1 July 2026

Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)

Ram Iyer / TechCrunch:
Venice AI, which offers access to 200+ AI models while allowing users to retain their privacy, raised a $65M Series A led by Dragonfly at a $1B valuation  —  Concerns over the impact of AI chatbots on mental health, personal safety, harassment, and disinformation have forced AI developers …

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Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company; Denise Moreno is named CMO (Sara Fischer/Axios)

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Meta names Chief Marketing Officer Alex Schultz as its first-ever chief data officer, to manage AI analytics across the company; Denise Moreno is named CMO  —  Meta has named its chief marketing officer, Alex Schultz, as its new chief data officer, Schultz told Axios.

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Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is "seeing strong momentum" (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber dismissed two leaders at its AI data labeling business as part of a broader leadership transition at the unit, which it says is “seeing strong momentum”  —  Uber Technologies Inc. has dismissed two tech leaders at its nascent AI data labeling business, shaking up a key division …

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B2B sales workspace startup Aligned raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $73.8M, and says it has 1,000+ customers (Chris Metinko/Axios)

Chris Metinko / Axios:
B2B sales workspace startup Aligned raised a $60M Series B led by PeakSpan Capital, taking its total funding to $73.8M, and says it has 1,000+ customers  —  Aligned, a sales workspace for B2B sellers, buyers, and AI agents, locked up a $60 million Series B, co-founder and CEO Gal Aga tells Axios Pro exclusively.

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Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised $35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
Oxmiq, which aims to combine GPUs, CPUs, and a tensor engine into a single block of IP that it can license, raised $35M led by Samsung Catalyst Fund and Fudomo  —  Artificial intelligence startup Oxmiq said on Wednesday it raised $35 million from investors in order to build chip design architecture …

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