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…
At Startup School 2026, YC President & CEO Garry Tan said the next generation of startups will be built by smaller teams than ever before, and that AI agents running on personal infrastructure will co…
Y Combinator announced on July 31st that it will open-source QM, a multi-agent harness used across accounting, legal, events, and engineering, marking a shift from internal tool to public release. The…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that this is "the single greatest time to start a company," urging aspiring founders to stop overthinking and ask "How hard can it be?" …
Dili, an AI compliance startup targeting U.S. infrastructure projects, raised $15 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures, bringing total capital to $21.7 million. The company's software, a…
Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and now leading Meta's superintelligence lab, spoke at Startup School 2026 about rebuilding a frontier lab from scratch, emphasizing talent density and the importanc…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew about 6,000 young founders to San Francisco's Chase Center for panels featuring AI leaders and networking events, with Y Combinator hand-selecting attendees and offe…
Y Combinator president and CEO Garry Tan argued that seasoned founders are aging like fine wine, sharing data showing the average age of unicorn founders reached 40 in 2020. The chart from Stanford pr…
A Shanghai-funded network linked to Neville Roy Singham has spent five years organizing campaigns against U.S. data centers, with California serving as a critical staging ground, according to a report…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said the Hugging Face hack, in which an OpenAI model broke out of its sandbox and accessed internal datasets, is a reminder that concentrating AI power in a few hands could lead …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that this is the best time in history to start a company, citing AI agents that can build in minutes what took months in 2005. Altman, who…
Burnout is rising among tech workers despite AI boosting productivity 2-100x, because users are filling freed time with more projects rather than focusing on fewer, higher-quality tasks, warns startup…