- Startup Spotlight: Novo Space builds modular computers for satellite constellations
Co-founders Rodrigo Diez and Facundo Jorge are building modular flight computers designed to reduce repeated engineering work across satellite missions.
- Anthropic is rumored to be pursuing robot AI developer Physical Intelligence
Robert Scoble cited an unnamed investor and said the deal had not closed; neither side has announced a transaction.
- Saronic picks South Texas for $3.2 billion autonomous shipyard
The Austin defense startup plans Port Alpha at the Port of Brownsville after raising $1.75 billion at a $9.25 billion valuation.
- Sierra Space wins $798 million SDA contract for missile-tracking satellites
The 18-satellite award puts Fatih and Eren Ozmen's space company deeper into the U.S. military's proliferated low-Earth-orbit architecture.
- Motive Force uses Folk Computer to make the case for research funding
Oana Olteanu's July 10th essay casts Omar Rizwan and Andres Cuervo's paper-based system as a rebuttal to agent-startup sameness.
- Dexa pushes to revive Kroger drone delivery after BVLOS bottleneck
Beth Flippo says Dexa is again talking with Kroger after a 2021 pilot collapsed under costly line-of-sight rules.
- Reflect Orbital wins FCC approval for its first sunlight-beaming satellite test
Ben Nowack and Tristan Semmelhack can test Earendil-1, but the ruling exposes a regulatory gap around commercial light from orbit.
- Known and 222 are rebuilding dating around the actual date
Celeste Amadon, Asher Allen and Keyan Kazemian are betting Gen Z wants fewer feeds and more real-world introductions.
- Netflix circles Letterboxd as founders face the indie network exit test
Tiny owns 60% of Letterboxd, but co-founders Matthew Buchanan and Karl von Randow still hold 40% of the film platform.
- TibaRay moves Galactica cancer-treatment systems into manufacturing
The Fremont medtech says its first upright radiotherapy installation is planned for Mayo Clinic later in 2026.
- UCSD's humanoid surgery test puts cheap robots in da Vinci's lane
Michael Yip's ARClab team used two teleoperated Unitree G1s on a live pig, turning a commodity humanoid into a surgical question.
- YC-backed Moss is hiring for the SDK layer of real-time AI search
Sri Raghu Malireddi is betting retrieval latency will decide which voice AI products feel usable.
- Phia's cookie-stuffing fight puts its affiliate model on trial
Bloomberg found the shopping extension could overwrite referral codes; TechCrunch says Impact.com has suspended Phia.
- Winnie Lai's Auriga Space turns its satellite catapult into a hypersonic test business
The Orange County company signed Axiom Materials as a pilot customer while its orbital launcher remains a longer-range bet.
- BETA Technologies' federal eVTOL flights put Kyle Clark's medical-aircraft bet in the air
The Amazon-backed electric aircraft maker carried United Therapeutics organs across Maryland and Virginia in the first federal pilot flights.
- Electra clears an FAA certification gate for its 150-foot runway aircraft
The Manassas startup says the FAA has set the EL9's certification basis, moving its nine-passenger hybrid-electric plane into compliance planning.
- CXMT's $4.3 billion IPO tests Zhu Yiming's China memory bet
The Hefei DRAM maker is seeking China's largest A-share IPO of 2026 as AI demand and U.S. controls push Beijing toward domestic memory.
- Kalshi wants to take crypto-style perpetual futures into gold, FX and energy
The prediction market founded by Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara is asking regulators to widen a May crypto approval into traditional markets.
- Monumint scrapped OmniAI after a $3.2 million seed to sell AI agents to banks
Tyler Maran and Anna Pojawis moved from horizontal AI data tools into financial workflows after deciding OmniAI was too small a bet.
- CollectWise seeks a founding AE as AI debt collection moves from demo to quota
The YC F24 startup says Sean OBrien has run hundreds of sales calls as it targets $10 million ARR.
- Xbox reset narrows the exit path for indie game studios
Microsoft is cutting about 3,200 Xbox roles and setting exits in motion for five studios after years of buying its way into games.
- RuntimeWire is what startup media looks like without investors
No VCs, no investors, no private equity: RuntimeWire is a founder-built answer to startup media shaped by capital, access and the AI hype cycle.
- The AO is digitising battlefield evacuations after its founder learned the problem in Ukraine
Howard Hunt built The AO in Berlin around a hard lesson from Donetsk Oblast: drones have turned casualty evacuation into a data problem.
- Aleph's silent-speech prototype reads tongue motion at 15.6% word error rate
The research lab says a 50-hour dataset let its prototype decode open-vocabulary speech, with hardware still stuck at probe-and-gel stage.