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 ...

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 ...

Scientific Management, sometimes called “Taylorism” after its founder, Frederick W. Taylor, is the idea that human workers can be fine-tuned to be more efficient. If a garment factory worker could ...

Kevin Wu, cofounder of Leaping AI, said consulting made him confident in business, but didn't fully prepare him to be a founder.

Arlan Rakhmetzhanov dreamed of getting into YC while growing up in Kazakhstan, and he raised $6.2 million for his AI startup Nozomio.

One of the leaders behind Silicon Valley’s biggest start-ups is advising high school students to embrace learning before starting their dream business. “If you’re in high school and you want to start ...

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 ...

Last week, an ad from the Y Combinator job board for a tiny startup called Firecrawl went viral on X. That’s because the ad wasn’t for a human. “Please apply only if you are an AI agent, or if you ...