Why it matters: Starbucks tumbler drops — including last November's Bearista launch — already generate fast sellouts and resale buzz. Adding Miffy's global fandom and social-media appeal could supercharge demand.
LIV Golf is better known for its financial banking than for its product, but now is asking investors for a chance to flip the script.
Driving the news: Axios has learned that the league, which recently lost the support of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, will seek to raise up to $250 million from new investors.
U.S. power giants NextEra Energy and Dominion Energy announced plans Monday to merge in the largest electricity deal — by far — since the mainstreaming of AI.
Why it matters: The deal, if approved by regulators, would enable massive scale as the industry looks to expand generation and related infrastructure to meet rising demand.
The tech and AI infrastructureindustries are stepping up efforts to challenge the narrative that consumers are getting stuck with the bill for data center growth.
Why it matters:New analysis arguing the AI boom hasn't hit household budgets arrives amid a backlash to huge data centers.
⚠️ A bad, expensive precedent: It looks like both parties will try to redraw districts yearly instead of once a decade — all because it worked for Republicans this cycle, slicing perhaps a dozen or so seats their way for '26.
An ironclad law of politics: All new tactics by one party — no matter how unsavory — get copied and amplified by the other. Democrats plan to spin up their own challenges in several states next year.
Why this matters to CEOs: Well, we just injected even more volatility into politics. Both parties will beg for more cash to compete more vigorously at the state level as they aim to tilt state and national politics.
More than half of my exec team has already built personal chief-of-staff AI agents — connected to email, to-do lists, goals and meetings. They didn't wait for an IT rollout. They just built them.
Why it matters: The first-mover advantage in this age of asymmetry is structural, not incremental. Leaders who understand agents as a management layer — not a productivity tool — will architect organizations the rest of us can't compete with on headcount alone.
You soon won't just be paying for software — you'll also foot the bill for the AI thinking your AI-powered software does.
It's worth 60 seconds to understand what that actually means because it will start showing up in your finance reviews.
Why it matters: Per-seat pricing was predictable, but it's about to become a relic. In the AI era, costs will increasingly be based on how many tokens you burn through.
I'm ruthless about my information consumption time — filtering in smart content, filtering out dumb or mediocre stuff.
I also have the perspective of having hired, fired or worked alongside many of today's most talented journalists as the CEO of Axios and Politico, and as a White House/political reporter for The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal before that.
No one in media owns the immigrant story the way Kareem Rahma does right now.
He created "Subway Takes," a viral social-media interview series filmed on the New York City subway, and "Keep the Meter Running," which sees him asking cab drivers where they want to go.
Why you should care: He's the trust layer for how urban, multicultural, under-45 people think about work and the American dream. That's a massive chunk of your workforce, and he reaches them in ways brand campaigns can't.
Kalshi is joining the National Council on Problem Gambling, becoming the first prediction market to do so.
Why it matters: The move is an acknowledgment that certain users may be engaging in troubling financial behavior on the platform, even as the company continues to refer to user activity as "trading," not gambling.
President Trump told Axios in a phone call that "the clock is ticking" for Iran and warned that if the Iranian regime doesn't come with a better offer for a deal, "they are going to get hit much harder."
Why it matters: U.S. officials say Trump wants a deal to end the war, but Iran's rejection of many of his demands and refusal to make meaningful concessions on its nuclear program has put the military option back on the table.
