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Tuesday, September 22, 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
$1.52B · 1 M&A
Members
0
0 new today
AI Lounge Index
+1.8%
last 30 days
RealSense Acquisition · acquired by Cognex · est. $10M to $50M
$500M
Cyera Series G extension · led by Goldman Sachs · val. $12B · $150M+ ARR
$400M
Verda Growth · led by Emergence Capital · val. $1B
$189M
Xingyun Venture round
$119M
Micro1 Growth · led by Microsoft · val. $4B · $500M+ ARR
$100M
Ema Series B · led by Creaegis
$77M
Firecrawl Series B
$75M
$56M

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OpenAI claims it solved 100 open math problems
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to create a project intelligence database with Notion AI
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Amazon shuts out Meta's Muse
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Meta’s Muse AI assistant climbed to the top of the U.S. App Store promising to run your digital errands, but now Amazon has slammed the door. Amazon says the…
😺 Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse from shopping
NewsletterThe Neuron
PLUS: Shopify jumped in, while Grok 4.7 posted a weird engineering win.
Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models
NewsletterSimon Willison's Newsletter
Plus Gemini Live, and a pelican riding a bicycle in 1988
🦞 LIVE NOW: Build a personal AI agent you own
NewsletterThe Neuron
Meta has Muse. xAI has Grok Bot. OpenClaw lets you run a personal agent on your own machines, with your own memory, tools, and data.
Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
NewsletterLatent Space
The definitive Jev podcast with its lead creator.
Jev: System One models for Prod, not God — with Diogo Almeida, CEO, TypeSafe AI
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 141 min
Tickets for AIE NYC now open, and apply for the invite-only AIE CODE . Join us ! We have an unusual relationship with today’s guest: for years since coauthoring the InstructGPT pap
The State of the AI Debate
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 27 min
Trump wants an AI Force, politicians are pushing kill switches, and calls for a slowdown keep running into the same question about China. Ahead of this week’s Trump–Xi meeting, NLW

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