Story
Y Combinator is adjusting Demo Day to an agent-first cohort
The startup batch is becoming a live index of where software creation has become cheap—and where distribution has not.
Topic dossier · Reviewed
Startups
Young companies navigating product, capital, hiring, and distribution.
Editorial scope
Startups
Young companies navigating product, capital, hiring, and distribution.
Essential coverage
Story
The Bay Area’s AI geography is tightening again
Labs, capital, compute buyers, and talent are clustering even as the products become globally distributed.
Feature
Paris builds an AI identity of its own
Mistral’s rise is part of a larger argument about language, sovereignty, talent, and European infrastructure.
Research
The geography of the current AI company
Company headquarters and event calendars show a dense Bay Area core with important European and global nodes.
News brief
YC sets September 10 for the Summer 2026 Demo Day
The accelerator’s next public batch checkpoint is now on the calendar.
Film
The conference paper becomes a product
A visual timeline from submission rules to a model in production.