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Y Combinator's guide to being an AI-native company: tokenmaxx, don't headcountmaxx

In Y Combinator's "Startup School," partner Diana Hu advocated for startups to begin tokenmaxxing — with leaner staff.

AI is opening doors for philosophy majors

Philosophy majors are being recruited by AI companies to help decide how machines should think and behave.

Sam Altman asked GPT-5.5 to plan its own launch party. Its requests were 'beautiful' but 'strange.'

Sam Altman asked GPT what it would like for its launch celebration. Its suggestions included toasts from its creators (but not the AI itself).

Dell Technologies: Is Your Infrastructure AI-Ready?

Arash Ghazanfari, CxO Advisor, UK & Europe at Dell Technologies, discusses the need for purpose-built infrastructure capable of unlocking AI’s potential

Codex Goes to Work

Plus: Agent-native product management, AI cost discipline, and medicine at the speed of software

Hideo Kojima sees Death Stranding 2 as a cautionary tale

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Valve CEO Gabe Newell's Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year

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AI-generated actors and scripts are now ineligible for Oscars

Bad news for Tilly Norwood.

AI is changing how we write and speak

Researchers found that AI pushes users toward a more standardized speaking and writing style.

Jensen Huang is so over the dire predictions of AI leaders like Dario Amodei

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said industry leaders need to be more "mindful" of how they talk about the potential impact of AI.

Executive Briefing: What Stripe Sessions 2026 actually means for how you sell

Stripe spent its 2026 Sessions conference announcing a stack of agent commerce infrastructure, and the consensus reading is already locked in: agents can now spend money. That reading is accurate, legible, and incomplete. The stranger thing, and the more important one, is that Stripe is preparing for a version of the internet in which the seller no longer controls the place where buying begins.

Infrasound waves stop kitchen fires, but can they replace sprinklers?

In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor activates and wall emitters blast infrasound waves toward the source of the fire in an attempt to put it out.