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Man in graffitied basement places glowing AI chips into trays — YC Spring 2026 batch tilts AI and agentic.

82% ai, 42% agentic: inside ycombinator’s spring 2026 batch

Nick Trenkler 4 May 2026 2 min read

Trench-coated man faces "AI UNIT 109" reflection across glowing server racks — securing autonomous agents at runtime.

top 5 startups racing to secure agentic ai before it's too late

Nick Trenkler 2 May 2026 4 min read

Hand on a CANCEL key beside a CRT reading "xAI PROMO PERIOD EXPIRED" in an emptied PC lab — devs leave when free ends.

competition on ai market: lesson of xai

Nick Trenkler 1 May 2026 5 min read

Subway car of commuters using grimy tablets and phones with code, while a translucent AI figure with a "$0.00" tag floats above

weekly github pulse: the boring part of ai is about to make devs rich

Julia Daimio 1 May 2026 4 min read

musk vs. altman. the full prehistory

Nick Trenkler 28 Apr 2026 6 min read

Sam Altman on a throne holding a glowing OpenAI phone, surrounded by broken iPhones, graffiti wall behind him

why would openai build its own smartphone?

Nick Trenkler 27 Apr 2026 3 min read

Illustrated figure in a suit eating from a glowing bowl of coins at a dark table — symbolizing China's growing capture of the AI token market.

china is eating america’s ai market

Nick Trenkler 24 Apr 2026 2 min read

Hourglass illustration with GPU chips blocked by a CPU at the neck, visualizing the AI bottleneck shift

the next ai bottleneck isn’t gpus. it’s cpus

Nick Trenkler 21 Apr 2026 5 min read

Cover image for an analysis of why Claude Opus 4.7 accepts fake concepts more often than Opus 4.6 on BullshitBench

opus 4.7 is worse than opus 4.6 at spotting fakes

Nick Trenkler 17 Apr 2026 3 min read

illustration for the article about opus 4.7: the quiet shift no one’s pointing at, showing claude in the crown, the best

opus 4 to 4.7: the quiet shift no one’s pointing at

Nick Trenkler 16 Apr 2026 3 min read

Cover image for an article on why MiniMax open-sourcing M2.7 matters

minimax open-sourced m2.7 late. here's why that matters

Nick Trenkler 12 Apr 2026 4 min read

Openclaw vs Hermes Agent boxing match illustration — two AI agents face off in a neon wrestling ring

openclaw vs hermes agent: how to choose between them

Addy Crezee 7 Apr 2026 6 min read

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