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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.

Blue Water Autonomy secured one of six seats on a two-year contract with a shared $40 million ceiling; task orders will be competed among the awardees.

The YC S26 company is adapting coronavirus-era structural biology to target insect guts, with its first grower LOI and laboratory viruses produced.

Founder Ryan Merket says RuntimeWire has no revenue yet and is betting on developer-tool ads, job listings and sponsorships.

Johor authorities revoked NSO Malaysia's Forest City license on July 22nd; Kazakhstan's five-year memorandum gives Srinivasan a new government-backed venue.

Paul Graham wrote the July 2023 essay as a guide for ambitious work in any field. Its four-step framework still gives founders a useful test for choosing and exploring problems.

Chris Yu's Rivian spinoff says its $4,500 Launch Edition bikes will reach buyers from early August through September.

CEO Patrick Collison argues that AI agents favor ambitious, differentiated startups over narrow software wedges.

Founder Jatin Bains is taking the counter-drone developer public with Eric Trump as an investor and adviser and up to $251.7 million in gross proceeds.

Qian Li and Peter Kraft cut lock contention, transaction retries, and index churn, backing DBOS's case for simpler workflow infrastructure.

The two-person YC S26 company uses computer vision, voice AI and agents to manage costs across multi-unit restaurants.

Cameron Schiller's El Segundo foundry will develop flight hardware as Kratos scales engines for drones and missiles.