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Tuesday, September 15, 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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$5.1B · 3 M&A
Members
0
0 new today
AI Lounge Index
-8.0%
last 30 days
Mechanize Acquisition · acquired by Google · val. $1.5B
$1.5B
Atome Acquisition · acquired by Grab · est. $100M to $500M
$1.49B
Positron Series C · led by Valor Equity Partners · val. $5B
$875M
Glass Imaging Acquisition · acquired by OpenAI · est. $1M to $10M
$300M
Exein Venture round
$270M
Tabby Series F
$233M
Euclyd Series A
$231M
Cornelis Networks Growth · led by IAG Capital Partners
$205M

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The sovereign AI race is on
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to build a personal research assistant with Claude
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Trump, China both shoot down the AI slowdown
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Trump and China reject AI slowdown proposals as both governments dismiss safety concerns, while new ELI5 skill simplifies complex topics. Stay updated on the…
Navier–Stokes, RubyGems attacked, GIS and Blender with GPT-6 Astra
NewsletterSimon Willison's Newsletter
Plus a Datasette security release, and a Pluribus Fabergé egg
Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive
NewsletterLatent Space
Richard Socher is an NLP OG and CEO of You.com, who has now spun out an even more ambitious startup focused on RSI — already worth $5B!
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Japan’s latest answer to home robots
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
The humanoid industry has spent billions teaching robots to walk through doorways. MW, a two-year-old Tokyo startup, skipped the legs entirely: its…
Amodei slows frontier 🛑, ARC-AGI-4 🧠, Cursor Projects 👨‍💻 — TLDR AI 09/14
NewsletterTLDR AI
Amodei slows frontier 🛑, ARC-AGI-4 🧠, Cursor Projects 👨‍💻
Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion
PodcastTraining Data · 65 min
Starting a company is hard. Reinventing your company for AI as a public company with quarterly earnings results is even harder. Aaron Levie has pulled off the transition with Box a
Even Other AI Labs Are Rallying Around Anthropic’s Slowdown Proposal
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 37 min
Leaders at rival AI labs are publicly backing Anthropic’s proposal for an AI slowdown, marking a significant shift in the debate over how the technology should advance. NLW examine
Humanity’s Last Invention — Richard Socher of Recursive
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 92 min
At 1:09:00 we talk about the rise of AI x Finance, and AIE NYC is one month away - our hotel block is 97% sold out, get tix & travel ASAP - we will announce speakers from Bridgewat

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