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Garry Tan is president and CEO of Y Combinator, the startup accelerator, and a prominent tech investor and commentator on AI and startup policy.
Meta launched its personal agent Muse on Tuesday for US adults, and in the company's own description the only party who approves a connector is the person holding the account. Tailscale and Plaid are on the list.
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Y Combinator's chief said he would do nothing about model distillation, two days after the NSA, FBI and CISA accused six Chinese firms of doing it at scale. Every defence the agencies recommend is the providers' own work.
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The Toronto connectivity company's monthly active users have doubled to 2.5 million alongside those accounts, and the enthusiasm coming from Silicon Valley builders has no public revenue, valuation or funding figure to test it against.
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Lenny's newsletter counted eval experience in nearly half of 25 product manager postings it listed, and the two practitioners it commissioned say most teams skip error discovery and write metrics for failures they never found.
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Alexandr Wang told a Y Combinator audience that a swarm of Meta agents scheduled by cron beat 100 engineers on specific tasks, and he credited the evaluation system for the result. Meta paid $14.3 billion for Scale AI.
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The Y Combinator CEO told CNBC he would do nothing about distillation and floated an American version of it, in the same week Anthropic's second report accused Chinese labs of using stolen credentials to do it.
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Y Combinator's chief executive would leave distillation alone and have regulators police the gap between open weight and frontier pricing, while the NSA, CISA and FBI treat the copying as a cyber security matter.
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Conductor sells orchestration for agents you already pay for. Replit sells the environment they run in. The quota that runs out first decides which of those bills is the wasted one.
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Local opposition has become a scheduling risk with a governor's signature on it. The industry's leaders cannot agree whether the cause is arithmetic, foreign propaganda, or their own conduct.
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A source counter records how much an agent fetched, not how many independent claims it found. One pasted audit was enough to show the difference.
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