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- Nagish becomes Rylo and raises $85 million for AI call captioning
Co-founder Tomer Aharoni is taking a school project into a broader accessibility platform backed by General Catalyst and Canaan.
- 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.
- Modulus is pitched as a multiplayer IDE for engineers and AI agents, with key details still undisclosed
A third-party launch post says Modulus puts human engineers and AI agents in the same real-time workspace. The available source does not disclose founders, pricing, availability, deployment, integrations or security controls.
- Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5 with a gated Mythos 5 for cyber use
The new model is priced at $10 per million input tokens and $50 per million output tokens, with some requests routed to Opus 4.8.
- Illyas Khan's Quantinuum IPO turns a quantum software bet into a $2.2 billion stake
Quantinuum raised $1.68 billion at a valuation above $15.6 billion while reporting just $30.9 million in 2025 revenue.
- Decagon puts its CX agents on a self-improvement loop
Duet Autopilot turns live support conversations into proposed agent updates, but Decagon is keeping humans in the approval seat.
- Google ships Gemini 3.5 Live Translate across consumer, enterprise and developer tools
The audio model streams speech-to-speech translation across 70-plus languages, with Meet access limited to private preview this month.
- 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.
- Standard Bots raises $200M to manufacture robots in the US
Bloomberg reported the financing, but the round's investors, valuation, close date and factory plan remain undisclosed in the accessible record.
- Alex Xiao's Evotrex raises $30M for a hybrid RV that can live off-grid
The Anker-backed Los Angeles company plans 2027 sales of the PG5, a battery trailer with an onboard gas engine to recharge it.
- Report: Tim Cook sets September handoff to John Ternus after WWDC AI pitch
Apple's own WWDC pages highlight Siri AI and child-safety updates, while the CEO succession claim rests on an X post and secondary sourcing.
- Zepto's IPO filing shows Aadit Palicha's ad bet is outpacing overall revenue growth
The Indian quick-commerce company filed for an IPO with revenue doubling, losses widening, and public investors still waiting on valuation clarity.
- Harness-1 researchers say a 20B open search agent beat GPT-5.4 on recall
The UIUC, UC Berkeley and Chroma project shifts search memory from the model context window into a structured software environment.
- 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 8th for Startup Battlefield 2026
The Disrupt pitch competition extended its May 27th cutoff and is telling founders not to wait for polish or traction.
- Performative-UI turns the AI startup landing page into a React library
The MIT-licensed project packages 26 familiar patterns, from prompt heroes to logo marquees, as reusable components.
- Leopold Aschenbrenner turns an AI thesis into a $20 billion hedge fund
WSJ reports Jane Street is now an investor in Situational Awareness, whose biggest disclosed win is tied to Anthropic.
- MMAE benchmark tests whether AI can edit audio without collateral damage
Tencent Hunyuan and university collaborators say current models post an Exact Match Rate below 5% on the new speech and audio editing benchmark.
- 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.
- Firefox 153 will add Vulkan Video decoding as Mozilla widens Linux GPU support
The initial code path, credited to NVIDIA and Red Hat engineers, targets a long-running hardware video gap in Firefox on Linux.
- Another OpenAI exit raises the retention question
Gabriel Petersson's move follows a separate OpenAI hardware-linked departure a day earlier, turning a proof-of-work hiring story into a possible canary moment.