- Life Biosciences tests cellular reprogramming in a human eye
David Sinclair's longevity company has moved ER-100 from animal work into a small FDA trial for glaucoma and optic nerve disease.
- ICEYE's reported EUR10 billion valuation turns radar satellites into Europe's space benchmark
Bloomberg's valuation report leaves the deal mechanics unclear, but it puts a 2014 Finnish SAR operator in a new European space tier.
- Mercor's Brendan Foody calls out Sequoia's dual-price valuation play
Foody says some AI rounds are marketed at headline prices that do not match where lead investors put most of their money.
- Intuned bets browser automation still needs code, just less of it
The YC S22 company says Intuned Agent writes and repairs Playwright automations, while leaving revenue, customer names and funding terms undisclosed.
- Luca Ferrari takes Bending Spoons' software roll-up to the IPO market
The Milan owner of Eventbrite, Vimeo and WeTransfer reported $601 million in Q1 revenue and 9 million paying customers, according to TechCrunch.
- DexTeleop's TeleAvatar robot turns a Beijing supermarket into a training floor
A reported JD 7Fresh deployment shows the promise of retail robotics, but leaves open the hard questions: autonomy, scale, and commercial terms.
- TechCrunch gives early-stage founders until June 8 for Startup Battlefield 2026
The Disrupt pitch competition extended its May 27 cutoff and is telling founders not to wait for polish or traction.
- Troy Hunt's breach counter hits 1,000 as disclosure lags stretch
Have I Been Pwned now lists 1,003 breached sites and 17.6B pwned accounts, with recent Carnival and Zara notices arriving weeks after public leaks.
- Retro's ex-Instagram founders are chasing a smaller social graph
TechCrunch's latest social-app roundup points to a market splitting into private photos, taste networks and open-web clients.
- Matt Van Horn says /last30days hit 30,000 GitHub stars after repo surges to top spot
Van Horn also said he reached 30,000 X followers and was GitHub's top trending developer for a second day.
- Antares' Mark 0 reactor reaches criticality, not power generation
The Idaho National Laboratory test validates a self-sustaining chain reaction while Antares still faces power conversion and licensing work.
- Elon Musk brings Terafab to ASML, the chokepoint for advanced chips
Bloomberg says ASML invited Musk to a closed-door employee event, but no tool order, financing package, or partnership has been disclosed.
- Polymarket's influencer push puts Shayne Coplan's trust machine under scrutiny
Business Insider says paid creators posted about Polymarket at least 490 times without clear sponsorship disclosures.
- Kyle Clark's Beta Technologies is betting electric aviation starts on runways
The Alia CX300 still needs certification, but Beta's staged plan gives it a nearer-term path than air-taxi rivals chasing eVTOLs first.
- EngineAI T800 takes head off another humanioid in secret fight clip
The X thread shows a damaged humanoid still standing, but the robot identity and event details are not independently verified.
- Columbia Embryo-Editing Study Pulls Nucleus Genomics Into the Ethics Fight
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.
- Paul Graham says a current YC startup built an MRI machine in 101 days
The X post does not name the startup, but the claim points to a hardware-heavy bet inside the current YC batch.
- Navier founder Sampriti Bhattacharyya bets on the Maldives for 100 electric hydrofoil boats
JIH Global Investment plans a $100 million deployment, starting with five Navier vessels in 2026 and 95 more over time.
- floatingpoint is packaging supervised data and evals for vision AI teams
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.
- Alex Dolotov brings Tesseract Analytics' Open Terminal to retail investor research
Open Terminal combines SEC financials, news, filings, charts, AI Q&A, and SQL access, but Tesseract has not disclosed pricing or funding.
- Alpha School's $65,000 Manhattan pitch tests the line between AI school and homeschool center
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 brings VoidZero's Vite team in-house, adds $1M ecosystem fund
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.
- Uruky adds image search and URL rewrites to its paid private search engine
Co-founder Bruno is betting that privacy search can stay small, paid, EU-based, and deliberately free of AI assistants.
- Ursa Ag finds demand for a new tractor farmers can fix themselves
Doug Wilson says more than 1,000 farmers from about 30 countries contacted Ursa Ag after its low-tech tractor hit farm-show circles.