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Wednesday, September 16, 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
8
$3.58B · 2 M&A
Members
0
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AI Lounge Index
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last 30 days
Atome Acquisition · acquired by Grab · est. $100M to $500M
$1.49B
Temporal Technologies Series E · led by Lightspeed Venture Partners · val. $12.55B · $250M+ run-rate
$550M
Anew Labs Series A
$290M
Exein Venture round
$270M
Headspace Acquisition · acquired by Sword Health
$250M
Ridgeline Series E
$250M
OpenEvidence Series E
$250M
Euclyd Series A
$231M

Newsletters & podcasts today

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Jev ⚡, Periodic Neon 🧬, Gemini 3.8 Live 💬 — TLDR AI 09/16
NewsletterTLDR AI
Jev ⚡, Periodic Neon 🧬, Gemini 3.8 Live 💬
ChatGPT's co-inventor drops a model that can't hallucinate
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
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ChatGPT co-creator launches a new kind of AI
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
ChatGPT co-creator launches groundbreaking AI model that ditches text generation entirely, reshaping how AI makes autonomous decisions within software systems.
Can Skills Learned in Games Transfer to Real-World Work?
NewsletterLatent Space
Good Start Labs trained an AI on a railroad game — and one version improved at financial research. The difference was the training design.
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U.S. confirms weapons are in orbit
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
The U.S. military confirmed for the first time that it has weapons in orbit. Officials won’t say what they are, how many exist, or what they can do, but China…
Good luck slowing this down
NewsletterBen's Bites
plus what’s new in AI this week
Muse review: The personal AI agent that gets consumer UX right
PodcastHow I AI · 37 min
I spent a few hours putting Meta’s Muse, its new personal AI agent, through a real first-pass test: onboarding, calendar management, goal setting, a one-shot family morning newslet
Trump Rails Against AI Slowdown "Hoax"
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 26 min
Trump is pushing back against calls for an AI slowdown, dismissing warnings of AI catastrophe as a hoax. NLW examines Jensen Huang’s response, Obama’s support for slowing developme
The Balance of AI Power: Anton Leicht on Politics, Pacing Deals, and Muddling Through Well
PodcastThe Cognitive Revolution · 131 min
Anton Leicht, a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and author of Threading the Needle, joins Nathan Labenz to explore how political and institutional power ca

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