You know the feeling. You’re sitting on an idea that could be great, but you’re terrified of wasting months building ...

The startup incubator Y Combinator was on the receiving end of online backlash earlier this week after a promotional video from one of its companies made waves for seemingly endorsing worker ...

Artificial Societies has secured $5.35 million, including a $3.35 million round led by Point72 Ventures. The startup creates AI personas for product testing and brand propositions. We got an exclusive ...

A startup called Pig.dev that participated in Y Combinator’s Winter 2025 batch was working on a potentially revolutionary idea: AI agentic tech to control a Microsoft Windows desktop. But in May, the ...

A disclaimer about this newsletter’s title: I didn’t quite watch 243 one-minute startup pitches myself during Y Combinator’s Demo Day last week. I think I probably set a personal record for pitch ...

Y Combinator-backed startup Firecrawl is back on the hunt for AI agent employees. As we reported back in February, its first attempt didn’t yield an AI worth hiring. But it’s now placed three new ads ...

Sam Altman is the CEO and a cofounder of OpenAI, the developer behind ChatGPT. He gave a lecture at Stanford in 2014 explaining what it takes to build a successful startup. Aspiring founders today ...