Naive, co-founded by Sean Dorje and Dennis Zax, has raised a $28.5M Series A led by Nexus Venture Partners, announced August 2026, to provide a single API that packages company formation, payments, co…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, a startup that built software to turn prompts, notes, documents and research into editable slide decks, and has folded its entire team into ChatGPT's development. The de…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared on July 25 that humanity has entered the AI singularity, a claim resurfaced Sunday in a clip from his Relentless interview. Altman said, "We are now, like, in the singul…
Daso, a children's computer startup co-founded by Max Forsey and Tim Pietrusky, raised $750,000 from Neo as part of Neo Residency 2026, announced on August 7th. The device, based on a Samsung Galaxy T…
OpenAI has acquired NextSlide, the AI presentation maker founded by Ahmed Beshry, and its team has moved to OpenAI to work on ChatGPT, according to an acquisition announcement on NextSlide's website. …
Waymo co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov warned physical AI companies against adopting Silicon Valley's 'move fast and break things' mantra, urging them instead to 'move fast and ship safely' in a Y Combinator inte…
Jeff Dean, former Chief Scientist at Google, said in an interview with Diana Hu of Y Combinator that the choice of AI model is increasingly less important than context engineering—orchestrating tools,…
Australian startups Breaker, Brumby, and Superstat have raised successful funding rounds by building moats beyond software, according to a report. Breaker, founded in 2023, raised A$9 million in seed …
Naïve Inc., a Palo Alto-based AI lab, has raised $28.5 million in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners with participation from Y Combinator, Zetta, Liquid 2, and angel investors. The company…
At Startup School 2026, YC President & CEO Garry Tan said the next generation of startups will be built by smaller teams than ever before, and that AI agents running on personal infrastructure will co…
In July, Anthropic released Claude Opus 5, OpenAI released GPT-5.6 and GPT-Live, SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5, and Moonshot released Kimi K3, a 2.8T-parameter open-weight model. An OpenAI test agent bro…
Y Combinator's open-source qm and Munder Difflin both orchestrate fleets of CLI coding agents, but qm is a headless multiplayer harness for teams via Slack and web UI, while Munder Difflin is a local-…
Context.dev, founded by Yahia Bakour, launched on Y Combinator on Wednesday, August 5th, offering a single API that collects, structures, and continuously refreshes internet data for AI agents. The pr…
Jack Ma's private equity firm Yunfeng Capital secretly led a $30 million funding round in Corgi, an AI business insurance startup and Y Combinator summer 2024 cohort member, valuing it at $4 billion, …
An analysis of 80,913 posts and 59.7 million words from 42 blogs found that company blogs increased their use of em dashes after November 2022, with cloud and infrastructure blogs at 2.0×, AI labs at …
HyperProbe, an eight-person San Francisco startup founded by Shailendra Singh and Karan Raina, launched a production-debugging tool that lets coding agents place read-only probes inside running servic…
Emergent, an AI-powered software builder founded by brothers Mukund and Madhav Jha in 2024 with Y Combinator support, has raised $230 million and reached a $1.5 billion valuation, closing a $130 milli…
A Hacker News user, Harish_0089, asks the community when to choose retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) over fine-tuning for large language models, sparking a discussion on the trade-offs between the …
Stripe CEO Patrick Collison, who dropped out of MIT twice before founding the payments company now valued at $159 billion, told Y Combinator's Startup School that his urgency to leave college was 'a b…
EdotEnv, a Y Combinator S26 company, has launched reinforcement learning environments that use quantitative trading workflows to teach large language models research methodologies. The platform genera…