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Wednesday, September 2, 2026 · 1 min read

Everything that moved in AI, the news that matters, every deal, new research, podcasts, what members shipped, and what's on this week.

Deals today
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$6.47B · 2 M&A
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AI Lounge Index
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Crusoe Series F · led by Valor Equity Partners · val. $30B · ~$2.2B run-rate
$3B
Cornerstone Robotics Corporate round
$700M
Wonderful Series D · led by Goldman Sachs · val. $5B
$550M
Lovelytics Acquisition · acquired by CDW Corporation · est. $1M to $10M
$525M
Console Acquisition · acquired by Palo Alto Networks
$500M
VAST Series B
$446M
GMI Cloud Debt financing
$445M
Upwind Security Growth · led by TCV · val. $3.8B
$300M

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Fable 5.1 kicks off launch week at the frontier
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Fable 5.1 launches as AI leaders shift from caution to innovation. Plus: choosing the right dedicated AI device for your needs.
PRs NOT Welcome: How Top AI Open Source Projects Are Managing Thousands of Contributors
NewsletterLatent Space
Vercel’s AI SDK, Astro, Flue and tldraw are replacing drive-by community PRs with software factories, where teams of agents apply fixes and features.
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Dyson puts AI in a $499 toothbrush
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Dyson's new $499 AI toothbrush features a camera to monitor your mouth while brushing, flossing, and rinsing in one pass. Plus: Apple's leadership transition…
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NewsletterBen's Bites
Claude Code limits and Infinite Slop
Muse Code 👨‍💻, Runway Solaris ☀️, OpenClaw 2.0 🤖 — TLDR AI 09/01
NewsletterTLDR AI
Muse Code 👨‍💻, Runway Solaris ☀️, OpenClaw 2.0 🤖
Grok Bot vs. OpenClaw: How I replaced my entire agent stack
PodcastHow I AI · 36 min
I’m running about 30 active agents at any given moment, and in this episode I break down my full Grok Bot setup: what it is, how it compares to OpenClaw, and the nine bots I’ve bui
OpenClaw 2.0 Shows Where AI Agents Are Going Next
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 26 min
OpenClaw 2.0 introduces a multiplayer workspace where people and agents can share context, steer work, and hand projects off without reconstructing everything from scratch. NLW arg
Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face
PodcastDwarkesh Podcast · 141 min
Ajeya Cotra is a researcher at METR, where she works on threat modeling for loss-of-control risks from advanced AI. Before that, she led the technical AI safety program at what is

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