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February 23rd, 2025

 The Latest

The AI Revolution Is Transforming Business At Every Level

Aaron Levie, the co-founder & CEO of Box, joins the Lightcone pod this week to talk about how AI can drive abundance, unlock new possibilities, and change the way companies compete & operate.

Summer Fellows Grants

This summer, YC will be giving grants to college students to work on their own technical projects. We’re calling these the Summer Fellows Grants. We hope this will encourage the smartest students to indulge their intellectual curiosity and work on hard technical things.

Building The Future of Search

Aravind Srinivas is the co-founder & CEO of Perplexity, an AI search engine that's changing the way people discover information. For How to Build the Future, YC General Partner David Lieb sat down with Aravind to discuss his Silicon Valley origins, what it's like to compete with Google, and his vision for the future of search.

🌎 YC Community

Highlights/news from YC and YC companies
Hightouch raises $80M on a $1.2B valuation for marketing tools powered by AI
TechCrunch
CTGT Raises $7.2M To Help Enterprises Break Through the Limits of AI Compute
Business Insider
Fetii’s group rideshare app for young people attracts funding
TechCrunch
Henry AI Raises $4.3M in Seed Round
Commercial Observer
Lingo.dev is an app localization engine for developers
TechCrunch
Pulse has raised $3.9M to solve AI's unstructured data bottleneck
Pulse AI

🚀 The Launchpad

Some of the most recent launches from YC companies 
Turn historical deal insights into better, more profitable deals.
W2025
Turn Reddit discussions into marketing wins
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Read construction blueprints to extract material and cost data
W2025
Meet Tracer, the world's first fully autonomous crack sealing robot.
W2025
AI agents freeing investors to focus on growing capital
W2025
Candor helps defense, energy, and biotech startups win tens of billions of dollars in US government funding.
W2025
Our first product is an agentic search, which takes a property address and finds the owner's contact details.
W2025
Powering AI models with expert-level human data
W2025
Candor helps defense, energy, and biotech startups win tens of billions of dollars in US government funding.
W2025
Get full visibility into every backend request
W2025
Cenote eliminates administrative bottlenecks that slow down revenue.
W2025
Find more YC companies and discover new products

🔥 Hacker News

Top posts from this week
  1. Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code (github.com)
    1845 points by davikr | 386 comments

  2. All Kindles can now be jailbroken (kindlemodding.org)
    1360 points by lumerina | 421 comments

  3. Show HN: Live-updating version of the 'What a week, huh?' meme (tintin.dlazaro.ca)
    816 points by dlazaro | 153 comments

  4. Show HN: Immersive Gaussian Splat experience of Sutro Tower, San Francisco (vincentwoo.com)
    803 points by akanet | 192 comments

  5. When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines (jazco.dev)
    776 points by cyndunlop | 303 comments

  6. I helped fix sleep-wake hangs on Linux with AMD GPUs (nyanpasu64.gitlab.io)
    763 points by fanf2 | 211 comments

  7. DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days (github.com)
    743 points by ahsmha_ | 231 comments

  8. FFmpeg School of Assembly Language (github.com)
    743 points by davikr | 197 comments

  9. A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate (www.bitecode.dev)
    705 points by bertdb | 392 comments

  10. Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers (uchu.style)
    676 points by NetOpWibby | 271 comments
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