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Saturday, September 12, 2026 · 1 min read

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Shanghai Enflame Technology IPO · val. $9.1B
$912M
KinetixAI Seed · led by F&G Venture · val. $443M
$74.5M (CNY 500.0M)
Archy Series C
$50M
FAZE Security Seed · led by New Era Capital Partners · val. $39M
$6M
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Ed.ai Seed · led by Bpifrance
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COUNT Seed · val. $22M
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Grubel Pre-seed · led by Point Nine
€3M
QClairvoyance Quantum Labs Seed · led by MSN Nextech Ventures · val. $17M
$3.1M (INR 300.0M)

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Apple turns Watch into AI notetaker
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Apple wants your Watch to start taking notes for you. A new Siri Recap feature will summarize your conversations in the background, bringing ambient AI tech…
OpenAI and Anthropic fight it out for the top overall spot, while Google, Meta, and Microsoft all release transcription models
NewsletterThe Batch
The Batch News & Insights: When you’re skilled at AI Engineering, your best work won’t be merely implementing a product that someone else...
Telling AI to design is hard
NewsletterBen's Bites
Ben’s session #6
Open-Source AI & Open Models Reading List
NewsletterInterconnects
How to get up to speed on open models and their implications.
Agents API 🤖, Cognition SWE-2 👨‍💻, Muse Shared Agents 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 — TLDR AI 09/11
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Agents API 🤖, Cognition SWE-2 👨‍💻, Muse Shared Agents 🧑‍🤝‍🧑
What to Use the Latest AI Tools For
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 32 min
GPT‑Live 1 opens up a much wider range of real-time voice and vision applications, from customer service and sales to education, healthcare, and hands-free work. NLW breaks down wh
AI researchers debate how close we are to recursive self-improvement
PodcastDwarkesh Podcast · 97 min
New episode with John Schulman , Beren Millidge and Charlie O’Neill . I got together with some of the most insightful AI researchers I know who are at the openish companies, becaus

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