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OpenAI has acquired presentation startup NextSlide, whose team will now work on ChatGPT to continue building AI products that help people create and communicate.
Paul Graham tweets about being impressed by Apollo Atomics, a nuclear power startup he met during office hours, lamenting the decades of neglect of nuclear energy.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is coming to San Francisco Oct 13-15, featuring Startup Battlefield, the Expo Hall, and networking opportunities. A flash sale offering up to $400 in savings ends tonight at midnight PT.
A tweet from Justin Lau claims AI has made it difficult to evaluate engineers' real abilities and points to a solution to fix this hiring problem.
An opinion piece expressing skepticism about Discovery Loop, an AI research startup founded by former Google AI leaders, arguing that automating ML research differs fundamentally from automating scientific/engineering tasks and questioning their unique advantage while acknowledging they deservedly raised funding.
Jerry Liu endorses Explabs AI, a YC-backed service that productizes hillclimbing as an automated service for agentic tasks, claiming up to 97% cost savings and 50% higher quality.
Explabs AI is officially launching on YC, claiming to help companies own AI assets at up to 97% lower cost and 50% higher quality.
This is an in-depth interview with Anthropic co-founders Dario and Daniela Amodei, covering their journey from leaving OpenAI to founding Anthropic, Claude's safety philosophy, the business strategy of betting on enterprise and coding markets, and the story behind the company's explosive growth.
A founder recounts leaving Dropbox with his co-founder, taking months off during COVID, and then deciding to start Convex together.
Axelrod Labs (YC S26) launches an AI agent workforce that automates front- and back-of-house tasks for boutique and luxury hotels, integrating with existing hotel systems.
Naïve raises $28.5M in Series A funding led by Nexus Venture Partners to expand its infrastructure that lets AI agents automate business setup and operations, including incorporation, payments, and cloud resources.
The founder of Digital Lychee recounts how, 10 years ago, after becoming a Microsoft Office reseller, they lost over a million yuan due to sales targets and price wars, reflecting on the lessons learned from working with Microsoft.
ProvenMetal, a YC S26 startup, launches a US-based PCB manufacturing service that delivers circuit boards in seven business days as standard, with no expedite fees, targeting drone and defense teams.
A short post highlighting a Y Combinator podcast with Bryant Chou about his startup Ploy, which uses AI to revive and redesign old-school websites, described as a nostalgic and impressive AI application.
AI lab Mirendil has signed a $100M+ multi-year partnership with Google Cloud to secure compute capacity for its self-improving AI research, tapping TPUs and Nvidia GPUs to scale recursive self-improvement efforts.
Ex-Spotify employees raised $10M for Malachyte, a startup applying Spotify's recommendation AI (Vector AI) to e-commerce for real-time, intent-aware shopping personalization.
Athens-based Omilia raises a $67M Series B led by Expedition Growth Capital to scale its AI-powered customer support platform, which combines generative AI with more traditional automation. The company reports $60M ARR and counts clients like Capital One and Taco Bell.
AI startup Hark launches Handoff, a computer use agent that autonomously navigates the web, claiming top benchmark scores and significantly lower token prices than frontier models.
Demis Hassabis steps down as Google DeepMind CEO to become chair and Alphabet chief scientist, while Jeff Dean leaves after 27 years to co-found AI startup Discovery Loop with other key researchers. Alphabet shares dropped over 5% on the news.
The article tells the story of Google legendary engineer Jeff Dean and his old friend Sanjay Ghemawat’s 27-year partnership and friendship, reviews their contributions to Google and the entire computing world, and mentions that Jeff Dean left Google to start a new company using AI to accelerate science and engineering.