From UP to Y Combinator: The rise & rise of Harshita AroraHarshita Arora has become the youngest general partner at Y Combinator. From a self-taught coder, she built a cryptocurrency app and cofoun...
Marc Andreessen sketches AGI pricing for advanced AI systems like OpenClawMarc Andreessen has outlined a tiered pricing vision for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Paid LLMs such as Claude and OpenAI for ope...
Backer Y Combinator drops Delve on compliance allegations; top brass allege smear campaignDelve’s removal from Y Combinator’s directory follows allegations that compliance certifications for hundreds of Delve’s clients were fabri...
Strategic blunder or genius?: Y Combinator’s Garry Tan reacts on Anthropic’s OpenClaw moveAnthropic announced that users will no longer be able to use their Claude subscription limits with third-party tools such as OpenClaw. User...
OpenAI’s TBPN acquisition rooted in decade-long founder ties, says John CooganOpenAI acquires TBPN: Coogan and the other cofounder Jordi Hays said they expect the relationship with OpenAI to continue. OpenAI has indic...
Zoho’s Sridhar Vembu hits back after Y Combinator’s Garry Tan said bundled SaaS would soon be irrelevantThe war of words played out on X. Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan posted a screenshot of a news story in which the Zoho CEO had said vibe coding...
'We can hang on to one or two of them,' Canada PM says of techies hit by Trump's $100k H-1B feeThe US H-1B visa fee increase to $100,000 has prompted Canada to actively court skilled professionals. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney ...
Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator's longtime group partner Michael Seibel departsMichael Seibel transitions to "partner emeritus" at YC after more than 12 years, having advised over 1,745 startups now worth $192 billion.
Gmail users targeted by AI-driven phishing attacksGoogle's anti-scam alliance is struggling to protect Gmail users from AI-driven scams. Cases like Sam Mitrovic's highlight how scammers use...
Perplexity AI to launch ads on search platform by fourth quarterLast month Perplexity AI launched a program for publishers with an initial batch of partners, including TIME, Der Spiegel, and Fortune, in ...
Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan: San Francisco's 'Twitter menace' or true believer?Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan is one of a cadre of love-them-or-hate-them tech executives and investors with lots of opinions about San Franci...
LLM deployment platform Giga ML raises $3.6 million from Nexus Venture Partners, othersThe Bengaluru-based startup aims to assist businesses that want to deploy artificial intelligence (AI) and LLM-powered solutions, by tackli...
70% of 229 startups in Y Combinator’s 2023 summer batch are B2B SaaS companiesGarry Tan, president & CEO, YC, said recent developments in AI have opened myriad possibilities and AI is thus a significant focus area for...
Y Combinator shuts late-stage investment fund, lays off employeesThe startup accelerator’s president Garry Tan informed that the shutting down of Y Combinator’s Continuity Fund would lead to laying off of...
SVB crisis puts more than one lakh jobs in red: Y Combinator petitions US TreasuryThe petition, written by Y Combinator president Garry Tan, has been signed by over 3,500 CEOs and founders. The signatories also include al...
Silicon Valley Bank collapse: top developments so farSilicon Valley Bank (SVB) — a prominent tech-focused bank managing funds of close to about 40% of US startups — was shut down by a Californ...
Silicon Valley Bank collapse: extinction level event for startups, says YC president Garry Tan30% YC companies exposed to the troubled bank and won't be able to make payroll in next 30 days, said Garry Tan