Just 9 months after raising a $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed a $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."
Startup Recursive has released Flint, a free, laptop-sized coding model built largely by its own AI research system, as an early test of AI that improves itself.
Hey HN, I'm Nika. I've built a tool for myself that lets user draw on the screen to annotate important parts and use it as simpler pointers for AI agents screenshot inputs.
To compete with Tesla, Rivian, and a host of Chinese automakers, GM’s fourth-gen EV platform will roll out a new central computer and electrical architecture that will debut in 2028 in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.
Hi all, I had a hypothesis that YC companies sell to other YC companies. Many times to their own batch, other times to older YC companies. One of my YC friends told me that when they approached a big, well-known company for a potential pilot, the director of engineering there was a YC alum. He said "yeah, I understand" and gave them a pilot or LOI. My theory is that most of the logos YC startups show on their landing pages will be other YC companies. They'll use that momentum at Demo D
As Amazon blocks AI agents from shopping on its site, Walmart is taking the opposite approach, introducing new technology that lets AI agents make purchases on customers' behalf, with controls over spending and transaction approvals.
Blacksmith, a platform that lets companies build and test AI code more effectively, just announced a $66 million Series C round led by Sequoia that values the company at $1 billion.