A new wave of AI coding harnesses—including Databricks' Omnigent, DeepSeek Harness, Block's Buzz, Y Combinator's QM, Cloudflare's Flue, and Meta's Muse Code—is converging on a common architecture that…
River AI, a two-month-old startup founded by former xAI engineer Igor Babuschkin, raised $1.1 billion on August 11, 2026, in one of the largest early-stage funding rounds in AI history, led by General…
Hacker News is becoming saturated with AI business news, diluting the technical content that defines the site, according to a community post. The author calls for granular filters to separate business…
A Hacker News user proposed moving AI-related news to a separate platform, arguing that coverage of AI models, pricing, performance, self-hosting, and legislation is business news rather than hacking.…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said AI now writes 60% of the company's new code and has cut concept-to-launch time by as much as 60%, helping Airbnb post $3.6 billion in second-quarter revenue. Chesky told C…
Halluminate, an applied AI and data company that graduated from Y Combinator (S25), is hiring a Founding Member of Technical Staff - Finance Researcher in San Francisco with a base salary of $180k–$22…
Assembly, co-founded by CEO Marlon Misra and Neil Raina, launched Assembly Studio on August 13, an AI app builder that lets professional service firms generate client-facing software such as onboardin…
Bullet, founded by Adi and Alex from AppLovin and Citadel, launched as a coding agent optimized for speed in agentic workflows, as part of Y Combinator's S26 batch.…
Doola's Formation API is now integrated into Naïve's agent stack, enabling an AI agent to form a US company natively within the platform, marking the first time an entity is formed by an agent rather …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he was 'peer pressured and kind of tricked' into applying for a Goldman Sachs internship during his sophomore year, which he turned down, but now Goldman Sachs is helping pr…
Bullet, a Y Combinator S26 startup founded by Yale graduates Adi and Alex, launched a faster coding agent that resolves 479 out of 500 (95.8%) SWE-bench Verified tasks in one attempt, averaging 119 se…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said Silicon Valley needs to build more consumer-friendly AI products to change Americans' negative perceptions, noting that 159 of 175 companies in the latest Y Combinator bat…
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said founders should spend heavily on AI agents, even up to $100,000 a year, to gain a competitive edge, calling it 'tokenmaxxing' and claiming it lets them 'live in 2028.' …
Juicebox, an AI recruiting platform founded by David Paffenholz and Ishan Gupta, raised an $80M Series B at an $850M valuation in March 2026, led by DST Global with participation from Sequoia, Coatue,…
Discovered Materials, a Y Combinator P26 startup, has used AI agents from Anthropic, OpenAI, and other vendors to autonomously discover new thermally conductive dielectric materials for semiconductor …
Blacksmith Software Inc. raised $45 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, with participation from Y Combinator and GV, bringing its valuation to $550 million. The company, which provide…
OpenAI has hired over 100 former investment bankers from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Morgan Stanley for Project Mercury, an internal initiative to automate financial modeling workflows, with ba…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at the Internapalooza Conference last month that he was 'peer pressured and tricked' into accepting a Goldman Sachs internship during his sophomore year but turned it down t…
Blacksmith raised $45 million in a Series B round led by Peak XV Partners, valuing the San Francisco startup at $550 million as AI coding tools increase the volume of software requiring validation. Th…
Paul Conyngham, the Australian entrepreneur who claimed AI tools like ChatGPT helped design a personalized mRNA cancer vaccine for his dog Rosie, has launched Gamgee, a startup backed by Y Combinator …