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The Boulder company is building an AI interpretation layer for whole genomes, after its founder says standard testing missed his son's fatal disorder.

David Sinclair's longevity company has moved ER-100 from animal work into a small FDA trial for glaucoma and optic nerve disease.

Bloomberg's valuation report leaves the deal mechanics unclear, but it puts a 2014 Finnish SAR operator in a new European space tier.

Foody says some AI rounds are marketed at headline prices that do not match where lead investors put most of their money.

The YC S22 company says Intuned Agent writes and repairs Playwright automations, while leaving revenue, customer names and funding terms undisclosed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Business Insider says paid creators posted about Polymarket at least 490 times without clear sponsorship disclosures.

The Alia CX300 still needs certification, but Beta's staged plan gives it a nearer-term path than air-taxi rivals chasing eVTOLs first.

The X thread shows a damaged humanoid still standing, but the robot identity and event details are not independently verified.

The Columbia-led work used base editing to alter PCSK9 and HBG in donated human embryos, with Nucleus Genomics' Nathan Treff listed as a co-author and safety questions still unresolved.

The X post does not name the startup, but the claim points to a hardware-heavy bet inside the current YC batch.

JIH Global Investment plans a $100 million deployment, starting with five Navier vessels in 2026 and 95 more over time.

The AI data research lab says it builds off-the-shelf and custom datasets, benchmarks and long-horizon visual task environments for teams shipping vision-capable models.

Open Terminal combines SEC financials, news, filings, charts, AI Q&A, and SQL access, but Tesseract has not disclosed pricing or funding.

WIRED reports MacKenzie Price and Joe Liemandt pitched wealthy parents on a $65,000 New York campus that the outlet says is not actually a school.

Cloudflare says it is investing in the Vite stack as web infrastructure, while the Vite team says governance, MIT licensing, vendor neutrality and Open Collective control are not changing.

Co-founder Bruno is betting that privacy search can stay small, paid, EU-based, and deliberately free of AI assistants.

Doug Wilson says more than 1,000 farmers from about 30 countries contacted Ursa Ag after its low-tech tractor hit farm-show circles.