The Brains of the Operation
Y Combinator's release of gbrain, along with talks and Tom Blomfield's Request for Startups entry, has turned the 'company brain' concept into a buzzword, promoting the idea that companies should make…
Y Combinator's release of gbrain, along with talks and Tom Blomfield's Request for Startups entry, has turned the 'company brain' concept into a buzzword, promoting the idea that companies should make…
Prodigy Research, a two-person Y Combinator-backed lab founded by brothers Michael Wang and Yuhua Wang, claims its AI-driven delta-neutral trading strategies returned 140% during Y Combinator's Summer…
Autonomous Technologies Group (ATG), a Y Combinator F25-backed AI lab, is hiring engineers to deploy frontier reasoning systems in financial markets, according to a job posting on Hacker News. The lab…
Multiple Y Combinator S26 founders have launched platforms—Decidpher, Blume, Murmell, and Almanac—to give coding agents persistent access to organizational context from pull requests, tickets, and arc…
Pennant, a two-person startup founded by Ryan Nowicki Stewart and Tomas Taylor, has joined Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch with AI software for institutional proxy voting, claiming early customers in…
Almanac, a Y Combinator S26 startup, is building an AI agent with a 'pre-compiled knowledge layer' that uses a dual-wiki structure—a private Personal Wiki and a shared Company Wiki—to enable proactive…
Almanac, a Y Combinator Summer 2026 batch company founded by Rohan Sharma, Kushagra Chitkara, and Divit Sheth, launched an AI workplace agent that compiles team activity into a self-updating wiki and …
Almanac, a Y Combinator S26 startup founded by Kushagra, Rohan, and Divit, launched an AI agent that pre-compiles company and personal knowledge into wikis to provide context-aware assistance. The age…
Locke, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded by Parth Badhwar, pairs AI agents with in-house lobbyists to help companies monitor regulation, influence policy, and pursue government contracts, claiming…
Garry Tan, president of Y Combinator, says he now ships roughly 400x the work he did in 2013, attributing the gain to what he calls Personal AGI—a private stack of memory and skill files that compound…
Singapore's tech industry faces a persistent developer shortage despite widespread adoption of AI coding tools, with ManpowerGroup's 2026 Global Talent Shortage Survey ranking AI Model and Application…
Rasyn, a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in 2025, has expanded from an AI chemistry copilot to designing and patenting new chemical formulations, claiming its models cut formulation work from year…
A developer reports that prompt engineering is being replaced by harness engineering, as 40% of AI agent projects fail in production. The shift from optimizing single prompts to managing entire contex…
CoArena, a Y Combinator S26 startup founded by Stanford dropout Prateek Jannu and Columbia graduate Nitish Kovuru, launched a free crowdsourced benchmark for computer-use agents that generates paid li…
RonanRx, an AI-assisted GLP-1 care platform founded by Lloyd Armbrust and Emily Colman, launched August 4th in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, but its service currently operates only in Texas despit…
OpenRelay, a Seattle-based startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, launched a hardware-agnostic inference network that routes AI workloads across GPUs, TPUs, and Trainium through a single API, cl…
Greptile, an AI code-review startup that reviews 5B lines of code monthly for 22,000+ customers and has raised $30M from Benchmark, Y Combinator, Paul Graham, and Initialized, is hiring a Security Eng…
Attimet (YC F24), a San Francisco-based AI research lab founded by veterans of Optiver, DRW, and Argo AI, is hiring members of technical staff for engineering and research roles to build LLM-powered s…
AfterQuery, an applied research lab serving frontier AI labs, is hiring a Research Engineer in San Francisco with a salary range of $210k–450k/yr. The role involves designing and running training expe…
Experiential Labs, a San Francisco startup in Y Combinator's Summer 2026 batch, open-sourced World Model Optimizer, a model router that learns from an AI agent's production traces to route requests to…