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Articles from www.axios.com

David Sacks and top MAGA influencers are publicly opposing House Foreign Affairs Chair Brian Mast's proposed AI OVERWATCH Act to regulate AI chip sales to China (www.axios.com)
2026-1-18 China AI

California's AG sends a cease-and-desist letter to xAI, demanding the company halt the generation and distribution of non-consensual intimate images and CSAM (www.axios.com)
2026-1-17 California

Novee, which utilizes proprietary AI models to perform automated penetration testing, emerges from stealth with a $43M Series A and an $8.5M seed (www.axios.com)
2026-1-15 AI

Tel Aviv- and Boston-based IO River, which lets users manage multiple CDN and edge networks, raised a $20M Series A led by Venture Guides and New Era (www.axios.com)
2026-1-15

WithCoverage, which replaces traditional insurance brokers with its AI-based flat-fee risk management model, raised a $42M Series B led by Sequoia and Khosla (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI Insurance

Onebrief, which makes AI-powered military workflow software, raised a $200M Series D, nearly doubling its valuation from $1.1B to $2.1B in about half of a year (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Austin-based webAI, which is building AI models that run locally on devices, raised “high double-digit” millions in a Series A at a $2.5B pre-money valuation (www.axios.com)
2026-1-14 AI

Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is establishing a new “top-level” initiative called Meta Compute to build “tens of gigawatts” of AI infrastructure during this decade (www.axios.com)
2026-1-13 AI Zuckerberg

Meta appoints Dina Powell McCormick, a prominent banking executive and former Republican official, as president and vice chair, reporting to Mark Zuckerberg (www.axios.com)
2026-1-13 Republican Zuckerberg

OpenAI and kids safety group Common Sense Media partner to consolidate competing measures for a California ballot initiative meant to protect kids from chatbots (www.axios.com)
2026-1-10 chatbot California

a16z raises over $15B across five new funds, including $6.75B for its fifth growth fund and $3B for unspecified “other venture strategies” (www.axios.com)
2026-1-10

OpenAI unveils ChatGPT Health, which lets users import medical records and other data from health apps into ChatGPT, initially available to a small group (www.axios.com)
2026-1-8

London-based e-commerce logistics platform Swap raised a $100M Series C led by DST Global and Iconiq, after raising a $40M Series B in March 2025 (www.axios.com)
2026-1-8 London Logistics

Internal memo: Meta names CJ Mahoney, former Microsoft legal executive and deputy US Trade Representative during Trump's first term, as its chief legal officer (www.axios.com)
2026-1-7 Trump Microsoft

OpenAI says 40M+ Americans turn to ChatGPT daily for health information, per an analysis of anonymized interactions, seeing it as an “ally” for health care (www.axios.com)
2026-1-5 U.S.

A new Polymarket account bet $30K on Maduro's capture just hours before Trump's announcement, renewing questions on insider information in prediction markets (www.axios.com)
2026-1-4 Trump

Sources: ~90% of Groq employees will join Nvidia and be paid cash for all vested shares; most shareholders will get per-share payouts tied to the $20B valuation (www.axios.com)
2025-12-28 Nvidia

Kargo, which uses cameras and sensors to inspect pallets in a warehouse and provide accurate inventory data, raised a $42M Series B led by Avenir (www.axios.com)
2025-12-23

Sources: Erebor, Palmer Luckey's digital bank, raised $350M led by Lux Capital at a $4.35B post-money valuation; it secured FDIC approval last week (www.axios.com)
2025-12-23

DataLane, which is using AI to build an identity graph to map local businesses across the US, raised a $22.5M Series A led by Amplify Partners (www.axios.com)
2025-12-21 AI

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 (www.axios.com)
2025-12-20 AI New York California

Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-20 Deep Learning

Boston-based Neurable, which builds an OS for brain-computer interfaces, raised a $35M Series A led by Spectrum Moonshot Fund, bringing its total raised to $65M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-20

Internal memo: TikTok has signed a deal to sell its US unit; Oracle, Silver Lake, MGX will collectively own 45% of the US entity, and ByteDance will retain ~20% (www.axios.com)
2025-12-19 Oracle Silver

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC “is not an independent agency”; the agency removed “independent agency” from its site as he testified (www.axios.com)
2025-12-18 Senate

Adaptive Security, which uses AI to simulate social engineering attacks and help companies prevent them, raised an $81M Series B led by Bain Capital Ventures (www.axios.com)
2025-12-17 AI

Event software company Cvent acquires video content platform Goldcast; source: Cvent paid just under $300M to acquire Goldcast, which had raised around $38M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-17

Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M (www.axios.com)
2025-12-17 AI

Source: Dragoneer raised $4.3B for its seventh VC fund and now has over $30B in AUM; it raised $3.8B for its sixth private fund in 2022 (www.axios.com)
2025-12-16

Prime Security, which develops AI agents that help with security design during software development, raised a $20M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners (www.axios.com)
2025-12-14 AI

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