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Wednesday, September 23, 2026 · 2 min read

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TEKEVER Series D
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RealSense Acquisition · acquired by Cognex · est. $10M to $50M
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Cyera Series G extension · led by Goldman Sachs · val. $12B · $150M+ ARR
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Snorkel AI Series E · led by S32 · val. $3.2B · $375M run-rate
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Enveda Series E
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Verda Growth · led by Emergence Capital · val. $1B
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METYCLE Debt financing
$150M
Brahma AI Growth · led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management · val. $2B
$150M

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OpenAI & Anthropic unveil new models and generous usage
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to automate new-hire onboarding with Grok Bot
😺 GPT-6 Sol vs Claude Opus 5.5
NewsletterThe Neuron
PLUS: We live-tested the new models, then found the real story: cost.
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The pacing era's first launch day
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Anthropic and OpenAI launch competing AI models 90 minutes apart, with Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 variants reshaping the frontier in the pacing era.
🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
NewsletterLatent Space
We talked to Google’s Oscar winning “Giganerd” about automating science, solving climate change, and how future generations can contribute to science in the age of superintelligent
😺 GPT-6 Sol / Luna vs. Claude Opus 5.5 LIVE
NewsletterThe Neuron
OpenAI and Anthropic dropped three new models today. We’re testing what actually changed, what the benchmarks miss, and which one you should reach for.
Opus 5.5 vs. GPT-6 Sol: which model won my blind taste test?
PodcastHow I AI · 39 min
I got up early to record an Opus 5.5 review. Then Anthropic and OpenAI dropped new models on the same morning, and I decided to do something I’d never done before: take the How I A
🔬 An Oscar, Two Asteroids, and the Algorithm in Your sklearn: John Platt on AI for Science
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 121 min
How often do you get to talk to a guest who has both an Academy Award and who invented textbook machine learning algorithms? John Platt has an Oscar , two textbook algorithms , two
Agent Wars!
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 31 min
Meta’s Muse has overtaken ChatGPT in the App Store, and Amazon has responded by blocking it from shopping on its site. Shopify is opening its doors instead, setting up a fight over
I left Claude for months. Opus 5.5 is why I'm back
PodcastHow I AI · 25 min
I’ve been off Claude for months. Not because it got dumb, but because it got annoying. The rambling, the hedging, the preachy little disclaimers on tasks that didn’t need them. I m

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