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Nour Zahzah and Yousef Helal's YC S26 startup, Vendo, lets users generate views, automations and micro-apps inside existing software, leaving vendors to govern what the generated software can do.

Hrant Davtyan's lab tested nearly 30 systems on 20.7 hours of Armenian audio across five speech datasets, with closed systems leading the combined ranking.

PromptBase founder Ben Stokes built Zoneless after PromptBase paid more than $9,400 a month to send marketplace sellers through Stripe Connect.

Credited to Duckbill and shitposting.ai, the parody uses two live API endpoints and admittedly invented benchmarks to reduce Stripe's OpenRouter deal to one Dutch man who says no.

Founder Xiaofei Li is applying an autonomous-driving data playbook to manipulation, with limited parity claims built on more than 10 times as many human demonstrations.

Drew Walker joins the MIT nuclear engineer in betting that one person-sized component can turn reactors into factory-built machines.

Arthur Mensch's Mistral says its retrieval loop lifted FinanceBench accuracy from 26.7% to 86% in a company-run test.

SafeDep documented an August 20th compromise in which arrayref 0.3.10 pulled a typosquatted dependency that ran a remote binary during compilation, before crates.io removed the malicious packages.

Jake Stauch and Alex McLeod are betting code-generating agents can loosen ServiceNow's grip on corporate IT.

Founder Reza Fatahi's protocol puts a broker between agents and credentials, granting access for a defined purpose and time as autonomous systems gain more power to act.

Drury says McCartney first invested in the children's audio company in 2019 as Yoto built a card-based business that has reached more than five million children.

The humanities graduate paired operating experience with two co-founders and built an AI platform around the unglamorous work between contracts and cash.

Founder TL Lim chose a long production pause over steep price increases as DRAM and eMMC costs squeeze Pine64's community hardware model.

Marc Benioff says Slack Code puts engineers and coding agents together in shared channels, turning team conversations into the agents' work queue.

Harmony Oswald says YC used her rejected 2018 Founderology application to build Co-Founder Matching. Her latest complaint says no code had been developed, while the application names rival services. Four claims have survived dismissal.

Bloomberg says Atomico led the early financing for Danyal Akarca and Jascha Achterberg's London startup, with Plural, DCVC and the UK's Sovereign AI Fund joining.

Founders can avoid gateway fees with Ramp Router, but OpenRouter offers 500+ models, wider compatibility, global access and stricter default privacy.

TrueFoundry reports lower costs than Claude Managed Agents, though its largest claimed saving also comes from switching models.

Core and Pro subscribers get credit-free everyday Agent tasks, with five-hour limits and up to 30 hours of monthly chat on Core.

The 2025 tax-year pilot saved accountants 31% of preparation time, according to Current, while keeping practitioners responsible for review.

Azamat Khamidov and Benazir Toleubekova are applying consumer-scale personalization to the moment a subscriber tries to leave.

The accelerator is turning a tool used inside its batches into public fundraising infrastructure, entering a market already served by Carta and AngelList.

The Atoms founder's sharper lesson concerns board power, founder accountability and treating capital as a competitive market.

Jeremy Morrell argues LLM-written extensions and sandboxed runtimes could serve workflows too specific for a conventional product roadmap.