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Monday, September 28, 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
$9.48B · 2 M&A
Members
0
0 new today
AI Lounge Index
-2.0%
last 30 days
World Labs Acquisition · acquired by AMD · pre-revenue
$8.2B
Instinct Series C · led by Sequoia Capital · val. $10B
$1B
Biossil Venture round
$153M
$100M
Robotiq.ai Acquisition · acquired by HCLTech
$10M
Row Zero Seed · led by IA Ventures
$10M
Menos AI Seed · led by Copper Sky Capital · val. $40M
$5.1M
F2 AI Seed · led by Golub Capital
$5M

Newsletters & podcasts today

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Muse manifesto 📜, OpenAI training pause 🚨, trading compute 🤝 — TLDR AI 09/28
NewsletterTLDR AI
Muse manifesto 📜, OpenAI training pause 🚨, trading compute 🤝
Microsoft Copilot gets its biggest overhaul yet
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to create an interview kit from a job description with Claude
😸 Did OpenAI lose control? 🚨
NewsletterThe Neuron
PLUS: OpenAI paused training again. Here's what broke.
TR
OpenAI's agents went rogue on Washington
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
PLUS: How to get started with Jev, TypeSafe's new AI
😺 Tens of Thousands of AI Incidents
NewsletterThe Neuron
PLUS: Microsoft rebuilt Copilot around persistent agents.
Sunday Special: Joby claims first fully autonomous flight across the US
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
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Jev for beginners: how to use it and what to build
PodcastHow I AI · 26 min
Jev is TypeSafe AI’s new decision model. It returns type-safe structured values (a choice, a score, a probability) instead of generated text, at 4 cents per million input tokens wi

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