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Friday, September 18, 2026 · 1 min read

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Angle Health Secondary
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D-Robotics Series C
$400M
$298M
Angle Health Series C
$200M
Naive.ai Venture round
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$100M
MIND Series B · led by Crosspoint Capital · val. $300M · $10M run-rate
$72M
Luzern Risk Series B
$45M

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Claude Projects v2 💼, Google family agent 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦,  — TLDR AI 09/18
NewsletterTLDR AI
Claude Projects v2 💼, Google family agent 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, 
OpenAI incident report or science fiction?
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to turn product photos into campaigns with ChatGPT
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Inside OpenAI's log of misbehaving models
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
OpenAI just released six new reports on its models misbehaving during training, including wild details like rewriting their own jailbreak-style instructions…
[AINews] not much happened today
NewsletterLatent Space
a quiet day
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Agility's new 'safer' humanoid
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Agility Robotics wants its new humanoid out of the safety cage and onto the warehouse floor, working alongside people. Digit 5 is bigger, stronger, and faster…
New home for Cowork
NewsletterBen's Bites
the successor of LLMs
Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon
PodcastNo Priors · 38 min
As generative AI hits hardware and latency bottlenecks, Stanford professor, diffusion pioneer, and Inception co-founder and CEO Stefano Ermon is betting on a radical new architectu
Why Everyone Is Getting Excited About Personal AI Agents
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 30 min
Personal AI agents are gaining traction as tools like Meta’s Muse make everyday tasks easier to delegate. NLW explores what changed and why consumers are finally getting excited. I
Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement
PodcastDwarkesh Podcast · 80 min
New episode with Noam Brown. We talk about multi-agent, Navier-Stokes, and what the current explosion of maths progress tells us about what happens once you automate AI research. A
No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench
PodcastThe Cognitive Revolution · 68 min
Zapier CEO Wade Foster joins Nathan to explore the shift toward headless AI tools and how Zapier MCP brings workflows and context directly into users' daily drivers. Drawing on dat

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