Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, revealed at Y Combinator's Startup School 2026 that he set Claude Tag, a new product running Claude in Slack, to rewrite the Claude desktop app from Ele…
Y Combinator's open-source QM agent runtime, version 0.1.4, has drawn 6,600 GitHub stars, 700 forks, 68 pull requests, and 14 open issues within two days of publication, according to a code review by …
Great Question, a Y Combinator W21-backed AI customer research platform, is hiring a Senior Demand Gen Manager to own the sales qualified lead (SQL) number and build a demand engine across organic sea…
Orchid, a texting-based AI assistant from Y Combinator's Spring 2025 batch founded by Nizar Abi Zaher and Adam Wazzan, faced backlash after its anniversary ad on X depicted the bot handling a boyfrien…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said Peter Thiel and Paul Graham taught him that the best investment opportunities are rarely the most popular, and that to do spectacularly well, investors must do things that a…
Microsoft shepherded an open letter dated July 24th, signed by 235 AI-adjacent companies including NVIDIA, Amazon, Y Combinator, The Linux Foundation, and OpenAI, arguing against U.S. government restr…
Morph (YC S23), a startup building inference infrastructure for open coding models, is hiring a performance engineer to optimize its stack spanning kernels, model serving, routing, autoscaling, and ca…
LemonLime, a San Francisco AI startup and Y Combinator graduate, is apologizing after offering job interviews to applicants who got its logo tattooed at a party, with CEO Jordan Zietz saying seven peo…
LemonLime, a San Francisco-based AI startup and Y Combinator Summer 2026 graduate, drew backlash after CEO Jordan Zietz offered job interviews to candidates who got a permanent tattoo of the company l…
Y Combinator-backed AI startup LemonLime hosted a recruitment event where attendees were offered an instant interview in exchange for getting the company's logo tattooed, and seven people took the off…
Kontigo, a Y Combinator S24 startup, is hiring for its USDC-smart neobank for Latinos, which uses Next.js, React Native, Supabase, Firebase, Prisma, Nest.js, OpenAI and Anthropic APIs, Solidity, web3.…
Young founders are raising record amounts of capital, but investors are demanding faster growth and offering less forgiveness for mistakes, according to interviews with founders and investors. Arlan R…
Applied Electrodynamics, a Y Combinator S26 startup, unveiled WaveSight, a camera that uses radio frequencies to see through walls and opaque materials, targeting construction, industrial inspection, …
Y Combinator has open-sourced QM, an AI agent harness it built to manage fleets of internal agents, under the MIT license on GitHub. The harness, designed for Slack and the web, provides scoped memory…
LemonLime, a five-person Y Combinator-backed AI startup, offered instant job interviews to attendees who got lemon-slice-themed tattoos at a Startup School afterparty in San Francisco in late July, an…
Plasma AI released Plasma Wiki, an open-source command-line tool that gives AI coding agents a deterministic way to inspect project knowledge stored in Markdown files, avoiding the need to load entire…
Tracer, a San Francisco AI lab founded by Adam Rida, launched Echo on July 31st, an adaptive inference system that coordinates multiple open-weight models and returns a single answer through an OpenAI…
Jordan Zietz, CEO and cofounder of Y Combinator-backed AI startup LemonLime, apologized after offering instant interviews to partygoers who got LemonLime tattoos at a YC Startup School after party, wi…
Jordan Zietz, founder of San Francisco-based AI startup LemonLime, apologized after offering 'instant interviews' to job seekers who got a permanent tattoo of the company logo, a stunt that drew wides…
Zenbu founder Rob Pruzan released terminal-browser on Thursday, July 30th, a tool that puts a Chromium browser inside the terminal where developers run coding agents, enabling live web previews and ag…