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This week’s Paper Club is all about AI safety - not the headlines, the science. AI safety has been a…

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What If We Stopped Using GPUs? | YC Paper Club

This week’s Paper Club is all about alternative compute. Modern AI has been shaped by a tight coupling between transfor

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One of the biggest surprises in AI over the last few years has been how well coding agents generalize beyond…

The State of Startups in 2026

YC works with thousands of founders every year, which gives us an early look at how startups are changing. Right…

Why You're Getting Zero Replies To Your Cold Emails

The best outbound starts before you automate anything. Founders need to learn who actually has the problem, what gets th

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AI safety starts with clear limits. Learn how founders can define permissions, test failures and keep human control as AI…

AI productivity: Give Every Saved Hour a Job

AI productivity creates room to test better ideas. Learn how founders can turn saved time into customer value, with lessons…

Column: What a small firm can learn from YC's AI playbook

Y Combinator built AI into the way it operates instead of adding it as a feature. A small firm can…

Open models: protect your startup’s freedom to switch

Open models can cut AI costs, but startups need a practical way to switch. Learn how to keep customer knowledge…