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…
Brex has open-sourced CrabTrap, an HTTP proxy that intercepts AI agent network traffic and uses an LLM judge to approve or deny requests in real time, designed to secure autonomous agents with access …
A developer has launched Town, an open-source platform that blends Discord-like chat with a pixel-art town where NPCs are AI agents with distinct personalities and tool-based skills. The project, avai…
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas predicted on July 11, 2026 that top-tier AI model costs could fall 3-4x within six months and that a locally-runnable Opus-grade model would arrive within 12 months. Y …
American AI companies are repeating the mistakes of the 1983 video game crash by rushing low-quality AI products to market, eroding consumer trust. This creates an opportunity for ambitious startups t…
Monogram, co-founded by Eren Bali, launched a visual AI iPhone app and announced a $40 million seed round led by DST Global and Lux Capital. The app generates interactive visual interfaces from AI res…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan claims his company ships 37,000 lines of AI-generated code per day, but a developer investigation reveals the claim may be exaggerated or misleading, raising questions about…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan released gstack, an open-source tool that turns Claude Code into a virtual engineering team, enabling him to ship 40+ features in 60 days while running YC full-time. Tan cla…
A developer filtered a list of 12 open-source AI projects down to seven that improve coding agent workflows, including ByteDance's DeerFlow for long-horizon tasks, Garry Tan's gstack for structured de…
PGlite, a Postgres compiled to WebAssembly, has reached 10 million weekly npm downloads, driven by adoption for local development, AI applications, and testing. Major platforms including Prisma, Fireb…