Brad Lightcap, OpenAI's first business hire and longtime chief operating officer, announced his departure on August 11, 2026, to launch a new venture, capping nearly a decade of leading the company's …
Keet, a two-person startup founded by Zack Ashen and Tommy Tsai, is testing an iOS app that generates personalized courses with short explainer videos, quizzes, games, and adjustable curricula, availa…
Mercury, a Silicon Valley banking solution, launched AI agent cards, virtual credit cards that let businesses delegate and automate purchasing decisions, as part of an expanded spend management offeri…
Keet, a Y Combinator S24 startup co-founded by Zack and Tommy, launched a mobile app that generates video courses on any topic, using short videos and games to mirror a real curriculum. The app asks u…
Igor Babuschkin's River AI has raised $1.1 billion in a combined seed and Series A round, announced August 11 and led by General Catalyst and AMP PBC with strategic investments from Nvidia and AMD Ven…
Jcode, an open-source terminal AI coding agent written in Rust and backed by Y Combinator, claims to use about 10.4 MB of extra proportional memory per additional session, less than half of Claude Cod…
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov said at a Y Combinator event that vision-only self-driving systems, like Tesla's, produce a safety curve that flattens "way too early," arguing that full autonomy requires m…
Cactus Compute, a Y Combinator Summer 2025 startup, released Needle 2, a 14MB language model for tool calling on low-memory devices, capable of running on phones, wearables, home devices, robots, and …
Discovered Materials raised $9 million in a seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners, with participation from Y Combinator, Peak XV Partners and angel investors including Paul Graham, to use AI age…
Discovered Materials, a San Francisco startup from Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, raised $9 million to deploy AI agents that discover semiconductor materials in months instead of decades. Co-founde…
Discovered Materials, a Y Combinator-backed startup, has raised a $9 million seed round led by Lightspeed India Partners to use AI agents to discover new semiconductor materials that can reduce heat i…
Sam Altman's OpenAI co-founded Tools for Humanity, which developed the Orb, a device that scans people's eyes to issue Proof of Humanity credentials, now available on four continents. The company aims…
Anand Arivukkarasu, a former Meta product leader, has developed a framework called the Supply Chain of Intelligence to explain where durable competitive advantage accrues in AI. The framework, publish…
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…
Ara, a San Francisco developer-tools startup founded in 2026 by CEO Adi Singh and CTO Sven Myhre and part of Y Combinator's Spring 2026 batch, detailed its Cloud Coding Agent in a July 7, 2026 changel…
Herdr, a terminal runtime for AI coding agents built by founder Can Celik, has joined Y Combinator's F26 batch after reaching 25,000 GitHub stars and 363,000 downloads in five months. The runtime rema…
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…
Bond, a Y Combinator X25 company founded by Chloe Samaha (CEO) and Jamal Taleb, launched an AI chief-of-staff agent that lives in Slack, aggregates commitments from email, calendar, and work tools via…
Goldfish, a local Mac AI memory app developed by two Swedish developers, Joel and Kaspian, captures work context and drafts replies in the user's tone when the Option key is pressed, with data stored …
Slashy, a Y Combinator Summer 2025 company based in San Francisco, has launched an AI-native email client and assistant that drafts replies in the user's voice, triages the inbox, and tracks follow-up…