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What changed, and what is the evidence.

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EARLY 🌱: 5 @ycombinator F26 startups under 200 followers, across Marketing, Energy, AI Security, Robotics and Hardware.👇 @theo_site - 1 follower - (Marketing): ai that builds and hosts small business websites, then keeps doing the seo…

Emotional the next morning. I'm in my Model 3. I haven't been looking at the road; I've been looking at videos, reading X, and trying to catch up on AI. I'm heading to a humanoid robotics conference in San Francisco where, let's be honest,…

Ultra Robotics has raised a $50M Series A (led by Framework Ventures, with Y Combinator), bringing its total to $62M. An e-commerce fulfillment company says each Ultra robot handles 800 to 1,000 shipments, while they only need one human to…

EARLY: 5 @ycombinator startups under 70 followers, across Hardware, Dev Tools, Logistics, Robotics and Biotech.👇 @ResinEDA - 3 followers - (Hardware): ai-native ecad that researches parts, drafts schematics and routes pcbs. founder:…

The demo is only 1% of the work, says @Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov. In his Y Combinator talk, he shares seven lessons from building autonomous driving: • Decide how much reliability the product needs. Dolgov says each additional nine takes…

EARLY 🌱: 5 companies across Healthcare, Robotics, AI, Energy and DevTools.👇 @dydemaneuro - 2 followers - (Healthcare): the model company for neurotech, building the data layer for brain tech. @ycombinator F26. @deadreckoningai - 4…

EARLY: 5 @ycombinator F26 companies under 20 followers, across AI, Healthcare, FinTech, Robotics and Space.👇 @runlatentai - 2 followers - (AI): tells you when your open-weight model is about to be wrong, scored from inside the model.…

EARLY: 5 companies across Energy, FinTech, AI, Compute and Robotics.👇 @velaenergy - 2 followers - (Energy): an ai workforce for power delivery, turning scattered project data into one live operating model. @speedrun SR007. @hickorycompany…

FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @ExpanseCompute on July 30th. 48 days later: $5.3M seed led by @crane_vc, with @ycombinator, @Standard_Cap and PXN Group. 🫡 https://t.co/8RsDljxgrA https://t.co/3N3c2hB5uy

FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @liquidcompute on March 5th, back when they were Pluto. 194 days later: $15M seed co-led by @chemistry and @FirstMarkCap, with @ycombinator, @TrueBridgeCP and @ufo_holdings. 🫡

FUNDRAISE 💰: @frontrunvc flagged @robocurve on July 20th. 56 days later: $10M seed led by @Initialized, with @notablecap, @decasonic, @ycombinator and @HalcyonFutures. 🫡 https://t.co/0h2aBOyQ7j https://t.co/GYZ9rKvR4F

Same Claude Opus 5. One run scored 30% on ARC-AGI-3. Another hit 95.5%. The model weights did not change. The harness did. Y Combinator released a one-hour class this week pulling together three teams: Prime Agent, Stanford's OpenJarvis,…

Post Log in Sign up Post wafer on X: "We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $40M Series A! co-led by @MarathonMP and @chemistry, with participation from @Wing\VC, @AMD Ventures, @outsetcap, @fiftyyears, and @ycombinator, and our…

Post Log in Sign up Post Quanting Xie on X: "The full video of hand and glove co-design in action. For hand 🖐️ we try to make sure it's able to repeat what a human hand can do; hyperextension in the index finger is a great example here.…

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