Berlin-based telli has raised a $15 million seed round to deploy AI agents that automate customer operations, with backing from redalpine, Cherry Ventures, and Y Combinator. Co-founders Finn zur Mühle…
Substack CEO Chris Best launched a reader-triggered AI detector on July 21st, integrating technology from Brooklyn-based AI-detection startup Pangram to estimate how much of a post, note, comment, or …
The Trump administration is exploring restrictions on Chinese open-weight AI models after Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 release, but the policy risk is hitting US startups hardest because the models are alrea…
Senior Software Engineer Kathleen Xue at Shaped, a Y Combinator-backed API company, fixed a year-old latency bug in a single Claude session by using the SigNoz MCP server to analyze traces and code to…
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley startups, including Proton and Y Combinator, urged the Trump administration not to block access to Chinese open-weight AI models, warning that such a ban would cripple U.S. s…
Unlayer, co-founded by Adeel Raza and Muhammad Umair Siddique, has expanded its embeddable content builders to support AI agent workflows, offering a unified content layer for email, web pages, docume…
Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Requests for Startups signals a shift away from funding AI copilots and tools that help people do their jobs, which the accelerator says most startups from 2023 to 2025 buil…
YC-backed Prescience launched on July 21st, claiming its AI-managed health benefits platform can cut employer premiums by roughly 20% while offering $0-deductible plans. Founded by brothers Aditya Jai…
Thomas Paul Mann, co-founder and CEO of Raycast, argues that half the software people use in a few years will be something they made themselves, as his company's new app Glaze lets users build custom …
Libretto, a two-person San Francisco startup founded by Michael Kronovet and Tanishq Kancharla, released Browser Tools SDK, a package of six Playwright-based tools designed to reduce token usage and r…
More than 100 Y Combinator startups are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers, up from nearly zero three years ago, according to a new guide based on Bob McGrew's 51-minute breakdown of the model he ran a…
Applied Intuition is launching Dana, an agentic platform for developing physical AI applications, as co-founder and CEO Qasar Younis describes the company's mission as intelligence on a billion machin…
DeepSeek cut prices 75% on its V4-Pro model, but enterprise AI vendors are discovering that cheaper models do not automatically translate into healthier margins because agent systems consume tokens at…
Y Combinator has published a playbook for building an AI-native company, outlining strategies for startups to leverage artificial intelligence as a core business component. The guide covers key areas …
Y Combinator and Together AI have partnered to launch a dedicated GPU cluster for YC-backed startups, addressing the critical shortage of compute resources for AI model training. The initiative, annou…
More than 800,000 tech workers have been laid off since 2022, according to Layoffs.fyi, as companies including Meta, Microsoft, Oracle and Amazon push into AI and cut jobs, leaving some former employe…
Pointhound founder Jay Reno operated the travel startup with four full-time human staffers while 750,000 people used its products in 2025, The Wall Street Journal reported on July 19. Reno told the Jo…
Together AI and Y Combinator have partnered to launch the first dedicated GPU cluster for Y Combinator's portfolio of AI-native startups, providing flexible, short-term access to compute at long-term …
Ollama, the leading platform for accessing open AI models, announced it has raised $88 million from Benchmark, Theory Ventures, 8VC, and other investors. Founded by Docker veterans, Ollama now serves …
A new class of open-source, no-code AI platforms now enables developers to build LLM applications, RAG systems, and AI agents through visual canvases and natural-language prompts without manual coding…