Sequoia Capital's thesis that AI companies will sell work rather than software is flawed because using AI for a task trains the model to do it, commoditizing the service, according to a rebuttal by An…
Ken Griffin, CEO of Citadel, warned that if the US loses access to Taiwan's chips, GDP could fall 8% in six months, describing it as a great depression in the blink of an eye. In a Goldman Sachs conve…
Anthropic deleted over 80% of Claude Code's system prompt for Opus 5, and the model became more intelligent, according to Claude Code creator Boris Cherny at YC Startup School 2026. Cherny shared a pl…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman declared that the singularity has been reached, warning that startups resembling those from a decade ago are already in trouble and that the old playbook of hiring large teams an…
Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Y Combinator and Proton, warned the Trump administration on July 22 that banning Chinese open-weight models like Moonshot AI and Alibaba's Qwen would cau…
Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Requests for Startups signals a shift away from funding AI copilots and tools that help people do their jobs, which the accelerator says most startups from 2023 to 2025 buil…
More than 100 Y Combinator startups are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers, up from nearly zero three years ago, according to a new guide based on Bob McGrew's 51-minute breakdown of the model he ran a…
Thinking Machines, led by Mira Murati, released Inkling, a 975B open-weights model that companies can fine-tune via its Tinker platform without building GPU infrastructure, enabling startups to own sp…