The Bezos Earth Fund announced a $26 million grant for the nonprofit Earth Fire Alliance and its satellite-based wildfire detection program, Axios' Ben Geman reports.

🛰️ The money — alongside support from Google and others — will help fund the launch of three FireSat satellites this summer.

• The groups say they'll "provide wildfire monitoring at least twice daily over critical geographies, including a focus on the Amazon Basin — one of the most fire-vulnerable regions on Earth."

💰 The funding is the largest-ever single philanthropic grant for wildfire detection, the groups say.

• They add that the program could help protect homes, communities and biodiversity — and cut CO2 emissions from wildfires by up to 10% annually.

🔥 Wildfires are a major driver of deforestation, which worsens climate change.

• They accounted for 42% of tree cover loss in 2025, per World Resources Institute data.

🌎 What's next: The Earth Fire Alliance says it hopes to have dozens of satellites operating by the early 2030s that can "monitor every point on Earth every 20 minutes."

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AI systems are replicating the anti-LGBTQ bias and misinformation problems that have long plagued social platforms, Axios' Ina Fried writes from a new GLAAD report.

• Some of the problems flagged in the report: biased training data, privacy risks, automated discrimination, misinformation and suppressing legitimate speech.
• The issues extend beyond LGBTQ users to other minorities and groups in political disfavor, GLAAD says.

The report offers blunt and concrete recommendations for the AI industry: fix the biased foundation, don't automate discrimination, maintain human oversight, respect data privacy and engage civil society.

• Go deeper ... Read the report.

1. 🌊 Tropical Storm Arthur became the first named storm of the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season this morning. Forecasters are warning of potentially life-threatening flooding in the Southeast. More from Axios' Carlie Kollath Wells.
2. 🎸 An array of top musicians are performing at tomorrow's grand opening of the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, including Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, John Legend and more. How to watch.
3. 📱 New York City is getting a new area code: 465, its eighth. OG New Yorkers will stick with 212, in use since 1947 — and a point of pride for those who have it. N.Y. Times explainer (gift link).

Axios CEO Jim VandeHei writes in his weekly C-Suite newsletter:

The most important concept in AI right now isn't agents — it's "loops."

👩‍💻 The smartest builders have stopped prompting AI directly.

• They design systems called "loops" that prompt AI automatically, check the results, remember what worked and improve with every run.

My version that helps surface ideas for my newsletter: I ask for vital, verified info for CEOs. Then my agents scout, research and cite. I judge what matters. A story repository stores that judgment and improves. And my next brief starts smarter than the last.

🔑 That self-improvement aspect is the key.

• Every cycle, it gets a little better — or a little worse, depending on what's in the judgment layer.

If you're a CEO or on a CEO's team: Ask to join Jim's new weekly Axios C-Suite newsletter.