- 1X's hand teaser puts humanoid dexterity back at the center of the home robot race
The post did not confirm a new launch, but it targeted the exact bottleneck 1X must solve for NEO.
- Manna Aero makes Tulsa the center of its U.S. drone delivery push
Bobby Healy's Irish drone delivery company says it will build a U.S. operations and manufacturing base after raising $50 million in April.
- GITAI's ground test pushes Sho Nakanose's space-robot thesis toward debris work
The Torrance startup showed a robotic arm capturing a moving non-cooperative target, a ground step toward servicing satellites never built to dock.
- Startup Spotlight: Sourcerer wants to turn AI procurement into a supplier, not SaaS
Peter Cetale and Robert Magee are building an AI procurement startup that wants to act as the supplier of record, not another workflow tool.
- Katalyst's LINK spacecraft is chasing NASA's Swift in a test of satellite rescue as a business
Ghonhee Lee's space robotics company built and launched LINK in under a year after NASA awarded the mission.
- Castro's Dustin Bluck says personal support did not buy customer loyalty
The indie app operator's July 3rd essay turns two years of subscription support into a sharper product lesson for small software teams.
- Nebula Security publishes GhostLock exploit for 15-year Linux kernel flaw
The AI security lab says the bug powered an IonStack chain and earned a $92,337 kernelCTF reward from Google.
- Sara Wilczynska left Google and turned a Thailand watercolor habit into Swil Arts
The former software engineer built a San Diego illustration studio after a 2023 travel year showed her a different way to work.
- Predio wraps Spain's Catastro in JSON for agents that cannot live with SOAP
The self-serve service adds REST, MCP, machine-readable pricing and a paid ParcelGuard report layer on top of public cadastre data.
- Strata puts an AI safety verdict in the backcountry planning stack
Highloop LLC's iOS app turns avalanche bulletins, slope angle, weather and route data into go, watch or avoid guidance.
- Johnny Carni's WaiV Robotics wants to make ship-launched drones recoverable
The London maritime robotics venture has raised $7.5 million and is taking a predictive landing system from R&D into market, with a June U.S. launch ahead of the Energy Drone & Robotics Summit.
- As Amazon lets Mechanical Turk fade, Mercor hits a $2 billion gross run rate
The figure is before contractor payouts, but it shows how AI labs have shifted paid human labor from commodity microtasks to expert data work.
- Flipper Devices keeps Flipper Zero firmware alive, with users doing more of the work
Pavel Zhovner is moving the million-user hacker gadget into a tighter maintenance model as Flipper builds new hardware.
- Windrose's Tesla Semi challenger runs into a payroll and missing-truck fight
WSJ reports Wen Han's electric-truck startup has unpaid-wage claims, debts, a federal lawsuit and U.S. safety scrutiny.
- Startup Spotlight: Adialante wants to bring MRI scans to clinics by truck
The YC Spring 2026 startup says 11 clinics have reserved slots and $19.75 million in signed LOIs for a per-scan imaging model.
- Cyberverse's Cassie puts agentic trading into the Lepton hackathon race
The hackathon entry reads timeline signals and claims cross-market execution as AI trading tools move from advice into action.
- Sam Zeloof and Jim Keller turn Atomic Semi into Fab2, a startup trying to mass-produce small chip fabs
The former Atomic Semi is moving its center of gravity to Texas and selling a faster, smaller answer to semiconductor prototyping.
- Citizen Lab says Pegasus hacked an EU lawmaker investigating Pegasus
Stelios Kouloglou's iPhone was infected in 2022 and 2023 while he sat on the European Parliament's spyware inquiry committee.
- CoRL 2026 will put robot learning's founder pipeline in Austin this November
Yuke Zhu and Peter Stone are chairing the Nov. 9-12 conference as robotics labs race to turn foundation models into machines that work.
- Even Rogers' True Anomaly flew an orbital inspection mission for the Space Force
Rocket Lab launched Puma on short notice, then True Anomaly's Jackal chased, imaged, and circled it in low Earth orbit.
- The World Cup Is Now a Startup Distribution Machine
The 2026 tournament is turning startups into official infrastructure: prediction markets, Roblox worlds, AI concierges, tactile broadcasts, smart traffic systems, immersive venues, and FIFA’s post-EA gaming strategy.
- Charlie Javice keeps JPMorgan on the hook for Frank legal bills
A Delaware judge said JPMorgan failed to prove the convicted Frank founder's defense costs were abusive.
- DevDroid is putting the M2 Browning on Ukraine's ground robots to move soldiers out of the gunner's seat
The Ukrainian defense-tech builder says most Droid TW units in army use are configured with Brownings, an old gun solving a current supply problem.
- Matt Mastracci says a fake VC interview tried to turn his maintainer laptop into a supply-chain foothold
The Rust maintainer found a TypeScript take-home repo that hid PinpinRAT in a TypeScript patch and PNG payload.