Chris Metinko / Axios: 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 — Paper, a design platform for teams…
Madison Mills / Axios: 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 — Anthropic on Thursday is…
Ina Fried / Axios: 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 — Meta is giving its AI assistant new…
Madison Mills / Axios: 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 — Yelp is licensing reviews…
Sara Fischer / Axios: Mark Zuckerberg launches a media campaign positioning the company's AI development as an optimistic, pro-human alternative to its competitors' “dystopian” ideas — Meta CEO Mark…
Zachary Basu / Axios: 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&rdquo…
Sara Fischer / Axios: 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 — OpenAI is renewing its investment…
Sam Sabin / Axios: 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 — - Cisco says the models performed…
Ina Fried / Axios: 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” — OpenAI said Tuesday that models…
Chris Metinko / Axios: Chicago-based Empirical Security, which uses AI to help companies predict threats by monitoring exploited vulnerabilities, raised a $25M Series A — Exposure management startup Empirical…
Maria Curi / Axios: CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute — Chris Fall, the director of the Center for AI Standards and Innovation, is…
Maria Curi / Axios: 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 — The Trump administration is…
Sara Fischer / Axios: TMTG plans to launch the Truth API on August 1 to provide real-time data from trending Truth Social accounts to financial news organizations and trading firms — Trump Media & Technology…
Chris Metinko / Axios: Beacon Security, which offers an agentic security platform, raised a $13M seed and says it has “tens” of large enterprise customers including Cerebras — Beacon Security, an…
Axios: 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 — The three men racing hardest to build…
Madison Mills / Axios: Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launch a bioresilience program to leverage AI models for pathogen surveillance, vaccine design, and outbreak response — Google DeepMind on Thursday…
Ryan Lawler / Axios: Lumin Digital, which provides cloud-based digital banking software to banks and credit unions, raised more than $115M at a $1.6B post-money valuation — Lumin Digital, which provides digital…
Megan Morrone / Axios: OpenAI launches Codex Micro, a $230 desktop keypad built in collaboration with keyboard maker Work Louder, with backlit keys, a rotary knob, and a tiny joystick — OpenAI opened orders…
Lucinda Shen / Axios: Spectro Cloud, an AI infrastucture company helping manage token costs, raised a $100M Series D from AMD, LG, others at a $1B+ valuation, up from $750M in 2024 — Spectro Cloud, an AI…
Ryan Lawler / Axios: NYC-based Hadrius, which provides AI-native compliance tools for financial services, raised a $22M Series A led by CRV with participation from Y Combinator — Hadrius, which makes compliance…
Megan Morrone / Axios: Apple alleges that a former Apple engineer kept a work-issued Apple laptop and exploited a bug to access Apple's cloud file storage while employed by OpenAI — Apple is suing OpenAI for…