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Daniel Ek's health startup is charging $499 for a one-hour scan at its SoHo clinic, its first location outside Europe.

Founder Lindsey Elliott drew the design from refinery work; the startup is selling managed field service rather than asking plants to buy the robot.

Founder Michael Akilian says the company formed five months ago to move AI out of virtual research and into biology, chemistry and materials science labs.

Co-founder Hoa Duc Mai says the platform gives robotics developers a working machine to build on; TechCrunch reports more than $1 million in revenue.

After selling customer spreadsheets by hand, Abby Grills and CTO Cody Watters built Riveter's agents to search, extract and structure live web data, now available through ChatGPT and Codex.

Founder Agnessa Pedersen is developing a portable, non-invasive interface for higher-level machine commands. Scaling it will depend on software and reducing calibration.

Founder Matt Angle's decade-long effort is moving from neural recordings toward daily communication, though Connexus remains investigational and human evidence is early.

The JavaScript project's X account mocked up a trademark notice after Alexandr Wang asked users whether Meta should sell Muse merchandise.

Palmer Luckey's defense company took first place after June field tests in Alaska, where teams had to detect and suppress controlled fires without disturbing decoys.

Han Kim's patent startup is pairing in-house software with expert-led services after raising a $5.5 million seed round in June.

Founder Anais Howland is selling rates research for $200 per user monthly and an agency MBS platform for $12,000 a year.

Founder Noel Goddard says the work extends entanglement beyond key distribution; Qunnect's white paper describes security demonstrations on existing fiber.

The North America pre-sales role will run time-boxed proofs of concept, reproducible customer-data benchmarks, and architecture and security reviews. QuestDB says its database runs in production at tier-one firms across four continents and its public repository has more than 17,000 GitHub stars.

Sceye's August test tracked ST1 and gathered atmospheric data for future optical links; it demonstrated no communications link.

Gagan Biyani's Horowitz Andreessen Academy plans a tuition-free first class of roughly 50 students in San Francisco in September 2027.

Autonomy-1 is slated for Stoke Space's first Nova Pathfinder flight in 2027, after AstroForge tests its Solo software on DeepSpace-2.

Luis Mario Garcia and his Orchata co-founders are applying experience from an operationally difficult delivery business to calls, quotes, orders and ERP entry.

The 2026-27 deployment puts district- and contractor-operated buses on CMX under a five-year transportation-management contract worth up to $20.8 million.

Atai and Uli Barkai are using a four-agent travel demo to frame OpenBot as the open-source alternative to SpaceXAI's managed agent service, even if the clip is no benchmark.

The San Francisco inference startup is offering up to $300K for engineers who will own kernels, clusters and customer workloads.

The final release pairs 1,274 hours of household footage with arm-tracking data, though folding laundry dominates the corpus.

Verne Robotics, founded by Neil Nie and Aditya Jha, pairs dual-arm hardware, diffusion policies and field data to automate packaging without a large upfront robot purchase.

The 80-mile concept would dwarf The Boring Company's completed tunnels and demands an average speed near 160 mph.

Creator Frankie LaPenna took the kicks in REK's latest pitch for turning teleoperated humanoids into a spectator sport.