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title: "Merlin Ventures: $75 Million Inaugural Fund Closed"
description: President Trump on Thursday scuttled plans to implement federal oversight of frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Mythos and OpenAI’s GPT-5.5, stoking fears that developers will continue to have free rein over a powerful technology that threatens corporate and national security.
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# [Merlin Ventures: $75 Million Inaugural Fund Closed](https://www.merlincyber.com/insights/in-the-news/merlin-ventures-75-million-inaugural-fund-closed)

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