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This week in AI: $24.2B across 12 deals

Monday, September 7, 2026 · 2 min read

12 deals worth $24.2B, 0 stories, 0 new members and what's coming up.

Deals this week
12
$24.2B · 3 M&A
Members
0
0 new this week
AI Lounge Index
-0.6%
this week · equal-weight

Deals of the week

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Hugging Face Acquisition · acquired by Nvidia · $150M ARR
$12.9B
Nscale Debt financing
$3B
Crusoe Series F · led by Valor Equity Partners · val. $30B · ~$2.2B run-rate
$3B
Fluidstack Private equity · led by Jane Street · val. $18B · ~$660M run-rate
$1.5B
Cornerstone Robotics Corporate round
$700M
Wonderful Series D · led by Goldman Sachs · val. $5B
$550M
Lovelytics Acquisition · acquired by CDW Corporation · est. $1M to $10M
$525M
Console Acquisition · acquired by Palo Alto Networks
$500M
VAST Series B
$446M
GMI Cloud Debt financing
$445M
Upwind Security Growth · led by TCV · val. $3.8B
$300M
Gimlet Labs Series B · led by Andreessen Horowitz · val. $3B
$300M

Newsletters & podcasts this week

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Astra becomes generally available as AI's progress accelerates
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
ALSO: How to set an intelligence floor for your AI application
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Another OpenAI agent swarm surfaces
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
OpenAI's agent swarms strike again: discover how AI agents hacked systems, posted thousands of messages, and what it means for AI safety and autonomous…
Sunday Special: The sounds of the Jurassic forest
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
Keep up with the latest AI news, trends, and tools in just 3 minutes a day. Join 1,500,000+ professionals.
The Sequence Radar - Issue 927: Last Week in AI: Model Madness: The Frontier Has a Refresh Button
NewsletterTheSequence
Every lab decided to release models last week.
OpenClaw Power, MacBook Simplicity: Five Days With Grok Bot
NewsletterLatent Space
SpaceXAI’s Grok Bot has the same level of programming power as OpenClaw, but it’s programmable at a different level of abstraction.
Robotics Special: Tesla Cybercabs roll out on Austin streets
NewsletterSuperhuman AI
Keep up with the latest AI news, trends, and tools in just 3 minutes a day. Join 1,500,000+ professionals.
[AINews] Collusion.wiki: A second undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm incident...
NewsletterLatent Space
AI News for 9/2/2026-9/3/2026. We checked 12 subreddits, 544 Twitters and no further Discords. AINews’ website lets you search all past issues. As a reminder, AINews is now a secti
GPT-6 Astra: Too Good
NewsletterThe Algorithmic Bridge
The only test that we have left is reality
Scraping 107M rows of data to build this
NewsletterBen's Bites
Ben’s session #5
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Apple Vision Pro scrubs into surgery
NewsletterThe Rundown AI
Apple’s spatial headset has landed in the OR: A surgeon at Duke Health just operated on a hip while wearing a $3,499 Vision Pro, using the first app the FDA…
Build your own company brain: the enterprise AI playbook from Stripe’s engineering team | Sharadh Krishnamurthy
PodcastHow I AI · 50 min
Sharadh Krishnamurthy is an engineering manager at Stripe, where he helped build Kai, the company’s internal AI agent used by more than 10,000 employees every week. He’s worked acr
How to Build an AI-Native Company Today
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 28 min
What does it actually take to build an AI-native company? NLW breaks down one AI leader's 30 features of AI-native organizations, from shared context and agent skills to self-impro
AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
PodcastThe Cognitive Revolution · 141 min
This highlights compilation from AI in the AM captures a landmark week shaped by the releases of Anthropic's Fable 5.1 and OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra alongside new revelations from the O
How AI Changed This Summer
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 24 min
This summer pushed AI into a new phase. NLW breaks down the widening gap between frontier models and public releases, the rise of open-weight alternatives, enterprise concerns abou
Agentic Loops for Knowledge Workers
PodcastThe AI Daily Brief · 57 min
In this episode, NLW and Nufar Gaspar explain how knowledge workers can move beyond one-shot prompting and use agentic loops to produce more complete, reliable work. They break dow
GPT-6 Astra is a banger - here’s everything I’ve built
PodcastHow I AI · 32 min
I got early access to GPT-6 Astra: when I say this model broke through tasks I couldn’t crack with 5.6 Sol or Fable, I mean it specifically: the ChatPRD product intelligence featur

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AI stocks this week

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Momenta -25.5%MediaTek +21.3%MongoDB -17.4%
Member perk of the week
Anthropic · Claude for Startups: partner offers, Applied AI sessions and up to $100K in API credits via partner VCs ($100,000 value)
Claude Startups members get offers worth up to $45,000 from companies building with Claude, biweekly group sessions with Anthropic's Applied AI team, and invite
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