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- John Elling's Molten Salt Solutions raises $7M for enriched lithium
Dolby Family Ventures led the seed round, which will move the Santa Fe materials developer toward pilot-scale isotope production.
- Nscale closes $3B in debt commitments for two US AI campuses
J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs arranged delayed-draw facilities for GPU deployments in Texas and North Carolina, after a $900M July credit line.
- Pennant joins YC with AI software for institutional proxy voting
The two-person startup says its early customers include a large US public pension plan, a top law firm and governance advisors.
- Runway says Solaris generates interfaces frame by frame in real time
The early-access research model turns clicks and drags into synthesized 720p frames, while text, trust and accessibility remain open problems.
- Reframe raises $40M to scale microfactories beyond its first 10 homes
The former Amazon Robotics leaders have now disclosed at least $60M in equity and say FAB1 can produce up to 500 multifamily units a year, versus 10 homes completed companywide.
- DeepSeek publishes 168GB vision model weights under an MIT license
The 305B-parameter checkpoint lands 10 days after its API debut, while DeepSeek's headline benchmark uses Anthropic's superseded Opus 4.8.
- Together AI signs 250 MW Saudi deal, projects $5B annual revenue
HUMAIN will supply power and 120,000 AI chips under a revenue-sharing arrangement for open-model training and inference.
- Grok 4.7 rumor revives Musk's September promise and SpaceX data bet
A viral post adds an unverified training-complete claim to Musk's August promise of a September model trained on SpaceX engineering data.
- Scan.com raises $220M to build the API layer for US medical imaging
A $90M Series C and $130M in debt will fund acquisitions, network expansion and AI scheduling as Scan.com claims a $165M run rate.
- Ryan Breslow is raising up to $27M for Bolt, including $5M of his own
The Bolt founder is putting in $5M after an abandoned 2024 financing triggered litigation from investors.
- Tidal drops its cut of music and merch sales to 0%
US artists keep the sale price after processing fees, while Square handles payments and Tidal's merch stores remain in beta.
- Anthropic launches Claude Fable 5.1 after Bedrock exposed its model slug
The official release confirms a pre-launch API clue that distinguished Fable 5.1 from invalid Anthropic model identifiers.
- Pentagon CTO declares the defense-tech science fair over
Emil Michael's office is concentrating innovation programs around deployment, commercial adoption and measurable military use.
- Clipto disclosed a $250M-plus valuation in January; TechCrunch reports a $15M round
Clipto's January 5th release covered financing rounds beginning in July 2025 but did not state the latest round's size. TechCrunch now reports $15M, while founder Henry Kang says the media-search startup generates more than $15M in ARR and is profitable.
- Almanac launches a company agent that remembers before it acts
Almanac's YC S26 founders turned an internet-wide wiki experiment into an AI agent with plans starting at $30 per user per month across Slack, email, GitHub and the browser.
- Hebbian Robotics open-sourced HFlow to clean up robot-training data
The two-person YC S26 team is turning experience from LionsBot, Jane Street and Verkada into a quality-control layer for robot data.
- Anthropic's $200 Claude plan faces a lawsuit over what "20x" buys
A June 14th proposed class action says weekly caps reduce Max 20x to 6x-8x Pro usage; Anthropic defines the multiplier per five-hour session.
- Locke pairs AI agents with lobbyists to chase government contracts
Founder Parth Badhwar says the YC startup reached a $500K annual revenue run-rate six weeks after its quiet start.
- Cloudflare's Matthew Prince extends Doug Leone feud with a funeral joke
Prince's funeral joke responded to Leone recounting a root canal without Novocain, clarifying who Prince says rejected Cloudflare because co-founder Michelle Zatlyn was a woman.
- Think launches Fabric to squeeze more work from mixed AI chips
Fabric combines liquid-cooled nodes, orchestration software and fiber links, six weeks after Think raised more than $8M.
- Circleback makes unlimited meeting notes free and calls that its marketing budget
Ali Haghani and Kevin Jacyna cut Circleback's paid entry price as their eight-person startup says it has been profitable since 2024.
- Salem Robotics brings autonomous nuclear inspection software to YC's S26 batch
The founders built on Los Alamos deployments and UT Austin research to automate radiation surveys, instrument handling and compliance records.
- Diffraqtion says pre-seed tops $10M for quantum space camera
Lockheed Martin Ventures and Presidio Ventures joined the financing as Diffraqtion prepares its first fielded camera for a hosted spacecraft payload.
- Cloudflare launches bot engine it says retrains continuously on live traffic
Cloudflare says Adaptive Intelligence continuously retrains the model behind Bot Score on live traffic. Pricing, performance data and release dates for two planned components remain undisclosed.