Garry Tan released gstack, an open-source process layer built around Claude Code that wraps existing coding agents with 23 specialized skills and 8 power tools delivered as slash commands and Markdown…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told TechCrunch he would "do nothing" to curb AI model distillation and instead wants U.S. regulators to let smaller American open-weight labs distill from domestic frontier…
President Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson rejected the Amodei-Altman-Musk-Hassabis appeal to pace frontier AI development, with Johnson warning an emergency congressional session on AI would cost…
Meta's Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang said a swarm of Meta-built AI agents outperformed a team of 100 human engineers on specific tasks, speaking with Y Combinator president Garry Tan at YC's Startup …
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC at YC's Demo Day that U.S. regulators should "do nothing" about AI model distillation, saying American open-weight labs should learn from frontier systems through …
Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan said at the accelerator's September 10 Demo Day that frontier AI models should function as "a form of public good" and that he would "do nothing" about Chinese…
Y Combinator president Garry Tan called for smaller American open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models from U.S. frontier AI labs, arguing it would give the United States a more robust set of ope…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC and TechCrunch that U.S. regulators should "do nothing" about distillation and that smaller American open-weight AI labs should be free to distill from U.S. fronti…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said in a CNBC interview on Thursday that policymakers should focus on immediate AI risks such as cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and how autonomous AI agents operat…
Garry Tan, president of Y Combinator, says he now ships roughly 400x the work he did in 2013, attributing the gain to what he calls Personal AGI—a private stack of memory and skill files that compound…
Conductor Cloud, an orchestration layer for external coding agents, differs from Replit, a full development and deployment environment with an integrated agent layer, according to a comparison by Ryan…
A developer's token audit of MCP servers reveals that a typical setup of 10 servers injects 111,713 tokens into the context window before any user query, costing up to $2,376 per year in API fees. The…
Tech leaders are blaming Chinese propaganda, public ignorance, and bad optics for the backlash against AI data centers, which a May Gallup poll shows over 70% of Americans oppose. Y Combinator CEO Gar…
A growing number of Americans oppose data centers due to environmental, cost, and job concerns, but some pro-AI figures, including venture capitalist Garry Tan, claim China is orchestrating a psyop to…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said founders should spend heavily on AI agents, even up to $100,000 a year, to gain a competitive edge, calling it 'tokenmaxxing' and claiming it lets them 'live in 2028.' …
A developer reports that running RPI's twenty-three agent skills on a six-file change produced 3,418 lines of planning and estimated seven to ten person-days, but he shipped the change in thirty minut…
Anthropic announced it will add watermarks to Claude's outputs to make AI-generated text detectable, raising questions about whether users are willing to own their AI use. Pangram, an AI detection ser…
The San Francisco Ruby Startup Conference 2026 will take place in San Francisco, featuring speakers from Solid Queue, Y Combinator, and AnyCable, with tickets priced at $450 until September 30. The co…
Amir Elaguizy, a 42-year-old serial entrepreneur who sold his first company to Zynga in 2011, says his age is an advantage in the AI startup boom, citing his decades-long familiarity with AI and a 'vi…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan urged entrepreneurs to fully embrace AI, saying it can run on their own infrastructure and compound knowledge over time, dramatically increasing their ability to act on idea…