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John Gruber / Daring Fireball: Source: YC owns ~0.6% of OpenAI, which was seeded by a YC offshoot called YC Research in 2016; at OpenAI's current 852B valuation, the stake is worth 5B+ — Speaking of c

In the era of AI agents, the distance between a big idea and a working application has never been shorter. As we lean more heavily on agents to help us build applications, a critical question remains:

Amazon.com Inc. and Penske Logistics, the transportation solutions division of Penske Corp. Inc., today separately announced supply chain solutions aimed at easing business operations. Penske announce

The case against OpenAI is getting markedly stronger now that Musk is off the stand. Why? Musk’s lawyer is interrogating OpenAI founder Greg Brockman, making clear that OpenAI sold its mission as a no

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Enterprises are moving fast to embed artificial intelligence into everything from customer interactions to decision-making. The benefits are undeniable: speed, efficiency and scale. The danger isn’t n

All the Doomers and hawks are lining up behind this distillation 'attack' farce because they want to see open source banned. It's really as simple as that. They want to take away your right to choose,

Anthropic PBC announced the launch of Claude Security in public beta mode today to help cybersecurity teams scan their codebases for vulnerabilities and generate patches. Part of Claude Enterprise, th

does anyone else remember how Jacob Devlin went to the media about how Google was supposedly distilling from ShareGPT (it was not) and the resulting blowback? How times have changed 😅 https://futurism

What people call 'distillation' is a super common practice (you use other models to benchmark your model, to evaluate your inputs or to add a little bit to your datasets) that in my opinion should be

Autonomous B2B Agents-as-a-Service Entire business functions collapse into leased agent fleets: procurement, finance ops, legal workflows, even internal strategy. The shift is from SaaS (tools) to Aaa

Certifyde Inc. today announced it has raised 2 million to help businesses turn investment in artificial intelligence into broader adoption and fluency among rank and file. According to a 2025 report f

Bloomberg: Chinese regulators killed the Manus template by blocking Meta's $2B takeover in a 54-character decree, creating an uncertain era for China's growing AI industry — The AI startup Manus, once

Reuters: Cognizant agrees to acquire Astreya, which helps manage data center infrastructure, AI lab environments, and enterprise networks, for ~$600M, set to close in Q2 — Cognizant Technology (CTSH.O

Nikkei Asia: Sources: Apple tells suppliers it will maintain its current production share in India rather than expand, after local sites struggled without China-based teams — PALO ALTO, California/TAI

A few notes on how to get started with building LLM Knowledge Bases. @karpathy popularized it but most people don't know where to start. Everyone should be creating LLM Wikis. Live session tomorrow. S

check-in campaign for sending founders the most recent data points we have for them and when we received it i had never sent check-in emails because it felt rude to do so without telling them what we

Shares of Nvidia Corp. and other tech firms dropped today following a report that OpenAI Group PBC had missed its growth targets last year. The Wall Street Journal late Monday cited sources as saying

A startup dashboard or management system that consolidates key business information in a single view, including financial data, KPI analysis, funding requests, business wins, and operational challenge

An engagement dashboard is a tool that tracks and visualizes which individuals or accounts a user is interacting with most frequently, providing metrics on engagement patterns and frequency of interac

This post describes a fundraising dashboard tool that tracks and displays information about founders who are actively fundraising or considering it, along with their runway metrics. The dashboard appe

if i click on a data point, i can see the full history of data we collected, when (date) and where we got it from (update email, granola note), normalized to both annualized and monthly, with the lang

Manufacturing is shifting from relying solely on real-world testing, as high-fidelity simulation now produces synthetic training data accurate enough for production-grade AI. NVIDIA Omniverse librarie

Aditya Soni / Reuters: Microsoft is rolling out Copilot 365 to all of Accenture's roughly 743,000 employees, in the biggest enterprise deal for Copilot, following a 2023 pilot — Microsoft (MSFT.O) is

Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's

since we have asks in one place, it makes it easier to analyze where founders are asking us for help we found 75% of asks are around access to individuals or types of poeple next step here is analyze

Yohei Nakajima shared an exploration of cumulative charts as a visualization method for tracking portfolio growth metrics, specifically demonstrating how to display annualized revenue progression acro

arXiv:2604.24155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The quest to align machine behavior with human values raises fundamental questions about the moral frameworks that should govern AI decision-making. M

This year's AI Accelerator winners shipped agents for finance teams, application security, and real estate. They built with $8M in credits and hands-on mentorship from Vercel, @awscloud, @OpenAI, @Ant

When you project exponential growth – and miss. I stand by my call that OpenAI is likely to someday be seen as the WeWork of AI. Exclusive: OpenAI recently missed its own targets for new users and rev

Bloomberg: A look at Elon Musk's efforts to launch the banking and payments service X Money, delayed by US regulatory concerns, as some industry watchers remain skeptical — More than three years after

As enterprises race to wire AI into their operations, the infrastructure bottleneck has shifted from model capability to data access — and the enterprises winning the race are those treating real-time

Last year we introduced new geospatial analytics capabilities integrated for BigQuery. Building on this, we announced an expanded suite of tools at Google Cloud Next ‘26, designed to help your busines

OpenAI and Microsoft's partnership-turned-situationship just got even less committed. And a clause about artificial general intelligence, which has for years dictated the future of their deal, has off

All 22 members of the National Science Board, which advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation, were fired on April 24 without explanation. Members received no explanation for their termi

Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: Quantum Art, a quantum computing startup focused on enhancing computational throughput using its unique “multicore” architecture, extends its Series A to $140M — Quantum

Financial Times: Sources: some UK officials fear Keir Starmer's plan for closer EU ties risks the US-UK alliance, and worry the UK may be forced to adopt the EU's AI regulation — Officials concerned a

You can look at the history of media through the cost of producing a credible frame. I call this the cost of a frame. Not a good story. Not a good movie. Not a meaningful work of art. Just the frame i

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Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg: A profile of Strider, an intelligence firm that leverages agentic AI and public records to help the US Air Force, NATO, and others identify foreign state actors — Trump's ec

Here's YC's official advice about being truthful and precise about what is pilot, bookings, revenue and recurring revenue. Founders, particularly first time founders, need to sear this into their brai

SpaceX's shocking competence: 'Somebody I know once worked for @SpaceX and they were asked what it was like, and he said, 'It's like being dropped into a zone of shocking competence.' Everybody is ult

And the more distributed and open-source AI will be, the more jobs and wealth it will create! I have changed my mind on how AI will impact jobs in America. Previously, I believed AI would replace many

Mimi Billing / Sifted: Helsinki-based Verda, formerly Datacrunch, which aims to become Europe's first AI cloud hyperscaler, raised €100M in debt and equity — The Finnish cloud provider, formerly known

Jordan Novet / CNBC: Nvidia stock jumps 4.3% to close at a record for the first time since Oct., pushing Nvidia's market cap past 5T, as a rally in Intel pushed chipmakers higher — Nvidia shares close

Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Series, founded by two seniors at Yale to build an AI-powered social network on iMessage, raised a 5.1M pre-seed from Reddit CEO Steve Huffman and others — Series, a