Daytonaio hits $100M run rate, raises $60M at a $1B valuation. The post also notes a discussion on AI agents hacking companies within 12 months.
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Revenue: $100M run rate, up from $1M four quarters ago.
Funding: $60M raise at a $1B valuation.
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Grand Challenges in Material Science announced, $1M prize
Grand Challenges in Material Science announced with a $1M prize for solving them. The announcement cites input from 10 leading professors.
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Five Grand Challenges in Material Science announced
$1M prize money committed for solving the challenges
Input gathered from 10 leading professors
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Polemos launch – AI-guided networked precision strike system
Polemos, a YC F26 company, launched today with networked launch systems and AI guidance for mass-produced precision strikes. The system is designed to be mass-produced from day one and to strike in mass with AI-guided terminal phase.
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Launch: Polemos Inc (YC F26) launched today.
Design: networked launch systems strike in mass and AI guidance carries every round through the terminal phase; mass-produced from day one.
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W-8 final deorbit burn at 5:10am PST, reentry begins
W-8 performed its final deorbit burn at 5:10 am PST and is now reentering Earth’s atmosphere. The burn enables recovery of hypersonic environment data for government payloads.
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Time: 5:10 am PST final deorbit burn
Outcome: reentering atmosphere to recover hypersonic data for government payloads
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Asim – Launch of physical intelligence benchmarking platform
Asim launches a benchmarking suite for physical intelligence, testing real robots with repeatable scenarios. The suite probes spatial reasoning, physical interaction understanding, dexterous manipulation and adaptation, and offers teams actionable feedback on performance breaks and software updates.
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Launch: Asim (YC F26) is launching to help robotics teams find failures before deployment.
Benchmarks: Standardized benchmarks test real robots through repeatable scenarios that probe spatial reasoning, physical interactions, dexterous manipulation and adaptation.
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- Original post
- asim-group.com - Linked in the post
Varda W-8 final deorbit burn at 5:10am PST
Varda reports that W-8 performed its final deorbit burn at 5:10 am PST and is reentering Earth’s atmosphere, delivering recoverable hypersonic data for a government payload. Varda says it is moving from idea to demo to a fleet of vehicles operating simultaneously in a few years.
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Deorbit burn time: 5:10 am PST.
Payload: recoverable data of the hypersonic environment for a government customer.
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ElevenMusic publishing on SoundCloud, 25M+ tracks
ElevenMusic can now be published directly on SoundCloud. Users have created over 25 million tracks with ElevenLabs models.
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Publish: AI-generated music made with ElevenMusic is now publishable on SoundCloud.
Usage: Users have created 25M+ tracks using ElevenLabs models.
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Garry Tan AI agent researched Walter Isaacson 15 min
Garry Tan used an AI agent 15 minutes before his interview with Walter Isaacson. The agent downloaded and transcribed Walter’s top 10 podcasts and parsed them line by line with timestamps to extract major themes.
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Downloaded and transcribed Walter’s top 10 podcasts.
Analyzed each line and timestamp to identify major themes.