Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said AI will automate tasks, not eliminate jobs, pushing back on predictions of a white-collar bloodbath. Speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School in San Francisco, Huang argu…
OpenAI is recruiting undergraduate Campus Leads to run student communities around ChatGPT and Codex during the 2026-27 academic year, offering paid stipends, subscriptions, and event funding. The Stud…
Orca, an open-source Agent Development Environment from Y Combinator-backed Stably AI, has crossed 31,000 GitHub stars in four months by enabling parallel AI coding agents without file conflicts. The …
Weave, a San Francisco software company, raised a $13.5 million Series A led by Standard Capital with participation from Y Combinator, Moonfire, Burst Capital, IrregEx and the Agent Fund to measure wh…
Y Combinator-backed startup raises $13.5 million to help enterprises control LLM token spending as the tokenmaxxing trend collapses under rising costs. Uber blew through its 2026 AI coding budget by A…
Weave, a Y Combinator-backed startup, raised $13.5 million in Series A funding to help companies measure the productivity of AI coding tools and prevent developers from tokenmaxxing. The San Francisco…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang told Y Combinator's Startup School that fears of AI destroying jobs are 'exactly backward,' arguing that AI will automate tasks, not entire jobs, and will create new roles. Hua…
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 …
Two disabled model entries labeled "Zinc" and "Magnesium" appeared in Design Arena on July 28th, according to model watcher Lentils (@Lentils80), raising the possibility that OpenAI is already testing…
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…
Boris Cherny, the creator of Anthropic's Claude Code, said at a Y Combinator event on Saturday that users should stop giving overly detailed, step-by-step instructions to AI agents. Cherny advised des…
Shofo co-founder Braiden Dishman launched RecipeBook on July 27th, a self-service interface that lets AI developers search, rank and purchase video training data from a corpus of over 25 million video…
Y Combinator filled San Francisco's Chase Center with 6,000 selected AI founders from over 30,000 applicants across 120 countries for its 2026 Startup School, where Sam Altman and Jensen Huang headlin…
Waddle Labs launched an early-access API on July 27th that uses language-model agents to write control programs for robots, claiming it can produce a working policy from a natural-language prompt in 2…
Feyn Labs released FeyNoBg, a background-removal model, and its open-source NoBg training library on July 21, claiming the model achieved the highest published S-measure on four of eight benchmarks an…
Atlas Discovery launched out of stealth with foundation models that predict individual patient drug responses in clinical trials, targeting the costly gap between preclinical results and human efficac…
Y Combinator's Startup School drew over 6,000 attendees to San Francisco's Chase Center for a two-day conference featuring AI executives including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, Meta'…
Block launched Buzz, an open-source workspace where AI agents are treated as team members with their own identities and keys, amassing 6,700 GitHub stars in two days. Andrew Ng released OpenWorker, a …
Andy Trattner was fired from Simple AI, a Y Combinator-backed company, three weeks after being recruited for a leadership role and relocating from Greenville to San Francisco, where his rent increased…
Kurt Mackey is stepping down as CEO of Fly.io, handing control to former Docker CEO Scott Johnston as the cloud infrastructure provider raises a $25 million Series D and pivots its product toward pers…