Good hype for fusion, bad buzz for YC

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Hype can be good or bad. This week, we’ve seen startups on both sides of that fence — and being on the good side warranted large funding rounds. Most interesting startup stories from the week Image Credits:Proxima Fusion As the week comes to a close, it is time to tally the merits and demerits. Sparkle points: A peer-reviewed journal highlighted plans from German startup Proxima Fusion, lending new credibility to its concept and design for a working fusion power plant that can operate reliably and continuously. Oops points: Y Combinator deleted its posts about the demo from YC W25 company Optifye.ai after it went viral, and not in a good way. The startup claims to be building “Al performance monitoring for factory workers,” but others called it “sweatshops-as-a-service.” Breakthrough points: Palo Alto-based startup Inception cl ... Read full article.