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Source: WaPo will not replace departed PR chief Kathy Baird as it focuses on organic media coverage around its talent and products, rather than traditional PR (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-me

Axios Media Trends - WaPo won't replace comms chief

Axios Explains: Inside ICE's superpowers (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/29/axios-explains-inside-ice-superpowers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250629/p21#a250629p21

A group of 17 GOP governors write to Senate majority leader and House speaker urging for the state AI bill moratorium to be removed from the reconciliation bill (Ashley Gold/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Exclusive: Republican governors want state AI pause out of budget bill
Many Republican-run states have passed AI-related laws and don't want to see them knocked down.

Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors - Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/05/thousands-of-asus-routers-are-being-hit-with-stealthy-persistent-backdoors/

Should not be necessary given the ruling against Trump’s White House in 2020, but here we are anyway:
“National Association of the Deaf Sues White House for Access to Press Briefings”
https://www.nad.org/2025/05/28/national-as

word_assoc: Edinburgh word associations
A network of word associations showing the count of such associations as collected from subjects, from the Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT). Each node represents a word, and a directed edge (i, j) denotes that word i was used as a stimulus to which word j was given as a response. Multiple edges are allowed.
This network has 23132 nodes and 312342 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted, Multigraph

Niural, whose AI agents help companies automate payroll, benefits, vendor payments, and compliance, raised a $31M Series A led by Marathon Management Partners (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/06/25/niural-31-milli…

Exclusive: Niural lands $31M to streamline global payroll
Its AI simplifies cross-border pay, benefits and compliance.

Rupert Murdoch's media empire is playing both sides of the Trump-Epstein scandal, with the WSJ breaking bombshell news that Fox News is largely ignoring (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/26/trump-rupert-murdoch-wsj-fox

Trump-Epstein saga splinters the Murdoch empire
For President Trump, Murdoch's loyalty to his business goals has been both helpful and harmful.

Salient, which uses AI to automate the post-loan origination process for lenders, raised a $60M Series A led by a16z, a source says at a $350M valuation (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/28/loan-servicing-ai-salient-6…

Exclusive: Loan servicing startup Salient raises $60M Series A
The process is still mostly manual but banks are investing tech in the area.

How Axios rebranded conservative ideology as objectivity (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/axios-and-the-scam-of-unbiased-journalism
http://www.memeorandum.com/250728/p26#a250728p26