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Saturday, September 26, 2026 · 1 min read

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Noxtua Series C · led by C.H.BECK
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Outmarket AI Series B
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Ando Seed · led by Accel
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Arivihan Series A
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Crux Analytics Seed · led by Castle Creek Launchpad
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Scholar Education Seed · led by OneSixOne Ventures
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Reply Next Pre-seed · led by 4Founders Capital
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OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
NewsletterLatent Space
In 2023 most people doubted that there could be more than 1 or 2 frontier model labs. Now there are dozens.... and Stripe just bought the best known one for $7B.
🤖 Your agent, whose interests?
NewsletterExponential View
Meta’s Muse shows that users want a digital butler, but there may be a conflict of interests
Opus Stalks the Frontier, Jev Classifies Everything, Running Two Models in One Agent
NewsletterThe Batch
The Batch News & Insights: Moving forward on early stage, 0-to-1 projects and mature projects requires very different tactics.
50 years of tech devices
NewsletterBen's Bites
Ben's session #7
What is Utopia? Presenting The Receipt Horizon, by Joel Borgen – Chapters 1–4
PodcastThe Cognitive Revolution · 172 min
This episode presents the first four chapters of The Receipt Horizon, a debut novel by Joel Borgen co-written with ChatGPT and Claude and narrated entirely by synthetic voices. Set
OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 81 min
From the earliest days of open-weight models to becoming the neutral routing layer for more than 10 million developers , OpenRouter is one of the clearest bets that the future of A
Zero to One in AI Safety: Halcyon's Mike McCormick on Launching 30 New Orgs & the Founder Bottleneck
PodcastThe Cognitive Revolution · 110 min
Mike McCormick, founder and CEO of Halcyon, discusses why the primary bottleneck in AI safety, biosecurity, and cybersecurity is a shortage of experienced founders rather than a la
How People Are Actually Using Jev
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 26 min
Jev is moving beyond viral demos into practical work, from analyzing ad campaigns and searching archives to prioritizing inboxes and checking AI writing. NLW breaks down six catego

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Fireworks AI · Fireworks for Startups: inference and fine-tuning credits with higher rate limits ($10,000 value)
Fireworks serves open models (Llama, DeepSeek, Qwen, Mistral, FLUX, Whisper) at production speed. The startup program grants credits, sized per company, valid f
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