna by ~80% and the price of GPT-5.6 Terra by 20% after improving the efficiency of the systems that serve them (www.axios.com)
2026-7-31

Scale AI hires former Google Cloud COO Francis deSouza as CEO, replacing interim CEO Jason Droege, who took over last year after Alexandr Wang left for Meta (www.axios.com)
2026-7-31 Google AI

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Academic Researchers, giving 100K scientists, mathematicians, and engineers free access to its frontier models through 2027 (www.axios.com)
2026-7-29

Coursera is investing $100M in LearnVector, a new AI education company founded by Andrew Ng that aims to build AI agents that function as personal tutors (www.axios.com)
2026-7-28 AI Education

Tel Aviv-based Act Security, whose platform reduces the access surface across cloud infrastructure, emerges from stealth with a $40M Series A and a $20M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-7-28

Way Security, which uses AI automation and agentic workflows to help deploy IAM systems, raised a $20M seed from Insight Partners and Glilot Capital (www.axios.com)
2026-7-27 AI

Paper, which allows designers to connect directly with production code and the AI agents that create it, raised a $34M Series A led by Accel and ICONIQ (www.axios.com)
2026-7-25 AI

Meta updates Meta AI with Muse Spark 1.1-powered agentic capabilities, connecting to Gmail and Google Calendar to perform tasks like creating daily updates (www.axios.com)
2026-7-25 Google AI

Anthropic says Opus 5 model “is the least susceptible to being tricked into misuse”; it is Anthropic's fourth model release in less than two months (www.axios.com)
2026-7-25

Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations, and will soon let them contact local businesses for quotes via ChatGPT (www.axios.com)
2026-7-24

Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas (www.axios.com)
2026-7-23 AI Zuckerberg

Jensen Huang says “these Chinese models are excellent”, “open-source models that are excellent should be used”, and “free AI should be great for hardware” (www.axios.com)
2026-7-22 China AI

OpenAI renews its investment in the American Journalism Project by committing an additional $5M in funding and $3M in tech credits over the next two years (www.axios.com)
2026-7-22 U.S.

Cisco releases Antares-350M and Antares-1B, two open-weight AI models to find known vulnerabilities within a codebase, and plans to release Antares-3B soon (www.axios.com)
2026-7-22 AI Cisco

OpenAI says the Hugging Face breach was driven by a combination of its models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and “an even more capable pre-release model” (www.axios.com)
2026-7-22

Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A (www.axios.com)
2026-7-21 AI

CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute (www.axios.com)
2026-7-21 AI

Sources: parts of the Trump administration are reigniting efforts to implement de facto bans on foreign open-source models, as Chinese AI models gain momentum (www.axios.com)
2026-7-20 Trump China AI

TMTG plans to launch Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from top Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms (www.axios.com)
2026-7-16

Beacon Security, which offers an agentic security platform, raised a $13M seed and says it has “tens” of large enterprise customers including Cerebras (www.axios.com)
2026-7-16

Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei have published detailed memos in recent weeks, basically agreeing on the need for a US-led AI regulatory framework (www.axios.com)
2026-7-16 AI

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launch a bioresilience program to leverage AI models for pathogen surveillance, vaccine design, and outbreak response (www.axios.com)
2026-7-16 Google AI

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