OpenAI is adding four engineers from Instant, the real-time database developer tool, whose hosted cloud service will shut down on August 31st, 2027, with backups preserved for another year. Co-founder…
Hugging Face leads online communities for AI founders and indie hackers in 2025 with over 10 million registered users, according to a new overview of platforms where AI entrepreneurs gather. The repor…
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…
OpenAI has acquired the team behind InstantDB, a real-time database platform serving over 17,000 users and powering 400,000 applications, to enhance its AI application infrastructure. The deal, announ…
The Instant team, creators of the open-source Instant Cloud platform, is joining OpenAI, the artificial intelligence company. Existing Instant Cloud users must migrate within 12 months, as new signups…
Greptile, an AI code review platform, is hiring a Research Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $180K–$280K, $75K–$150K equity, and up to $25K in relocation assistance. The company reviews 5 bil…
Greptile, an AI code review startup, is hiring a Generalist Engineer in San Francisco with a salary of $170k–$300k, plus $40k–$120k in equity and up to $25k in relocation assistance. The company, whic…
Darius Monsef, a three-time Y Combinator founder, launched OzBrain, a staged, Markdown-based knowledge layer that gives AI agents like Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor a shared memory, priced from free to …
HUD, a Y Combinator W25 startup that has raised $16M, is hiring a Full-Stack Software Engineer, Reinforcement Learning to build product surfaces, backend systems, and internal tools for its RL data en…
Sphere, a Y Combinator company, is hosting Ground Truth, an invite-only event in San Francisco's Dogpatch neighborhood on AI in regulated industries, featuring panels with engineers from Anthropic and…
Swayable, a Y Combinator-backed AI and data science platform founded in 2018, is hiring a Senior AI/ML Engineer for its San Francisco office with a salary range of $175k–250k/yr. The role requires 5+ …
Starcloud, formerly Lumen Orbit, has raised approximately $200M in total capital, including a $170M Series A on March 30, 2026, reaching a $1.1B post-money valuation and becoming the fastest Y Combina…
OpenCode founder Jay V reported on X that the company's $10-per-month Go subscription surpassed 301,000 active subscribers, with a dashboard showing 301,018 accounts and 14.6% growth. At standard pric…
PostHog, the open-source analytics platform, has rebranded itself as 'the platform for building self-driving products,' shifting its focus to AI agents that diagnose and fix issues autonomously. The c…
HappyRobot, a San Francisco-based logistics AI startup, closed a $150 million Series C on August 4 at a $1.22 billion post-money valuation, led by Prysm Capital with Eurazeo co-leading and participati…
Idler, a Y Combinator-backed startup, publicly launched on Wednesday as a research lab building evaluation datasets and reinforcement learning environments for frontier AI models, disclosing a $9M see…
Unsloth released Dynamic 3.0, an update to its post-training quantization method for Qwen3.8-27B, claiming more than 10% better top-1 accuracy at the same disk size than competing GGUF files, based on…
Fabraix has opened public access to Nyx, its autonomous red-teaming agent for AI security, which tests chat, voice, browser, and coding agents using a library of over 10,000 jailbreaks and attack stra…
Pocket, an AI notetaker hardware startup, says it has reached a $100 million run rate eight months after launching, with cofounder and CEO Akshay Narisetti projecting a $1 billion run rate within two …
Screenpipe, a Y Combinator S26 startup, has launched a tool that records on-screen activity and converts it into AI agents, exposed via an API. The client captures mouse movements, clicks, keyboard in…