Getty Puts a Price on the AI Boundary
Getty’s OpenAI license sent its shares up about 200% in premarket trading on the day Google funded A24 through an AI partnership and Meta pushed Instagram toward longer-form programming.
Sources: John Ternus gets ready to put his imprint on Apple's industrial design team, which has lost a true seat at Apple's executive table over the past decade
Also: The 2027 iPhone and AirPods plans. — The No. 1 priority for new Apple CEO John Ternus should be revamping …
Valve says Steam Machine, its new living room-friendly PC, will start at $1,049 for the 512GB base model, and go on sale starting June 29
You can register your interest starting today, and the first emails letting people buy one will go out on June 29th.
Investigation: Polymarket is paying creators to make deceptive videos about winning bets, targeting users in the US, where its primary crypto platform is banned
The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation
Samsung rolls out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to all South Korean staff and global DX division staff; OpenAI calls it one of its largest enterprise deployments
OpenAI said on the 22nd that it will supply ChatGPT Enterprise and the AI-based work automation platform “Codex” …
WiseTech's shares fell 18%+ after Australian police probed co-founder Richard White over sex exploitation claims; WiseTech shares are down 70%+ in the past year
Federal police are investigating billionaire businessman Richard White over claims he exploited a woman's immigration status …
Satya Nadella says the public wouldn't tolerate a few AI labs “doing all of the learning for the world”, as Microsoft moves to provide low-cost models and tools
In interview, Microsoft's CEO offers a blistering critique of AI power balance and calls for earning society's permission
Meta invests $900M into Indian fintech Cred for a ~20% stake, and plans to appoint Cred founder Kunal Shah as the leader of WhatsApp, replacing Will Cathcart
Meta Platforms Inc. is investing $900 million into Indian fintech startup Cred, with plans to appoint its founder, Kunal Shah, the new leader of WhatsApp.
Sakana AI launches Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system accessible through a single model API, claiming Fugu Ultra matches Fable and Mythos on benchmarks
Last night, the increasingly enterprise-focused AI startup Sakana launched Fugu, a multi-agent orchestration system …
President Trump signs two executive orders aimed at speeding the development of advanced quantum computers and mitigating the security threats they present
Administration set an ambitious new 2028 target for a system that can conduct scientific research
SK Hynix overtakes Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company, closing up 5.6% for a ~$1.4T market cap; South Korea's Kospi index is up 117% YTD
The South Korean memory-chip maker's market capitalization hit $1.362 trillion — Memory-chip maker SK Hynix has overtaken Samsung Electronics …
SpaceX signs a computing deal worth up to $6.3B with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300s at Colossus 2; Reflection will pay $150M per month through 2029
SpaceX has signed a major computing power agreement with Reflection AI, making the open-source artificial intelligence startup …
Toto, Japan's largest toilet maker, plans to invest ~$495M over five years to expand its semiconductor materials unit, targeting R&D for 1nm chipmaking tech
TOKYO/KITAKYUSHU, Japan — Bathroom fixtures maker Toto plans to invest 80 billion yen ($495 million) in the next five years …
Google invests in independent movie studio A24 as part of a new AI partnership; sources say Google is investing ~$75M, roughly equal to Thrive's 2024 investment
Search giant is putting about $75 million into the film company as part of an artificial-intelligence research partnership
China adds 10 US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to its export controls and bans government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril
In a joint statement, Five Eyes agencies warn AI models capable of taking down governments and businesses are mere months away, urging leaders to “act now”
Signal agencies in Australia, the US, the UK, New Zealand and Canada sound alarm after Trump blocks foreign nationals from Anthropic's Fable AI model
Sources: Meta internally exposed data from its employee-tracking program meant to help train its AI models, including full prompts and private conversations
Employees had previously raised concerns about the initiative, which involves collecting workers' keystroke data to train AI models.
A look at JD Vance's “AI doctrine”, which combines pro-innovation VC principles, worker protections, and concerns about power concentration in dominant AI labs
The vice president is making a case that is part Silicon Valley, part MAGA. — In early 2025, j. d. vance paid …Forums:r/politicsForums:r/politics:What Does J. D. Vance Think of AI
Analysis: Anthropic may have talked its way into an export ban, as its 2026 statements and social media posts used 8x more AI risk-related terms than OpenAI
FT analysis shows company warned about dangers of advanced AI far more than rival OpenAI this year
UK-based AI law firm Garfield, which received regulatory approval in 2025, wins a case in the English courts for the first time; the case focused on unpaid fees
Freelancer paid about £400 for technology to draft documents for £7,000 claim — An AI law firm that uses technology instead …
Source: Morgan Stanley is pitching data center developers to use leveraged loans rather than bonds, and estimates that ~$15B in such loans will be sold in 2026
Morgan Stanley, one of the most active banks in financing data center developers, is now pitching some of those same clients …
A profile of Sarah Polcz, the UC Davis law professor that Bernie Sanders' team consulted weekly while developing his AI company sovereign wealth fund proposal
A couple of weekends ago, Sarah Polcz, a University of California, Davis, law professor, and her husband, Adam Brown, a top scientist at Google's DeepMind …
Getty Images signs a licensing deal with OpenAI, letting its image library appear in ChatGPT's search and discovery tools; GETY jumps 90%+ and is down 10%+ YTD
Shares of Getty Images Holdings Inc. jumped about 200% in premarket trading on Monday after the photography repository announced a licensing deal with OpenAI.
OpenAI unveils an updated GPT-5.5-Cyber model, launches the Patch the Planet initiative in partnership with Trail of Bits to fix open source bugs, and more
Amid concerns about AI models' cybersecurity capabilities, OpenAI revealed an improved version of GPT-5.5-Cyber and its “Patch the Planet” …
Air Space Intelligence won an $875M, 12-year FAA contract to develop AI tools that map flight trajectories and identify areas of congestion to reduce delays
Air Space Intelligence Inc. won a US government contract to develop artificial intelligence technologies for managing flight traffic …
Alphabet shares close down 5% on Monday following the departure of Google DeepMind VP John Jumper, the company's second top AI executive to leave in a week
Alphabet Inc. shares tumbled on Monday following the departure of another high-profile artificial intelligence leader to a rival.
Electric bike rental company Lime is seeking to raise up to $180.9M in its US IPO, offering 6.7M shares at $24 to $26 each, giving it an up to $1.7B valuation
Lime, the electric bike and scooter rental firm backed by Uber Technologies Inc., and it shareholders are seeking to raise …
SF-based Humble Robotics, which is developing an electric, self-driving cabless freight truck with 200 miles range and 55 mph max speed, raised $24M
- 7 min Click here to listen to this article — San Francisco startup Humble Robotics has raised $24 million to build an electric …
JD.com founder Richard Liu says robots will replace the company's 700K delivery workers “sooner or later”, and it will help retrain them in robot maintenance
China's rapid adoption of technology threatens millions of gig-economy jobs, policymakers fear
Instagram is testing horizontal video on Instagram for TV, plans to experiment with longer-form storytelling and episodic series, and launches on Samsung TV
The Meta-owned company is going decidedly retro by experimenting with time-honored video formats with its creators.
NYC-based Prosper AI, whose healthcare AI tool is designed to answer patient phone calls, raised a $30M Series A led by a16z, taking its total funding to $35M
Prosper AI, a health care administration agent company, raised $30 million in Series A funding led Andreessen Horowitz, co-CEO Xavier de Gracia tells Axios Pro exclusively.
Netherlands-based Nearfield Instruments, which makes atomic force microscopes to measure chip features, raised $380M led by Fidelity at a $1.6B valuation
Nearfield Instruments, a Netherlands-based firm whose machines help measure the features on advanced semiconductors …
San Diego-based Aether AI, which is building “causal world models” to teach robots cause and effect instead of pattern-matching, raised a $20M seed led by MPCi
Tencent starts testing Xiaowei, its new AI assistant powered by WeLM and DeepSeek models, in its WeChat app in China, as part of its efforts to catch up in AI
Bain says it uses AI coding tools to recreate pieces of target companies' software, making hundreds of rough prototypes in recent years as part of due diligence
Private equity groups swiftly recreate software products to gauge their competitive advantages — Private equity investors …
Japan's top five chip equipment makers posted their first-ever fall in combined China sales, down 10% for the year ended March 31, as China boosts local players
TOKYO — Japan's top five manufacturers of chipmaking equipment posted a 10% decline in combined sales to China for the year ended March 31 …
Chevron signs a 20-year deal with Microsoft to provide natural-gas power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US
Chevron Corp. signed a 20-year deal with Microsoft Corp. to provide natural-gas fired power for a proposed West Texas data center, which could be one of the biggest in the US.
Sources: Vimeo owner Bending Spoons seeks to raise ~$1.62B in a US IPO, selling 58M shares at $26 to $28 apiece, at a valuation of $19B at the top of the range
Bending Spoons, an Italian technology company that acquires and revamps software businesses, is seeking to raise as much as $1.62 billion …
PitchBook: defense tech companies making drones, battlefield AI, and more raised $12.3B across 175 deals in 2026 so far, up from a $9.95B from 158 deals in 2025
Funding this year has already surpassed 2025 total as soaring valuations fuel fears of a hype cycle
Nvidia unveils Halos, a safety-focused OS developed from autonomous vehicle tech and designed to run on IGX Thor hardware for humanoid robots, and opens a lab
Nvidia Corp. is working to make humanoid robots safer around people, arguing that they'll need to handle split-second decisions …
Analysis: Taiwanese car display chip maker Himax, which makes driver integrated circuits for Ferrari, VW, and others, nets its founders a $1B combined net worth
Biing-seng Wu has spent most of his career developing tiny chips that tell pixels on flat-screen displays how and when to light up.
Filing: Oracle's global workforce fell by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months to 141,000 as of May 31; the company says AI adoption has led to reductions
Oracle Corp. reduced its workforce by 21,000 employees in the past 12 months, a wider scale than previously known …
S&P and IBM: 22.4% of global cyberattacks in 2024 hit Japan, the most targeted country, as it tries to improve its legacy IT systems against AI-powered threats
Masayoshi Son isn't known for understatement. So when the SoftBank Group Corp. founder gathered business leaders in Tokyo to warn of the …
Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states
Upscale, which is building AI networking infrastructure to rival Cisco, raised a $190M Series A-1 at a $2B valuation, up from $1B after raising $200M in January
Every time computing has fundamentally changed, a new networking company has risen with it. When PCs started connecting …
Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely as its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US investors
Henny Sender is the founder and managing partner of Apsara Advisory, a strategic consultancy for financial services companies.
Crypto trading app Fomo raised a $75M Series B led by Index at a $550M valuation, taking its total funding to ~$94M, and claims to add 3,500 new users per day
Two established investors are feeling crypto FOMO. Index and Union Square Ventures have backed the crypto startup Fomo …
Sources: Shanghai-based Coowa, which builds embodied AI robots, plans to file a Hong Kong IPO; Coowa was valued at $3B+ after raising $600M+ in its latest round
Sources: marketing tech startup AppsFlyer raised a $1B Series E at a $2.7B post-money valuation; Moloco, Google, Meta, and Unity acquire minority stakes
AppsFlyer has raised more than $1 billion in Series E funding at a $2.7 billion post-money valuation, Axios has learned from sources familiar with the financing.
As Europe falls behind the US and China in consumer AI, its engineering companies and AI startups are turning to industrial AI applications to boost efficiency
Valve Steam Machine review: much smaller than PS5, surprisingly smooth, and navigable with any modern gamepad but very expensive and needs manual configuration
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Sources: Virgin Media O2 and VodafoneThree have deployed tech to disable phones stolen from their stores, after phone makers resisted broader antitheft measures
Shenzhen-listed Apple supplier Lingyi iTech seeks to raise ~$1.1B in a June 26 Hong Kong IPO, as the electronic parts maker expands into AI hardware and robots
Groq raised $650M led by Disruptive and Infinitum after its Nvidia deal, aiming to hit 200 MW in capacity by the end of 2027, following a $750M raise in 2025
Groq Inc. raised $650 million in a new funding round aimed at expanding its data center capacity and helping the onetime chip startup become …
SoftBank says it is struggling to find startups in Latin America ready for major investments and has completed only two new deals over the past two years
SpaceX announces an offering of senior unsecured notes and discloses it has ~$100.8B in cash; SPCX closes down 16.43% in its third consecutive losing session
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