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NIST Issues Broad Agency Announcement for Proposals to Advance Microelectronics Technologies The CHIPS for America funding opportunity will support critical research, prototyping and commercial solutions that advance mi…
NIST Allocates Over $3 Million to Small Businesses Advancing AI, Biotechnology, Semiconductors, Quantum and More NIST is allocating funding to eight small businesses in seven states under the Small Business Innovation R…
Pump.fun bounty platform pays users to tattoo tokens and chase viral stunts Pump.fun launched a new bounty platform where users started funding bizarre memecoin marketing stunts, including forehead tattoos, skydiving as…
Ahead of its IPO, Anthropic’s Daniela Amodei shrugs off doubts about AI’s returns Anthropic has been growing at a breakneck pace. The company announced that annualized revenue crossed $47 billion in May, up dramatically…
Akamai Joins Growing Chorus of Vendors Betting Big on Secure Enterprise Browsers When Akamai announced its LayerX acquisition, the company joined a growing list of vendors adding secure enterprise browsers to their prod…
BillionToOne Goes Public — The Startup That Made Genetic Testing Universal Today, BillionToOne goes public, becoming YC's fourth publicly traded biotech company. More importantly, they have built one of the most importa…
Updates for apps in the European Union The European Commission has required Apple to make a series of additional changes under the Digital Markets Act: Communication and promotion of offers Today, we’re introducing upda…
Dalton Caldwell’s Move to Partner Emeritus After 12+ years, 25 batches, and working with more than a thousand startups, Dalton Caldwell is transitioning to Partner Emeritus at YC. Dalton joined YC in 2011 and has contri…
Michael Seibel's Legacy Continues at YC: Transition to Partner Emeritus If you’ve been around YC, you know Michael Seibel has been a huge part of it for over a decade. He’s done it all - YC Founder (w07, w12), Group Par…
Assassin’s Creed Shadows comes to Mac It’s an ice-cold late winter’s morning in Canada, but the offices of Ubisoft Quebec are ablaze with excitement. The Ubisoft team is preparing the release of Assassin’s Creed Shadows…
I Know What You Meme, Even If it Emerged Today: Understanding Evolving Memes through Open-World Knowledge Acquisition arXiv:2606.05316v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal memes are dynamic and often require up to…
White House proposes vast overhaul of US science funding: what you need to know Nature, Published online: 03 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01779-z The Trump administration’s proposal aims to improve transparency in…
Reid Hoffman is leaving Microsoft’s board to go ‘founder mode’ with startup Manus After a very profitable decade on Microsoft's board, Reid Hoffman is stepping down to focus on his AI drug discovery startup Manus.
Is it time to ‘cap and trade’ credits for research-funding proposals? Nature, Published online: 02 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01777-1 Is it time to ‘cap and trade’ credits for research-funding proposals?
Coinbase Launches Pre-IPO Perps, Starting with Elon Musk's SpaceX Elon Musk's aerospace company SpaceX is set to IPO, with current estimations making him the world's first trillionaire on its completion.
As VC-backed e-bike startups went bankrupt, bootstrapped Lectric grew Lectric, which says the U.S. market is ripe for competition and choice, has launched three new brands in the past six months.
Kraken offers SpaceX IPO access through xStocks Eligible users in more than 110 markets can register for tokenized SpaceX equity ahead of the company's highly anticipated public listing.
VoidZero is joining Cloudflare VoidZero, the team behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. Vite stays open source, vendor-agnostic, and built for everyone.
Meesho Goes Public Meesho goes public today. From S16 to IPO, they’ve built one of India’s largest e-commerce platforms—empowering millions of small merchants to grow their businesses.
Startup Battlefield 200 applications officially close in 3 days Applications for Startup Battlefield 200 officially close on June 8, 11:59 p.m. PT.
Small modular nuclear reactor reaches criticality in first test The reactor, from a startup called Antares, isn't ready to generate power yet.
We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks