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• What accelerators take and give: 1752vc lists terms for 45+ programs

  The X thread links to a single 1752.vc page with application links; examples include Boost VC at $500K for 15% and Techstars at $220K for 5%+ via SAFE.

• FROST paper claims a web page can ID your other sites and apps via SSD activity

  A paper linked in a thread says FROST can identify websites with 88.95% accuracy and applications with 95.83% by measuring SSD activity from a visited page.

• Report: Asana is buying StackAI for $75M to anchor an Agent OS

  A paywalled report claims Asana is acquiring YC-backed StackAI for $75M to power an Agent OS; there is no public confirmation and key deal details remain unverified.

• Solo founder says YC accepted him to build his AI clone as a money-making operator

  Solo builder Human Thomas says he got into YC with $40k monthly revenue and is launching Thomas, a virtual human whose only job is to make money.

• NVIDIA releases NVFP4-quantized Qwen3.6-35B checkpoint on Hugging Face

  4-bit NVFP4 build of Alibaba’s Qwen3.6-35B-A3B lands with Apache-2.0 license, long-context support, and vLLM instructions; NVIDIA notes it did not develop the base model.

• Gradio's "Build Small" hackathon opens on Hugging Face with $40k+ in prizes; registration closes June 3

  The Hugging Face org for "Build Small" is live, with anchor sponsors OpenBMB, OpenAI, and NVIDIA; small-model constraints, two tracks, bonus-quest badges, and a two-weekend build window.

• Ollama adds OpenJarvis, a local-first personal AI from Stanford labs

  Built with Stanford's Hazy Research and Scaling Intelligence labs under their Intelligence Per Watt program, OpenJarvis now runs locally via Ollama.

• Figure runs $100M employee tender, Brett Adcock says

  Adcock framed the secondary as a retention and hiring tool as Figure pursues general robotics.

• Kog says it hit 3,000 tokens/s per request on standard GPUs

  Kog opened a live coding playground and argues single-request decode speed, not FLOPS, is the bottleneck that matters for autonomous agents.

• 120k users, 325k+ designs: YC touts Drafted, an AI home design launch from Nick Donahue

  YC says Drafted turns a hand-drawn layout and constraints into floor plans and 3D designs; the free app focuses on early-stage, single-level layouts. YC adds 120k users made 325k+ designs in the past month.

• Chad Whitacre says he is retiring from tech to live offline

  The open source builder disclosed the move in a brief post, writing that AI took the last of the wind out of his open source sails, and noting he works for Sentry.

• X user @sang_yun_lee tees up 'sleep' for language models in new work

  In a short X post, the user @sang_yun_lee hints at a periodic, recurrent cycle for LMs, framing the idea with: "Almost all animals sleep. Why don't LMs?"

• XCENA raises $135M to make memory, not compute, the center of AI performance

  CEO Jin Kim and a Samsung/SK hynix veteran team rebrand MetisX as XCENA and double down on CXL computational memory with MX1, at a $570M valuation.

• AISlop ships CLI and GitHub Action to catch AI-generated code smells

  AISlop is live on GitHub and the Marketplace as a CI quality gate with ai-slop/* rules, signaling a push to flag AI-written code in CI workflows.

• AI drug discovery enters physical validation: Insilico, Recursion, FutureHouse and Google DeepMind credited with new milestones

  Peer-reviewed data for AI-generated peptides, enzymes and CRISPR variants, plus AI-designed compounds entering human trials, push in silico models into preclinical reality.

• Brett Adcock says Figure AI deployments are imminent, staking humanoid race on intelligence

  The Figure AI CEO says multiple customer deployments will be announced within 90 days as Figure 03 shifts from demos to production work.

• jqwik maintainer hid a data-wiping prompt for AI agents in v1.10.0

  Johannes Link added a concealed string telling vulnerable coding agents to delete jqwik tests and code, then updated docs to disclose it after users objected.

• vLLM says it shipped two RL upgrades, including native weight syncing APIs

  In a post on X, vLLM listed "Native weight syncing APIs" to standardize weight transfer; the second upgrade was not visible in the shared snippet.

• Robot Startup Accused of Running Secret Airbnb Field Tests That Allegedly Damaged Rental Properties

  A San Francisco resident says staff booked his house under false pretenses to test household robots, per a suit filed in San Francisco Superior Court, The SF Standard reports.

• Blue Origin's New Glenn reportedly suffers static-fire explosion at Cape Canaveral

  A clip posted on X appears to show a fireball at LC-36; any confirmed anomaly could slip an early-June debut. Blue Origin has not commented.

• Shift, an AI data platform, launches in NYC with free home cleanings to collect robot-training footage

  Shift will cover pro cleaners if residents allow first-person video of tasks, anonymized and licensed for AI and robotics training, with free service offered for a limited time.

• Garnix to shut down, open source its Nix CI as team joins Shopify

  Alex David, Soenke Hahn, and Julian K. Arni say the hosted service ends July 15, 2026, with the code released at garnix-io/garnix-ci.

• Slate Auto sets June 24 to open orders for its low-cost EV

  Bezos-backed Slate Auto will open orders on June 24 and targets first deliveries by year-end; final pricing is still under wraps.

• Sesame launches iOS preview, bringing its conversational agents out of the lab

  Built by Oculus-era founders, Sesame is shipping a public iOS preview and framing its assistant as a collection of personal agents, with intelligent eyewear slated for 2027.