Whiteboard, a Y Combinator W26 project, has released an open-source IDE under the MIT license that lets AI agents draw diagrams on a shared canvas via an SDK and links diagram elements directly to und…
VOYGR team (YC W26) released PlaceCall, an agentic API that places real phone calls to US businesses, navigates phone menus, waits on hold, and returns a structured response with the call outcome, a r…
VOYGR, a Y Combinator W26 company founded by former Google Maps and Search engineers Yarik and Vlad, launched PlaceCall, an agentic API that places phone calls to US businesses on a user's behalf, nav…
Vincent and Jochen, founders of Sitefire (YC W26), launched a Show HN project training a model to identify AI-generated web content using page structure alone. The founders, who have backgrounds in RL…
OpenAI, led by co-founder and CEO Sam Altman, asked the United States on September 21st to lead an international effort to develop technical standards for frontier AI, including automated research sys…
Coverage Cat, the five-state insurance brokerage co-founded by CEO Max Cho and CTO Gabriel Botelho, has published a public MCP configuration that lets personal AI agents prefill umbrella insurance app…
Seals AI, founded by Luis Mario Garcia and Orchata co-founders Heber Uriegas, Javier Gonzalez and Fernando Huerta, is building its Titanio AI sales and ordering system for distributors and wholesalers…
Coverage Cat, a licensed insurance brokerage in the Y Combinator S22 batch, launched on Hacker News with an AI-guided intake flow paired with a licensed brokerage team for comparing home, umbrella, au…
Hadrius is an AI compliance platform that automates marketing review, communications surveillance, personal-trading monitoring, and testing programs for SEC- and FINRA-regulated financial firms, produ…
Roboflow is hiring a Research Scientist for its Roboflow Labs applied research unit in San Francisco at a salary of $250,000 to $450,000 per year plus equity, a range the job board says sits 49% above…
Bond, the Y Combinator-backed productivity startup founded by Chloe Samaha, Flor Sanders and Tibo Wiels, is taking early-access signups for a self-managing AI to-do list that infers commitments across…
Verne Robotics, founded by Neil Nie and Aditya Jha, is building an hourly robotics-as-a-service model around its dual-arm Nemo robot, which learns packaging and fulfillment workflows from demonstratio…
Amika co-founder and CEO Dylan Mikus argued in a September 13th thread on X that cloud coding agents should reuse persistent virtual machines instead of rebuilding a clean environment for every pull r…
Harvard postdocs Deepankur Thureja and Gabriele Pasquale founded Dipole Labs, a Boston- and Zurich-based startup building optical circuit switches that route traffic between AI cluster racks without c…
A founder argues that the AI industry is at a crossroads between rapid commercial deployment and a more scientific push for deterministic systems, noting that probabilistic LLMs resist the fixed-rule …
Cua founder Francesco Bonacci released CUA-S1-FORMS on September 18th, a 706,048-parameter open-source model with a 2.8 MB checkpoint that plans AI agent form-filling in one forward pass instead of re…
Apollo Research launched an AI monitor called Watcher in February 2026 that checks coding agents' proposed actions before they run, as AI labs and startups turn to AI-based oversight to track agent sw…
Zettascale, a Y Combinator S24 company, is hiring ASIC and FPGA engineers to build chips for artificial superintelligence (ASI), according to a careers posting on the company's site. The posting also …
Y Combinator W26 startup Skillsync launched a tool that converts AI coding-agent sessions between Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, preserving messages, reasoning, and tool calls so users can resume wor…
Chert, a Y Combinator P26 company, has open-sourced a WebRTC framework that lets AI agents join FaceTime audio and video calls, according to the project's GitHub repository. The release includes manag…