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TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Australia is returning to Sydney on August 19, 2026, with applications closing on July 6.

Proception, a Silicon Valley startup, has raised $11 million in seed funding and launched ProHand 1.0, a 22-degree-of-freedom robotic hand designed to give humanoids and other robots more human-like object handling capabilities.

The Federal Trade Commission has approved Elon Musk's acquisition of Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers, according to a regulatory filing.

The allegations, made by Papermark co-founder Marc Seitz on X earlier this week, claimed that Corgi’s newly released Dataroom product copied Papermark’s source code and violated its license.

SpaceX has entered into a major computing agreement with Reflection AI, an open-source artificial intelligence laboratory, marking a significant expansion of the aerospace company’s data center