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…
SpaceX has finalized a $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor, founded by 25-year-old former Google intern Michael Truell. The deal marks one of Silicon Valley's biggest success stories, …
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, which handles over 3.5 million c…
AMP PBC, a public benefit corporation founded by Anjney Midha, is building a shared GPU network to pool idle chips from data centers and lower AI compute costs. The company has secured $1.3 billion in…
A Hacker News user criticized the Y Combinator news page's UI design as appearing amateurish, comparing it to a design by a five-year-old. The post highlights the contrast between Y Combinator's prest…
Apollo Atomics, a Y Combinator-backed nuclear startup based in Cambridge, has unveiled a Compact Steam Generator designed to shrink proven pressurized water reactor architecture for factory production…
A Hacker News user reported a job posting from Gauntlet AI, which they believe is linked to Lambda School (YC S17), as a potential scam website being advertised on the platform. The user expressed con…
Diana Hu has been promoted to Managing Partner at Y Combinator, the startup accelerator announced. Hu, a former YC founder whose company Escher Reality was acquired by Niantic in 2018, has worked with…
Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code at Anthropic, said he has not written a line of code by hand in eight months, relying entirely on the AI tool he helped build. Cherny made the remark during a fir…
Pylon CEO Marty Kausas declared the "era of token-maxxing is coming to an end" after his startup's Anthropic bill jumped from $400,000 to $1.4 million annually due to hitting a 150-seat enterprise tie…
SpaceX and OpenAI are pursuing public listings at valuations approaching $1 trillion despite projecting massive losses, with OpenAI alone expecting $14 billion in losses for 2026 and profitability not…
Y Combinator launched Paxel, a free tool that analyzes local AI-coding sessions from Claude Code, Codex CLI, and Cursor to create founder building profiles, the accelerator announced Friday on X. The …
YC Combinator-backed startup Trata released Hedge-Bench, a new AI benchmark built from the reasoning patterns of hedge fund analysts. The benchmark aims to measure AI performance on real-world knowled…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is backing a new AI research lab focused on user interaction and design while remaining at the helm of Airbnb, putting him in direct competition with Sam Altman, whom he helped…
Software engineer Praveen Rajamani analyzed Conductor CEO Charlie Holtz's AI coding workflow and concluded that AI tools have eliminated the easy 80% of software engineering—boilerplate, CRUD, and sta…
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky plans to launch a new AI lab, moving from AI adopter to competitor in the field. The lab's focus may center on user interaction and design, areas Chesky emphasized at Airbnb, t…
Y Combinator's latest startup batch features a cohort focused on building the operational infrastructure needed to run AI agents in production, including tools for memory, identity, compliance, monito…
AccessOwl (YC S22), a profitable Y Combinator-backed startup that replaces Okta and ticketing systems for SaaS management, is hiring a Senior AI TypeScript Engineer to build browser automations and ad…
Alex Ruber, 29, and his cofounder Parth pivoted their startup five times in three months after their initial AI-powered shopping tool proved economically unviable. The San Francisco-based founders, ac…