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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 24 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

A brief X post teases a multi-day rollout and a new API for deep people research, but docs, pricing, and target users are not yet public.

The shared post does not specify the track, but a SIGGRAPH nod signals traction inside the computer-graphics community.

In a YC Launch post, Arlo Industries says its distributed passive network tracks low-altitude drones and cruise missiles in 3D without emitting, following field tests with Ukrainian units and early partnerships in Europe and the U.S.

The focus app says it has 1M daily users and 10M installs; the new Opal adds Opal Score and Autofocus as Schlenker frames attention as the AI era’s bottleneck.

YC-backed Minicor says its deterministic RPA plus recovery agent can run desktop workflows at scale, with SOC 2/HIPAA and Citrix support for regulated rollouts.

RoboRank, a LeetCode-like benchmarking project for robotics at roborank.dev, will separate and open-source its evaluation environments, target VLAs and world models, and harden sandboxed code execution so researchers can contribute tasks and models in the open.

The June 15-21 event is fully remote and supported by partners including ElevenLabs, Songstats, LALAL.AI, and Cyanite, according to Replit's post on X.

YC-backed Chert is pitching a single API for blue-bubble threads with SMS/RCS fallback and CRM integrations, and says it will run outbound as a service for teams.

XRoboHub reports the line is live at an integrated Shenzhen facility, but capacity timing and T800 specs were not disclosed.

The company targets high-performing professionals, pairing FDA-cleared TMS with d-cycloserine and optional $200 per month maintenance sessions.