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Saturday, September 19, 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.

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$1.17B
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Angle Health Secondary
$400M
$298M
Angle Health Series C
$200M
Naive.ai Venture round
$120M
$100M
Mantic Seed · led by Radical Ventures
$25M
HH
Hello Haven Pre-seed · led by Mayfield
$15M
Synapath Seed · led by CDH Investments · val. $197M
$15M

Newsletters & podcasts today

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∇ Guide: Jev, RLCD, and the Reinvention of the AI Classifier
NewsletterTuring Post
Why Jev – TypeSafe’s System One Model – caught developers’ attention, which older ideas it combines, and what you can already build without it
The Overhang
NewsletterOne Useful Thing
Using your deep knowledge, wide knowledge, taste, and agency
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Meta's less-creepy smart glasses
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Meta may have found the easiest way to make smart glasses less creepy: take out the camera. Its rumored Luna glasses swap covert-filming fears for six…
Meta’s Agent Security, The Navier-Stokes Controversy, Fraud on Claude
NewsletterThe Batch
The Batch News & Insights: The loudest voices stoking fears about AI dangers have made tremendous headway in the past two weeks.
Claude Projects v2 💼, Google family agent 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦,  — TLDR AI 09/18
NewsletterTLDR AI
Claude Projects v2 💼, Google family agent 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦, 
The AI Challenges Businesses Are Actually Focused On Right Now
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 30 min
While AI safety dominates the headlines, businesses are focused on agent security, shifting model choices, and control over their own data. NLW explores how the slowdown debate cou
⚡️ A Worm With 302 Neurons Inspired Their Architecture — Ramin Hasani, Liquid AI
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 70 min
Watch the full show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_9TCu_21SE

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