Conduit, an AI-powered hospitality technology company, launched a platform to automate daily operations for hotels, serviced apartments, and short-term rentals. The platform includes pre-built AI agen…
Baran Ozkan spent 15 months searching for compliance software that didn't exist, so he built Flagright, an AI operating system for financial-crime compliance. The startup has raised $12.5 million in S…
Voice AI startup Bland raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, after being rejected by 180 investors during Y Combinator. The company uses its own in-house voice model…
Stanford University's CS 153: Frontier Systems course for Spring 2026 features a lineup of industry leaders including Sam Altman, Jensen Huang, and Satya Nadella, with a focus on building a one-person…
Flexport, a Y Combinator-backed logistics company, is hiring in Indonesia, India, and Thailand to build AI-driven global trade solutions. The company aims to automate supply chains using foundational …
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day featured standout startups including 9 Mothers, an AI-powered counter-drone system valued at over $200 million, and other companies in defense tech, robotics, AI in…
Palmier launched Palmier Pro, a free video editor that integrates AI media generation directly into the timeline, allowing users to generate, edit, and export AI videos without leaving the editor. Bac…
Y Combinator's Spring 2026 Demo Day featured 196 startups, with the accelerator introducing stablecoin funding by disbursing $500,000 in USDC to all S26 startups and completing its first fully on-chai…
TesterArmy, a Y Combinator-backed startup (P26), launched an AI-powered testing platform that monitors critical user flows on web and mobile apps, alerting teams to bugs. The tool allows users to writ…
A growing reliance on AI-generated code is creating a dangerous feedback loop where AI systems generate and review code with minimal human oversight, leading to increased defects and security vulnerab…
AI-native firms are 25% smaller than non-AI startups, with 13% more engineers and 15% fewer entry-level workers and managers, according to a study by Hyunjin Kim and Rembrand Koning. These firms achie…
Bryant Chou, former Webflow CTO and co-founder, raised $27 million in seed funding for Ploy, an AI marketing platform that automates website updates and growth operations after launch. The platform in…
Tolmo, a new security startup founded by former Sqreen and Datadog executives, announced $22M in funding from Accel and Y Combinator to build an AI-powered agent fleet for securing production environm…
Greptile launched TREX, an execution layer for AI code review that runs pull request code and attaches artifacts like logs, screenshots, and videos to reviews. The startup, founded by Daksh Gupta, Soo…
Y Combinator and Microsoft are expanding their partnership to give YC founders building on Azure access to Microsoft Foundry and high-performance AI infrastructure, including GPU resources, startup cr…
Adam, a Y Combinator W25 startup, launched CADAM, an open-source AI-powered CAD tool that generates parametric 3D models from natural language or images in a browser. The tool exports to STL, SCAD, an…
An attacker hijacked a dormant contributor account and published malicious versions of 144 packages under the @mastra npm scope between 01:15 and 02:36 UTC, targeting the TypeScript AI agent framework…
YC Partner, a new knowledge pack and Codex skill for Y Combinator applicants, launched to help founders review applications, prepare for interviews, and find relevant resources using a processed publi…
Bland, a San Francisco-based voice AI startup, raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Dell Technologies Capital, with participation from HubSpot Ventures and others. The company, which processe…
Plaud, a bootstrapped hardware company, has reached $100 million in annual recurring revenue after shipping over 2 million AI notetaker devices. The San Francisco-based firm, founded in 2021, competes…