An Indiana councilman who supported a local data center project had his house shot at 13 times by an assailant who left a sign reading "no data centers."

Google's Gemini API was used by approximately 23% of applicants to the Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch.

In its early stages during 2023-2024, the developer tool company Cursor operated on a one-day product development and sprint cycle to ship features daily.

Giga ML is developing an "AI forward deployed engineer" that uses code generation to automate customer data integration, reportedly allowing them to win deals in minutes compared to the weeks required...

Flock Safety is currently valued in the billions of dollars.

YC-backed startup Campfire is building a comprehensive, AI-native software suite for CFOs to compete directly against NetSuite, employing a "compound startup" strategy.

AI startups like Happy Robot and Salient engage in long pilot periods, often lasting six months to a year, which convert into seven-figure contracts upon success.

Anthropic has become the most used LLM API among applicants for the Y Combinator Winter 2026 batch, surpassing OpenAI.

Anthropic's API usage among Y Combinator applicants grew to over 52% in the last three to six months of 2025, up from a 20-25% share in early 2025.

One startup reportedly uses Google's Gemini 3 for context engineering before feeding the results into an OpenAI model for task execution.

A YC startup created a healthcare-specific model with only 8 billion parameters that outperformed OpenAI's models on healthcare benchmarks by using a superior proprietary dataset.

Series B-level AI startups are building model orchestration layers to abstract away specific LLM providers, allowing them to swap models in and out.

Cursor was able to compete with larger companies like OpenAI and Anthropic by leveraging relentless execution and rapid shipping cycles.

It is predicted that vertical AI SaaS companies will become at least 10 times larger than their traditional SaaS counterparts because they can capture budget from operational spend, not just software ...

Happy Robot has established high switching costs with customers like DHL by deeply integrating its AI into their custom logistics operations and workflows.

Varun, the founder of Windsurf, stated that in the early stages of a startup, the only significant competitive moat is speed of execution.

There has not been a significant step-function improvement in AI model capabilities for approximately a year, since the release of models with vision capabilities like GPT-4V.

According to a conversation with Tom Brown, Anthropic intentionally made performance on coding tasks a 'North Star' for their internal model evaluations.

Anthropic's models are considered to perform the best for coding agent applications, which has contributed to their increased adoption.

Diana predicts that manual status reports from engineering managers will become obsolete as AI-driven processes provide more accurate, real-time information.