Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan said in a CNBC interview on Thursday that policymakers should focus on immediate AI risks such as cybersecurity, infrastructure security, and how autonomous AI agents operat…
Parameter, a Y Combinator-backed security startup, launched a platform of AI agents that continuously find vulnerabilities in web apps, APIs, and infrastructure, claiming first findings within 24 hour…
Embedder, founded in 2025 by Ethan Gibbs and Bob Wei, announced a September 10 partnership giving its firmware agent direct control of SEGGER's J-Link and J-Trace probes, letting the agent flash build…
Sumama Jameel, a 14-year-old developer in Karachi, Pakistan, has shipped nine products that he designed and built by directing AI to write, test, and debug the code. His primary project, Megabit, is a…
Conveo, a two-year-old Belgian startup backed by Y Combinator, has launched an AI moderator that analyzes thousands of video interviews to identify patterns customers may not articulate, aiming to bri…
Greptile, an AI code review platform that reviews 5B lines of code monthly for 22,000+ customers, is hiring a Product Engineer, Security in San Francisco with a salary of $170k–300k/yr to build its se…
Robocurve, an independent evaluator backed by Y Combinator, tested OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.1 on physical robot arm tasks, finding Astra completed a simple block-picking tas…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said at Stripe Sessions on May 1, 2026, that generative AI has enabled 'the revenge of the idea guys,' making deep user understanding more valuable than technical coding skills f…
A developer seeking collaborators on Hacker News proposed forming a team to build robotics startups, targeting Y Combinator's accelerator program. The builder and a friend, Varun, aim to work on world…
Ansh Chokshi and Shashwat Kapoor are building Mireye, a location data API and MCP server that provides cited parcel, hazard, utility, and site-selection data for AI agents, drawing from 85 authoritati…
Gooseworks, a Y Combinator-backed startup (YC W23) based in San Francisco, is hiring a Founding Creative Engineer to build self-improving AI agents that automate growth and ad creative for consumer br…
Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch showcases startups focusing on AI infrastructure, robotics, healthcare, and space, according to a Forbes report by Dasha Shunina. The batch highlights where founders s…
OpenAI is investigating a broad outage on September 3 that disrupted ChatGPT and Codex services, affecting conversations, login, Search, file uploads, Voice, GPTs, image generation, Deep Research, Age…
Lloyd Armbrust and Emily Colman launched RonanRX, an AI-assisted care platform that uses patient data to help physicians personalize compounded GLP-1 doses, with its public launch as of September 2, 2…
Almanac, a Y Combinator S26 startup, has launched an agent system that maintains a self-updating wiki of company knowledge and injects relevant context into every LLM call to solve context-persistence…
Y Combinator has added 'Company Brain' to its Requests for Startups, urging founders to build AI systems that capture a company's operational knowledge in plain, model-agnostic text so it can be conti…
Lumeria, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 startup, is taking $199 preorders for Lumoscope, a phone-mounted AI skin scanner that uses RGB, UV, and polarized light to track skin changes, with US shipments exp…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang forecasts that physical AI revenue will grow from $10 billion to $100 billion within a decade, making it ten times larger than digital AI. The company's physical AI currently c…
Tom Blomfield, former Y Combinator partner and Monzo cofounder, said in a Tuesday X post that after two months at Anthropic, his new colleagues are a 'hyper-earnest group of meganerds' with a 'surpris…
Flower Labs launched Endeavor 1.0 on September 1, a general-purpose AI model for reasoning, coding, and long-running agent tasks, available as a managed service or for private deployment. The Cambridg…