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- Eden Robotics is building wheel-based robots that charge $10/hour to work in factories — no robots sold, just labor
- Tenet Industries is building sub-$500 combat drones — cheaper than China — for European defense markets
- Adelante is making whole-body MRI scans 10x cheaper with a mobile trailer that shows up outside clinics
- 9 Mothers is building a 35-pound robot that shoots down fast-moving drones for the DOD — $1.6M already sold
- Dispatch Space is growing semiconductor crystals in microgravity to produce defect-free wafers — first paying customer already signed
- Madrone is building hyper-efficient data center cooling that can save 30% of grid capacity — already closing first investor check
- Diana Hu, YC managing partner and AR pioneer, says companies are hitting 7-figure revenue in 3 months — a pace that was impossible when she went through YC in 2017
- YC's Harj Taggar says hard tech is booming, SaaS investors have pivoted, and agentic coding is pushing founders toward math and physics over CS degrees
- Garry Tan says this YC batch has more defense companies than all of last year, and the era of cost-plus procurement is finally ending
- Threads hits 500M monthly active users — head Connor Hayes explains the quiet app strategy and why it won't add a vertical video tab
- Author Luke Burgis argues 'maxing' culture and social media are eroding individual identity — and AI may be making social contagion invisible
- Notch launches ACE: infrastructure that makes websites convert for both humans and AI agents as bot traffic surpasses human traffic