Why Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup has gotten so much love, and hate
Thousands of people are trying Garry Tan’s Claude Code setup, which was shared on GitHub. And everyone has an opinion: even Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
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Science Corp raises $230M as it races to bring its brain implant to market
A source close to the company says the round assigns Science a post-money valuation of $1.25 billion.
A married founder duo’s company, 14.ai, is replacing customer support teams at startups
14.ai also launched a consumer brand to understand how much AI can handle customer support tasks.
YC startups can now receive investment in stablecoin
All startups accepted into YC will soon have the option to receive their seed checks via stablecoins.
Modelence raises $3 million to smooth out the vibe-coding stack
How do you build tooling for the AI software stack? A company called Modelence has an interesting answer.
Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.
Meesho’s $606M IPO pops as enthusiasm for India’s e-commerce startups rises
Meesho had a good first day as a public company, with its shares climbing as much as 46% from its issue price as investors jumped to grab a piece of the company built around small merchants and value-conscious consumers.
Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers
Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.
YC-backed Poly relaunches as a cloud-hosted file storage with AI search
Poly’s cloud based file storage system with AI-powered search lets you search through text, images, audio, and video.
Teen founders raise $6M to reinvent pesticides using AI — and convince Paul Graham to join in
Bindwell applies AI drug discovery techniques to invent new pesticide molecules.