Startups — Page 17

Bloomberg reports the DNA-testing brand is returning as a nonprofit with a much bigger scale ambition.

High Torque Robotics says its robots are performing real-world tasks live at the conference booth as it opens hiring for the team.

The Shanghai startup's device is cleared only for a narrow group of spinal cord injury patients, but it moves invasive BCIs past trials.

The 440-gigawatt burst unlocked part of a $1B-plus Series A, but Pacific Fusion still has to scale the pulser before its demo plant.

The Long Beach aerospace company is leaning on Europe as a proving ground for McCaleb's post-crypto bet on private space stations.

The project says its Wolbachia-carrying males cannot bite and cannot produce offspring with wild females; its public pages do not detail field results or funding.

Aligned News says the AI audio company has a Greek government partnership, but the ARR and Greece claims remain uncorroborated by public company materials.

AgileX Robotics says its hardware targets R&D use cases and is built for Cosmos 3 integrations the community is testing this week.

The indie builder layered Strava GPX, pace coins, and sprint zones into a browser app that runs directly on the glasses, saying it works without a flagship phone.

The former Stability AI CEO posted a one-line claim and pointed to a Sam Altman post; no details or confirmation accompanied the note.

YC-backed Telli is opening roles as it scales its AI voice agent platform used by enterprises like Sky, with a fast-iteration culture and published principles.

A repost on X points to a governance-focused add-on promising verifiable drift checks for the local, open-source agent.

A brief BetaList entry points to a tool that links payments to Discord roles; beyond the tagline, the listing shares no docs, pricing, or product details.

A Low End Mac interview surfaces how Jef Raskin sold Apple on the Mac, why he pushed simplicity, and the critiques he still had of the modern UI.

The browser tool ray-traces LIDAR to estimate balcony solar yield and payback per address, reflecting UK rules like the 800 W cap and MCS export limits.

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

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.

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.

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

Visa says 1,000+ employees already use Replit; the partners are testing Visa Intelligent Commerce and Trusted Agent Protocol inside Replit with no product announced yet.

In a repost on X with no link or details, the account says it is announcing a first-of-its-kind article type aimed at "saving science from ideological capture."

In a thread on X, Rahul Mathur says the high-frequency services race is now a capital war, with UC leaning in despite unproven economics and visible burn.

Tong says Webflow will focus on marketing teams that need more than a website, pairing AI agents with smaller, faster teams and offering severance to departing employees.

AscendArc, founded by a former SpaceX engineer, says smaller geostationary satellites can deliver broadband at a fraction of today’s cost