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• Luca Ferrari takes Bending Spoons' software roll-up to the IPO market

  The Milan owner of Eventbrite, Vimeo and WeTransfer reported $601 million in Q1 revenue and 9 million paying customers, according to TechCrunch.

• DexTeleop's TeleAvatar robot turns a Beijing supermarket into a training floor

  A reported JD 7Fresh deployment shows the promise of retail robotics, but leaves open the hard questions: autonomy, scale, and commercial terms.

• TechCrunch gives early-stage founders until June 8th for Startup Battlefield 2026

  The Disrupt pitch competition extended its May 27th cutoff and is telling founders not to wait for polish or traction.

• Performative-UI turns the AI startup landing page into a React library

  The MIT-licensed project packages 26 familiar patterns, from prompt heroes to logo marquees, as reusable components.

• Leopold Aschenbrenner turns an AI thesis into a $20 billion hedge fund

  WSJ reports Jane Street is now an investor in Situational Awareness, whose biggest disclosed win is tied to Anthropic.

• MMAE benchmark tests whether AI can edit audio without collateral damage

  Tencent Hunyuan and university collaborators say current models post an Exact Match Rate below 5% on the new speech and audio editing benchmark.

• Troy Hunt's breach counter hits 1,000 as disclosure lags stretch

  Have I Been Pwned now lists 1,003 breached sites and 17.6B pwned accounts, with recent Carnival and Zara notices arriving weeks after public leaks.

• Firefox 153 will add Vulkan Video decoding as Mozilla widens Linux GPU support

  The initial code path, credited to NVIDIA and Red Hat engineers, targets a long-running hardware video gap in Firefox on Linux.

• Another OpenAI exit raises the retention question

  Gabriel Petersson's move follows a separate OpenAI hardware-linked departure a day earlier, turning a proof-of-work hiring story into a possible canary moment.

• Teenage Engineering's APC-2 turns the company's hardware obsession toward record cutting

  The Stockholm design company lists a 140 kg professional disc recorder, with no public price and only a limited set built.

• Retro's ex-Instagram founders are chasing a smaller social graph

  TechCrunch's latest social-app roundup points to a market splitting into private photos, taste networks and open-web clients.

• echohive turns Codex into a creative-coding assistant

  The Three.js visual demo points to a smaller but important market for coding agents: creators selling workflows, not software seats.

• Hugging Face turns its community toward small-model efficiency

  The Build Small Hackathon track asks developers to build with smaller models as open-weight systems move closer to local production use.

• 0G Labs says its coding-agent model fits locally in 18GB

  The company says the Apache 2.0 model runs at 4-bit quantization, but the source material does not include a model card, repo or benchmarks.

• Dave W. Plummer's RetroPad squeezes XP Notepad into 2,749 bytes

  The Windows veteran's assembly project is less a Notepad rival than a reminder of what modern software abstraction hides.

• Matt Van Horn says /last30days hit 30,000 GitHub stars after repo surges to top spot

  Van Horn also said he reached 30,000 X followers and was GitHub's top trending developer for a second day.

• Podman 6's machine work targets the VM friction behind Docker Desktop alternatives

  The October 2025 change makes the CLI see machines across WSL, QEMU, libkrun and AppleHV instead of trapping users in provider state.

• Lectric's founders are buying into e-bikes while VC-backed rivals retreat

  Levi Conlow says Lectric sold nearly 30,000 bikes in its biggest month and has put about $10 million into three new brands.

• Antares' Mark 0 reactor reaches criticality, not power generation

  The Idaho National Laboratory test validates a self-sustaining chain reaction while Antares still faces power conversion and licensing work.

• Vercel Sandbox persistence GA pushes agent state into managed infrastructure

  The reported GA separates storage from compute, but the public item leaves pricing, limits, release date and official Vercel docs unverified.

• Infini-AI-Lab says Vortex hits 3.46x throughput with agent-generated attention

  The research framework lets agents write attention flows in Python, compile them into serving kernels, and benchmark end-to-end LLM throughput.

• Elon Musk brings Terafab to ASML, the chokepoint for advanced chips

  Bloomberg says ASML invited Musk to a closed-door employee event, but no tool order, financing package, or partnership has been disclosed.

• Startup Spotlight: MagicPath, Pietro Schirano's shared AI-native canvas for human and agent designers

  Village Global has publicly tied MagicPath to investment activity, while Schirano's profiles identify him as founder and CEO of the AI design workspace; funding terms, customers and rollout details remain undisclosed.

• Claimed DeepSeek GUI leak mirrors OpenAI's Codex agent workspace

  The screenshot remains unverified, but its project rail, agent canvas and bottom command composer suggest DeepSeek may be following the product philosophy OpenAI is pushing with Codex.