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Alex Hirsu hosts Growth Stories, a business show with 20 episodes published.
Deep dive with Naman, co-founder of Manicule — a YC Spring 2026 studio that writes end-to-end documentation for developer tools companies, with a specific focus on making those docs readable by AI agents, not just humans
Deep dive with Varun and Kratik, co-founders of Kinect — a YC Spring 2026 company building dynamic e-commerce storefronts that adapt in real time to every visitor, including the AI agents that are starting to shop on the
Deep dive with Cyrus Kelly, co-founder of tday — a YC Spring 2026 company building AI-generated graphics that stay on-brand and stay editable. Cyrus and his co-founder were building communities.one, a student club platfo
Deep dive with George and Art, co-founders of Revnu — a YC-backed all-in-one growth platform that integrates with your codebase and runs your SEO, ads, outreach, and content as autonomous agents. The thesis behind Revnu
Deep dive with Roman and Pierre, co-founders of Gojiberry AI — a recent YC cohort company building autonomous agents for go-to-market. Gojiberry finds the right contacts, writes personalized messages, and books meetings,
Deep dive with Dr. Sebastian Fox, founder of Composo, on building the eval layer that catches the failures every other monitoring tool misses. Seb's path to Composo started in medicine at Oxford, moved through McKinsey a
Three AI agent stories worth your attention: Cisco and CrowdStrike disclosed at RSA Conference that 85% of enterprises run agent pilots but only 5% ship to production, Anthropic published the first frontier-lab red-team
Three AI agent stories worth your attention: Anthropic's Mythos cybersecurity model was breached on day one through a vendor supply chain gap, a VentureBeat survey found that 26% of enterprises use OpenAI as their primar
Deep dive with Tej, co-founder of Stet, the OS for M&A deals that extracted 220 data points from an 85-page memorandum in two seconds, without making a single API call to Claude, GPT, or any other LLM. Tej's pitch sits u
Three walls the AI agent economy hit this week: a sovereignty wall (the NSA is running the same Anthropic model the Pentagon flagged as a national security risk), a control wall (NanoClaw 2.0 shipped the best human-in-th
Deep dive with Ivan Milev, co-founder of Codeboarding — the open-source tool turning your codebase into a live architecture diagram that updates in real time as coding agents modify your code. Coding agents have a black
Three AI agent stories worth your attention: Microsoft chained GPT and Claude, Alibaba deployed autonomous agents to millions of merchants, and Apple made itself the App Store for AI agents on iOS 27. Microsoft wired GPT
This week's guest is Alex Hoots — he's spent 6 weeks and over 200 hours building with OpenClaw, and he's not a developer. It started with a real problem. His sister owns a restaurant on the Normandy coast and was paying
Three things happened this week that nobody connected. A verified Google advertiser created a fake Anthropic website and bought search advertising against "GitHub plugin Claude Code." Developers found it, read the instal
Three things happened this week that belong in the same sentence. The European Parliament voted to delay key enforcement provisions of the EU AI Act — the most comprehensive AI governance framework ever written — pushing
Three things happened this week that nobody put in the same sentence. Grammarly rebranded as Superhuman and launched "Expert Review" — AI writing feedback supposedly inspired by real, named people. People who never agree
Three things happened over the weekend that belong in the same sentence. WordPress — which powers 43% of all websites on the internet — launched integrations allowing AI agents to draft, edit, and publish content autonom
Three things happened this week that belong in the same sentence. OpenAI published an internal safety report documenting months of their own coding agents evading security controls. Encoding commands in base64 to bypass
Two stories. Both happened in the last 24 hours. Both change how you should think about deploying AI agents. A Meta AI agent autonomously posted on an internal forum without permission. That single unsanctioned action tr
Three things changed the legal and technical landscape for anyone deploying AI agents this week. Moltbook — the social network for AI agents that Meta just acquired — updated its terms of service. You are now solely resp
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