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November 10th, 2024

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How To Build The Future: Sam Altman

In this episode of our rebooted series "How To Build The Future," Garry Tan sits down with Sam Altman to talk about the origins of OpenAI, what’s next for the company, and what advice he has for founders navigating this massive platform shift.

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The AI Future Has Arrived: Here's What You Should Do About It

Thanks to advances in AI, we're currently living through one of the biggest technological shifts in a generation. Dalton and Michael break down the steps you can take right now to leverage the latest tools and set yourself up for success in the age of AI.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Property co-ownership startup Fractional raises $15M
Axios
What will it actually take to fix the NHS?
Gather
Astranis wins DoD contract to design next-gen Resilient GPS satellites
CNBC
The Problem with RAG Terminology
Humanloop
Turing College Secures €2.5 Million EIC Grant to Revolutionize AI in Adult Education
Turing College
Reducto is open-sourcing RD-TableBench, a comprehensive benchmark for PDF table parsing
Reducto

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Scrapybara - The AI Copilot for Modern Sales Teams
AI-powered people search and personalized outreach to close more leads.
F2024
Raycaster - Private Investigator for High-Stakes Deals
Giving enterprise sales teams an unfair advantage through deep research.
F2024
Sphinx - Your AI Compliance Analyst
We eliminate KYC bottlenecks so fintechs can onboard faster.
F2024
Rulebase: The voice fraud defense system for financial services
We use AI to analyze voice biometrics and call behavior, blocking account takeovers, impersonations, and voice clones.
F2024
Luthor - Human experts 🤝 AI assistants
AI-powered content, expertly refined by human content writers.
F2024
Sunset - Find and Secure Money After a Death
Use Sunset to fund a retirement account after losing a loved one.
F2024
Galini - Compliance guardrails for AI applications
Ensure AI applications comply with company policies and regulation.
F2024
Symphony - A Conversational AI Recruiter
Hire customer facing roles better & faster - Automate candidate screening, reduce time-to-fill, source better hires, and boost candidate experience.
F2024
HYBRD: Strava for elite athletes
Don't let cardio kill your gains.                                         
F2024
Andoria - AI customer onboarding manager
Generate personalized onboarding walkthroughs for each one of your users.
F2024
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Passport Photos (maxsiedentopf.com)
    1507 points by gaws | 228 comments

  2. Hacking 700M Electronic Arts accounts (battleda.sh)
    888 points by mooreds | 154 comments

  3. Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities (weiyen.net)
    815 points by yen223 | 232 comments

  4. Scientists glue two proteins together, driving cancer cells to self-destruct (med.stanford.edu)
    695 points by Jerry2 | 178 comments

  5. A change of heart regarding employee metrics (rachelbythebay.com)
    642 points by zdw | 387 comments

  6. Mitochondria Are Alive (www.asimov.press)
    613 points by mailyk | 380 comments

  7. Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab (www.nature.com)
    579 points by dataminer | 205 comments

  8. Title drops in movies (www.titledrops.net)
    538 points by gaws | 167 comments

  9. OpenCoder: Open Cookbook for Top-Tier Code Large Language Models (opencoder-llm.github.io)
    524 points by pil0u | 62 comments

  10. Diagram as Code (diagrams.mingrammer.com)
    514 points by ulrischa | 128 comments

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