Startups — Page 12

Bluecore Energy is testing an unfueled prototype at Long Beach before the harder work of licensing a commercial reactor.

Divine's August 18th release says Evan Henshaw-Plath and Liz Sweigart plan to remove invite codes on August 20th as the Nostr-based video app bans AI-generated posts and tests its first brand collaboration with Taco Bell.

Sellara's former Citi bankers are building specialized AI agents for trade capture and reconciliation, backed by a16z Speedrun.

Amp, which [LinkedIn lists at 11-50 employees](https://www.linkedin.com/company/amp-code/), uses signed commits, automated checks and agent threads while skipping mandatory pull requests.

Geoff Douglass's Mythos AI supplies advisory navigation for a crewed Mississippi towboat, while Chris Urmson's Aurora is expanding fully driverless Class 8 freight operations in Texas.

Founder Leo Kankkunen has shown a prototype, while DAIVIN's own spec sheet says its 5-kilogram system remains conceptual.

Solo founder Sarah Buchner spent more than a decade in construction before expanding Trunk Tools from document search into connected agents for contractor workflows.

The startup combines repeat founders and $17.5 million in seed backing with early product validation, while its clinical case remains preliminary.

The deal moves hybrid and autonomous aircraft into a Dayton defense unit while JoeBen Bevirt's commercial team stays focused on air taxis.

HSG and Gaorong co-led the Shanghai lab's financing, with Tencent joining a founder-driven bet reportedly valued at $2 billion.

Revenue rose 45.5% sequentially as NASA, defense and lunar awards expanded Firefly's backlog; the company maintained 2026 guidance of $420 million to $450 million.

Manus is telling affected users to back up recent data before an August 23rd-24th deletion window as it separates from Meta and its founders reportedly seek financing for a buyback.

The dueling cases grew out of a nearly yearlong product trial that ended without a contract and left both sides preparing competing MCP gateways.

The co-founders are testing fixed court hardware through NBA Launchpad, where a broader league partnership depends on the pilot results.

Founded by Adi Singh and Sven Myhre, Ara is a two-person YC startup that documented its Cloud Coding Agent on July 7th, with isolated sessions, stored context and human review.

Craig Cheney's MIT-trained team is connecting robotic work and verification directly to manufacturers' production systems.

The unauthenticated SQL injection flaw gave attackers a path from an analytics instance to connected database credentials and customer records.

Justin So says the YC-backed AI agent is live in more than 20 plants, where workers can report problems without installing an app.

The Texas reactor went from groundbreaking to a sustained chain reaction in under a year, though its authorized power is capped at 100 watts.

Trinity engineers Johnny Doyle and Will Carkner are coordinating U.S. suppliers and partners rather than starting with a factory.

Melvin Schwarz is building a control layer for putting third-party humanoid robots to work in existing industrial sites.

Physician-scientist Eta Atolia is turning years of neoantigen and synthetic-biology research into a Los Angeles biotech.

The YC Summer 2026 startup is betting shifting market regimes can train long-horizon agents better than static benchmarks.

The YC S26 entrant says its system combines longitudinal records, personal genomics and scientific literature to map disease drivers and therapies.