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Thursday, September 24, 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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$2.42B
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AI Lounge Index
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TEKEVER Series D
$580M
Island Series F
$400M
Snorkel AI Series E · led by S32 · val. $3.2B · $375M run-rate
$350M
Heidi Health Equity + debt · led by Blackbird
$340M
Enveda Series E
$311M
Brahma AI Growth · led by Multiples Alternate Asset Management · val. $2B
$150M
METYCLE Debt financing
$150M
$140M

Newsletters & podcasts today

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Meta surprises everyone with an AI device for Muse
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to Build an AI IT Helpdesk in 15 Minutes with StackAI
😺 What 950 Claude agents found
NewsletterThe Neuron
PLUS: OpenAI Voice, Gemini TTS, Qwen mobile agents, and a 950-agent research workflow.
LWiAI Podcast #257 - GPT 6 Astra, AI Extinction, Security Incidents
NewsletterLast Week in AI
A belated discussion of Astra’s release, a bunch of AI incidents, and the broader situation we are in with regards to AI safety.
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Anthropic's AI biology lab makes its first find
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Anthropic's AI biology lab makes its first discovery, using Claude to identify an unfamiliar viral system that could revolutionize gene-editing research.
∇ Guide: How World Models Work – From Dreamer and JEPA to Waymo and Atlas
NewsletterTuring Post
Let's learn the architectures that teach AI to imagine and act
😺 CoreWeave: AI infrastructure is one giant computer
NewsletterThe Neuron
Chen Goldberg explains the components of the modern data center, and what has to change underneath the next wave of AI.
Re-Founding Incumbents for the AI Era with Sequence Holdings Co-Founder and CEO Michael Lee
PodcastNo Priors · 43 min
Can AI transform legacy incumbents rather than replacing them? Sequence Holdings co-founder and CEO Michael Lee joins Sarah Guo to discuss how holding company structures and engine
From AGENTS.md to Enterprise Deployment
PodcastPractical AI · 49 min
AI agents are moving beyond laptops and prototypes and into enterprise environments where security, compliance, scalability, and reliability matter. Nick Kuhn from VMware Tanzu Pla
Opus 5.5 vs GPT-6 Sol and Luna
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 31 min
Anthropic and OpenAI release new models on the same day, with Opus 5.5 winning early acclaim while GPT-6 Sol and Luna push the frontier of affordable intelligence. NLW breaks down
🔬Bio-security is an AI Arms Race - Eric Nguyen (CEO, Radical Numerics)
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 92 min
The OpenAI → Hugging Face attack has people asking “what else do we need to worry about?” and Anthropic’s filters flag two things: cyber-security and biology. The natural question

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