Dili, an AI-driven compliance automation platform founded by three former Coinbase employees, raised $22 million in Series A funding led by Khosla Ventures to automate prevailing wage and apprenticesh…
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…
Boris Cherny, head of Anthropic's Claude Code, said prompt engineering is largely not important and that users should focus on giving Claude hard tasks and enabling verification. In an interview with …
MIT-trained engineers Dimitris Koutentakis and Emile Germonpre have launched Atomarine, a Boston startup proposing floating data-center campuses powered initially by natural gas and later by marine re…
LemonLime, a YC S26 startup building no-code AI automations for small businesses, offered guaranteed job interviews to anyone willing to get a permanent tattoo of its logo at a YC Startup School after…
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang, now leading Meta's Superintelligence Labs, said at a Y Combinator event that AI agents have leveled the playing field for startups, enabling them to compete head-on wit…
Depot co-founder and CEO Kyle Galbraith argued in a July 29 essay that GitHub's branch, pull request, review and merge workflow was built for human-paced development and is becoming a bottleneck as co…
Tokenless, a San Francisco startup founded by Princeton PhD student Rohit Agarwal and UC Berkeley alumni Andrew Liu and Kevin W., has launched an LLM router that begins each request on multiple models…
Tokenless, a Y Combinator S26 startup, launched an API gateway that dynamically routes agent requests turn-by-turn between different models to reduce AI token consumption costs at scale, according to …
Speko launched on July 29th as a benchmark-based router for voice AI models, giving developers a single gateway that selects speech and language models using continuously updated benchmarks. Founder B…
Henry AI, a New York-based startup, announced a $16.5 million Series A led by FirstMark Capital and launched Henry Deal, software for commercial real estate underwriting, comparable-property analysis,…
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…
Polar Browser raised a $5.7 million seed round led by Madrona to develop an AI browser that automates hours-long research, recruiting, sales and operations tasks inside users' existing web accounts. T…
Tavus launched PAL Maker on July 29th, a no-code builder for its video-based AI agents called PALs (Personal Affective Links), allowing nontechnical users to create and deploy agents that see, hear, a…
Berlin-based startup telli raised a $15 million seed round led by redalpine to expand its AI agents from phone calls into customer service, sales and support across voice, chat, SMS, WhatsApp and emai…
Wiz, Microsoft, Bugcrowd, Nebula Security, and Aikido all announced AI systems that find real software vulnerabilities, but benchmarks like CyberGym measure known-bug reproduction, not real-world disc…
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…
Tokenless (YC S26) launched a drop-in API router that automatically selects the most cost-effective AI model for each request, claiming to cut inference costs by up to 57% while maintaining quality. T…
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella warned companies against relying on a single AI model, saying such a strategy risks losing control over data, workflows, and innovation, ultimately threatening business sur…
Together AI announced a strategic partnership with Moonshot AI to become the launch platform for Moonshot's open-weight models, starting with Kimi K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter sparse Mixture-of-Expert…