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JUN 16, 2026
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JUN 16, 2026 Business deep
44% of YC's Spring 2026 batch is the same company. That's the bet.
A founder analyzed all 196 YC Spring 2026 companies and found 86 are the same shape: AI-native B2B Agent-as-a-Service. That convergence is YC's 2024 vertical-agent thesis executed at scale — and a wager that speed beats defensibility.
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MAY 24, 2026 Tools deep
gstack: every skill, every command, and who should use it
Garry Tan's gstack passed 101,020 GitHub stars in ten weeks. Inside the repo: 33 slash commands, 7 standalone CLIs, 4 OpenClaw skills. Here is the full reference, every skill with three concrete examples, and the LOC controversy decoded.
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MAY 22, 2026 Business news
Sam Altman writes a $2M token cheque to every YC company — and takes the uncapped SAFE
OpenAI is putting $2M of API tokens into every YC Spring and Summer 2026 startup. The instrument is an uncapped SAFE. The deadline moved to May 25.
5 MIN
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MAY 20, 2026 Business deep
Three weeks after the YC Summer 2026 RFS, the Spring batch is the field check
The Spring 2026 batch is the empirical answer to the April 30 RFS read. Eight predictions held, four broke, and OpenAI just rewrote every cap table.
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MAY 13, 2026 Business deep
Paul Graham just put a number on the post-YC geography decision — and the press missed it
YC now has internal data on what happens to startups that go home after the batch. They're only half as likely to become unicorns. Graham disclosed it on stage in Stockholm; coverage led with the wrong sentence.
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APR 23, 2026 Business deep
YC's Summer 2026 RFS, read against the chatter
Y Combinator's Summer 2026 Request for Startups thread reached 8.65M impressions in a week. The chatter underneath the list is more useful than the list.
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