y combinator
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Apple Crushes Epic’s App Store Dreams Over the CEO’s Petty Tweets
A tweet from Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney pushed Apple to block the Fortnite maker’s competing app store.
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Sam Altman May Have Found a Loophole to Cash in at OpenAI
Sam Altman reportedly has no equity in OpenAI, a strange move for a tech founder, but new reporting from Wired this weekend shows the CEO would profit from an OpenAI deal to buy AI chips. OpenAI signed a previously unknown deal back in 2019 to spend $US51 million on advanced chips from a startup Sam…
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Y Combinator Is Funding Some Seriously Wild Ideas For Sucking Carbon Out Of The Air
It’s increasingly clear that we can’t maintain a stable climate without pulling carbon out of the air. But the technologies for doing so are are completely unproven at the scale needed. Which is why Y Combinator, a startup accelerator that’s invested in Airbnb, Stripe, Dropbox and other wildly successful companies, is now looking to fund…
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Y Combinator Quietly Ends Relationship With Peter Thiel
Amidst last year’s US presidential election, Silicon Valley was publicly at odds with Peter Thiel’s support for Donald Trump. But that wasn’t enough to convince people like Y Combinator’s president Sam Altman to stop working with Thiel. Now, in what has to be one of the stealthiest announcements ever, the partnership between Y Combinator and…