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Tuesday, September 29, 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
$17.2B · 2 M&A
Members
0
0 new today
AI Lounge Index
-2.1%
last 30 days
World Labs Acquisition · acquired by AMD · pre-revenue
$8.2B
Amex GBT Acquisition · acquired by Long Lake · val. $6.3B · ~$2.7B revenue (est.)
$6.3B
Instinct Series C · led by Sequoia Capital · val. $10B
$1B
GMI Cloud Series B + debt · led by Archiv
$668M
Ortet Seed · led by Thoreau
$500M
Kahua Private equity
$250M
Biossil Venture round
$153M
SiMa.ai Series C · led by Amplify Partners · val. $1.45B
$150M

Newsletters & podcasts today

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 🧠, Anthropic IPO leaks 📝, AMD buys World Labs 💰 — TLDR AI 09/29
NewsletterTLDR AI
Claude Sonnet 5.5 🧠, Anthropic IPO leaks 📝, AMD buys World Labs 💰
AI's tidal wave continues, bringing new models & products
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to recreate the viral ’80s photo trend with ChatGPT
Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev
NewsletterAhead of AI
A Visual Guide to Bag-of-Words, RNNs, CNNs, Transformers, Jev-like APIs, and Calibration
😺 Meta wants to own your AI front door
NewsletterThe Neuron
PLUS: Agents now get phones, wallets, computers, and permission to transact.
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Anthropic's mid-tier Claude climbs the rankings
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 climbs the rankings with near-Opus performance at half the price, raising the bar of expectations for OpenAI's DevDay 2026.
[AINews] Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos
NewsletterLatent Space
a rare feature of a capability
Obsolete or Irreplaceable? Garrison Lovely on Stopping the Race to Replace Human Labor
PodcastThe Cognitive Revolution · 135 min
Author and journalist Garrison Lovely joins Nathan to discuss his book Obsolete and examine the motivations and beliefs of the leaders racing to build AGI. Drawing a sharp line bet
Claude Code’s Next Era — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic
PodcastLatent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · 92 min
We are excited to have Anthropic share their latest AI x Finance work at AI Engineer New York , coming up in 2 weeks! In case you’ve been under a rock, here’s a non-exhaustive list
The Real Risks of AI Agents
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 29 min
AI agents don’t have to pose an existential threat to cause serious disruption. NLW examines recent OpenAI security incidents, the limits of agent permissions, and how agents doing

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