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TechCrunch Founder Summit 2026 takes place Nov. 4 at SoWa Power Station in Boston, bringing founders and investors together for a day of stage sessions, roundtables, live pitching, and networking. The agenda spans a Build Stage on distribution, fundraising, teams, and pitching, plus an Impact Stage and other programming.
Bema is a new work messaging platform built by founder Ben to address clutter in existing tools, emphasizing asynchronous communication with an optional urgent 'break glass' channel.
Paul Graham shares a chart illustrating how one month of exponential growth makes a startup's previous towering revenue look small and early numbers appear flat.
Applied Compute announced it has crossed $100M in annualized run rate and raised $350M at a $3.25B valuation led by Elad Gil, with 40% of customers using it for both training and inference.
TechCrunch Founder Summit is two days away in Boston, featuring founder-focused sessions with speakers from Toast and HqO, plus networking and roundtable events for startups, investors, and operators.
Paul Graham reminds that the application deadline for Y Combinator's winter 2027 batch is today. The announcement concerns the closing of applications for the upcoming startup accelerator cohort.
Silicon Valley database company ClickHouse is now valued at $15 billion, with revenue tripling in a year. Its core edge lies in storing the massive volume of machine logs from the AI era at the lowest cost, competing with Datadog and acquiring AI evaluation tool Langfuse.
Nitroduck, founded by plant synthetic biologists and iGEM Grand Prize winners, is launching a CRISPR-based crop design platform that delivers gene edits via pollen grains instead of stem cells, aiming to make any crop gene-editable and eventually obsolete pesticides by 2042.
A podcast interview with Rafael Vivas covering his rise from dropping out of high school to becoming a billionaire at AppLovin, where he founded Lion Studios to compete with Cheetah and later returned around the company's IPO and a $50 billion stock buyback.
Han Junlin announces joining AMI Labs as an MTS to work on world model pre-training and capability emergence, expressing excitement about building AI for the real world with a scaling mindset.
Lightberry (YC F25) announced its Lumi humanoid robot became the first and only humanoid cleared by the U.S. Department of War and exempted from the FCC Covered List, enabled by U.S. manufacturing and full control of the robot's sensors and software.
Shire Intelligence turns existing restaurant CCTV cameras into a real-time operations layer, tracking table states, server workloads, and guest needs to cut table turn times by 12% and save restaurants ~$31,000 annually. The Y Combinator-backed startup is now live in 13 restaurants and expanding its AI-driven POS, scheduling, and reservation platform.
Subvocal，一家YC 2026秋季批次的三人初创公司，推出可通过面部肌肉微动作读取无声言语的眼镜，实现超过200词/分钟的静默输入，并已融资130万美元，产品预计2027年一季度发货，预订价199美元。
Zest 推出基于短信的 AI 餐厅礼宾助手，可根据用户消费历史推荐餐厅并通过 OpenTable、Resy 等服务自动预订，标志着 AI 智能体从独立应用转向对话式交互的趋势。
Kalshi raised an additional $1B at a $40B valuation to expand into stocks, compute, indices, and institutional offerings, as co-founder Tarek Mansour reflects on the company's journey from YC to building a regulated prediction market.
Subvocal 推出了一款可通过面部雷达感知无声口型、以 200+ WPM 将默读词语转为文字的智能眼镜，实现无键盘、无语音的输入方式，并已获 YC 与 Afore Capital 的 130 万美元融资。
Runware is building a factory to mass-produce prefabricated AI data centers on an assembly line, with the key question being whether it can deliver at that scale.
Ars Technica's weekly Rocket Report covers startup Cowboy Space unveiling its Big Iron medium-lift rocket and in-space data centers, Virgin Galactic's new Delta-class rocket plane 'Apeiron' arriving at Spaceport America, and ESA's Themis reusable demonstrator likely slipping past 2026. ULA also had a strong week with a major NASA contract as Vulcan nears return-to-flight.
US startup 247Solar has contracted with India to build a 1-megawatt concentrated solar plant whose turbine hardware can also burn fossil fuels, letting the solar thermal system act as its own backup during low-solar periods.
10-person startup Phonic released Phonic-1, a speech-to-speech voice model that can invoke tools mid-utterance, ranking first on Artificial Analysis's speech-to-speech index at 87.1 and completing 79.9% of customer-service tasks with 0.61s to first audio. The company also announced a $27.5M Series A led by First Round.