When a worker thread completes a task, it doesn't return a sprawling transcript of every failed attempt; it returns a compressed summary of the successful tool calls and conclusions.

Manufact, a Y Combinator startup, raised $6.3 million to build open-source tools and cloud infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the fast-growing standard backed by Anthropic and OpenAI ...

Y Combinator, the startup incubator, has long been synonymous with Silicon Valley software companies that have digitized society: Airbnb for vacations, Reddit for sharing news and information, Stripe ...

In the latest sign of digital currencies going mainstream, Silicon Valley’s most prominent startup incubator will allow its spring cohort of entrepreneurs to receive their funding in stablecoins. Y ...

Harper is an AI-native insurance brokerage that just raised a $45 million combined Series A and seed, after a member of YC's Winter 2025 cohort.

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As promised, startup accelerator Y Combinator’s imminent Demo Day will be happening in person. In fact, YC seems to have kicked off the IRL return of Demo Day at the end of the long Thanksgiving ...

It’s been a busy news day for the Epic Games vs. Apple case. Startup accelerator Y Combinator filed an amicus brief today siding with Epic in the long-running antitrust case against Apple. Here are ...

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says the firm is thinking about opening a Cambridge office. It could focus on biotech, robotics ...