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Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers (Sam Sabin/Axios)

Sam Sabin / Axios : Letter: US cybersecurity leaders urge the White House to lift the ban on Anthropic's Mythos and Fable 5, arguing the move hurts defenders more than attackers — …

Anthropic staff to meet White House officials next week, Axios reports

June 14 (Reuters) - Senior Anthropic technical staff are in Washington to meet with White House officials to try resolving a dispute that has taken the company’s most advanced AI m…

Trump to Axios: Netanyahu has "no fucking judgment" but Iran deal still on

President Trump tells Axios the U.S.– Iran deal to end the war is still on track for Sunday despite Israel's strike in Beirut and the Iranian threat to retaliate. Why it matters: T…

Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios : Jeff Bezos' Prometheus, which is building AI models for physical tasks, raised a $12B Series B at a $41B valuation, following a $6.2B Series A — Prometheus, t…

Visa lets agents pay through OpenAI - Axios

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Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that has launched a payments platform earlier this year, raised a $20M Series A led by Jump Capital (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Ryan Lawler / Axios : Vinyl Equity, an SEC-registered transfer agent that has launched a payments platform earlier this year, raised a $20M Series A led by Jump Capital — Vinyl Equ…

Israel says it ‘struck military targets’ in Iran after Tehran launched missile attack

Israel Defense Forces said Sunday night its air force “struck military targets belonging to the Iranian terror regime in western and central Iran” after Iran fired missiles toward …

Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a $2.2B post-money valuation (Dan Primack/Axios)

Dan Primack / Axios : Allen Control Systems, which makes AI-powered gun turrets for shooting down drones, raised a $200M Series B led by Smash Capital at a $2.2B post-money valuati…

Terra AI, which develops AI models for mining companies to better map underground resources, raised a $20M Series A led by Khosla Ventures (Katie Fehrenbacher/Axios)

Politico, Axios: By Golly, Dems May Have Buyer's Remorse Over Nazi-Tatted Socialist Cad

If so, Maine Democrats have a week to change their minds. It might help if their party leaders acknowledged the obvious first, which is that they all lined up to endorse a pig in a…

Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z (Lucinda Shen/Axios)

Lucinda Shen / Axios : Stockholm-based Endra, which automates the design of plumbing and electrical wiring in new buildings, raised $50M led by a16z — Endra, a startup automating t…

Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025 (Kerry Flynn/Axios)

Kerry Flynn / Axios : Sekai, which lets users create mini apps through text prompts, raised a $20M Series A co-led by Khosla Ventures and Connect Ventures, after a $6M seed in 2025…

Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios : Nvidia unveils Cosmos 3, an open physical AI foundation model, to help robots and autonomous cars better understand the real world with limited training data — …

Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)

Brock E.W. Turner / Axios : Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A — Pharma ma…

Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Ryan Lawler / Axios : Daloopa, which structures financial data from filings, transcripts, investor decks, and other public sources for investment firms, raised a $47M Series C — Da…

Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios : Sources: Microsoft and Nvidia will unveil the first Windows PCs powered by Nvidia SoCs, including devices from Surface and Dell, at Computex and Build 2026 — Th…

Axios: Texas Senate Race Now An 'Ultimate Test' of GOP's Anti-Woke Playbook

Texas Senate race tests GOP's anti-woke strategy amid shifting political and cultural dynamics in 2026.…

Nvidia to unveil first Windows PCs powered by its chips next week - Axios

First Windows PC powered by Nvidia chips to debut next week, Axios reports

Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Chris Metinko / Axios : Miami-based Canals, which uses AI to help distributors automate workflows across sales, customer service, and more, raised a $35M Series A led by Base10 — C…

A company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in one month

An AI consultant told Axios that one of their clients "recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month" on Claude, the Anthropic AI assistant, because nobody had capped……

Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be "the first company in American history to offer" them, to be "fully regulated" by the CFTC (Nathan Bomey/Axios)

Nathan Bomey / Axios : Kalshi plans to offer perpetual futures contracts, saying it will be “the first company in American history to offer” them, to be “fully regulated” by the CF…

OpenAI says it has briefed the White House on its new biodefense program, which uses GPT-Rosalind to help develop biodefense and pandemic preparedness tools (Maria Curi/Axios)

OpenAI Launches Biodefense Program - Axios - TradingView

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Exclusive: OpenAI launches biodefense program - Axios

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Sources: Airwallex raised new funding led by Lee Fixel's Addition at a ~$12B valuation, up from $8B late last year, and hit $1.5B in ARR, up from $1B in October (Axios)

Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Ryan Lawler / Axios : Fonoa, which helps enterprises manage indirect tax compliance, raised a $110M Series C led by Headline and acquired PwC's Indirect Tax Edge platform — Fonoa, …

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the most valuable AI startup - Axios

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Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Ryan Lawler / Axios : Saris, which builds AI agents to automate back-office work for banks and credit unions, raised a $28.8M Series A led by 8VC — Saris, which builds AI agents to…

OpenAI announces partnerships to combat election misinformation, offering cybersecurity products to state officials and backing legislation to curb deepfakes (Maria Curi/Axios)

Exclusive: OpenAI readies cyber, misinformation defenses ahead of elections - Axios

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Tensormesh, whose inference platform uses KV caching to reduce costs, raised a $20M seed extension, bringing its total funding to $24.5M (Chris Metinko/Axios)

DC-based Airis Labs, which uses AI to convert visual data to law enforcement intelligence, emerges from stealth with a $31M Series B, for $60M in total funding (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Biohub, the Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan-funded institute, releases a protein-structure prediction model and more, calling it "a world model" of proteins (Ina Fried/Axios)

Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's "agentic era" is a "bit like a practice run" (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios : Demis Hassabis says he still broadly expects AGI around 2030, though he now sees 2029 as a possibility, and 2026's “agentic era” is a “bit like a practice run” …

Former AG Pam Bondi was diagnosed with cancer shortly after being axed by Trump: report

Pam Bondi was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after President Trump removed her as attorney general, according to a report Tuesday.…

Trump appoints former Attorney General Bondi to White House AI panel, Axios reports

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+ (Axios)

Axios: Iran Agreed to Discuss Surrendering Its Uranium Stocks

As Brad Pitt once said ... What's in the box?Over the last 30 hours or so, rumors of a deal with Ira…

US, Iran near deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz during ceasefire extension - Axios

Axios says proposed US-Iran deal involves opening strait during 60-day ceasefire extension

Axios says proposed US-Iran deal involves opening strait during 60-day ceasefire extension

May 23 - The U.S. and Iran are close to signing a deal involving a 60-day ceasefire extension, during which the Strait of Hormuz would be reopened, Iran would be able to freely sel…

Trump close to signing significant nuclear deal with Iran: Axios

Trump is close to signing a nuclear deal with Iran. Deal by June 30 priced at 46% YES, and before 2027 at 80% YES.…

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 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Ryan Lawler / Axios : 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 — F…

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 (Axios)

Axios : 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 — Everything …

Note: 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 (Ashley Gold/Axios)

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 (Ina Fried/Axios)

Ina Fried / Axios : 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…

'Bibi's hair was on fire:' Inside the call between Trump, Netanyahu on Iran ceasefire talks - Axios

The 'Axios' report came as the US sent a new proposal to Iran through Pakistani mediators.…

OpenAI prepares confidential IPO filing - Axios

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Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural (Natalie Breymeyer/Axios)

Natalie Breymeyer / Axios : Boston-based CircuitHub, which manufactures circuit boards based on customers' requirements, raised a $28M Series A led by Plural — CircuitHub, an elect…

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 (Ashley Gold/Axios)

Ashley Gold / Axios : 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…

Trump to attend G7 summit in France, Axios reports

Trump to attend G7 summit in France to discuss AI, trade, and crime-fighting, Axios reports.…

Trump to attend G7 summit in France, Axios reports

May 19 - U.S. President Donald Trump will attend the G7 leaders' meeting in France in June to speak about artificial intelligence, trade and crime-fighting, Axios reported on Tuesd…

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 (Ina Fried/Axios)

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 (Madison Mills/Axios)

OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic - Axios

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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 (Ryan Lawler/Axios)

Ryan Lawler / Axios : 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…

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 (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Chris Metinko / Axios : 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 fundin…

Axios Harris Poll 100: GOP embraces AI over Democrats

Cuba acquired drones and is discussing using them against U.S., Axios reports

In an exclusive, Axios reports that Cuba has acquired more than 300 military drones and is discussing using them to potentially attack the Guantanamo Bay U.S. detention center and …