The AI Agents Helping Home Services Book More Jobs
Avoca (YC W23) is building what it calls the AI workforce for the physical economy, starting with home services. In just a few years, the company has grown to eight figures in rev…
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What It Actually Takes to Deploy a Voice Agent to a Fortune 500
Brooke Hopkins is the founder and CEO of Coval (S24), a simulation and observability platform for voice agents that helps enterprises test, monitor, and evaluate AI-powered phone…
When millions of AI agents meet
The conversation of the moment is focused on one topic: AI agents. Unlike traditional language models that simply respond to a prompt, autonomous agents can execute multi-step pla…
AI Agents Are Killing the Engineering Pyramid — Here's What Replaces It
When electric motors were invented, factories didn't become dramatically more productive overnight. The biggest gains came years later, after people redesigned factories around th…
Google DeepMind's Logan Kilpatrick: Why the Model Eats the Harness
The entire startup ecosystem is racing to build agent harnesses. Logan Kilpatrick, who leads Google AI Studio and the Gemini API, argues that scramble has a roughly 12-month shelf…
Emergent: How Six Months of Tinkering Led To A $100M ARR Company
Mukund Jha is the co-founder and CEO of Emergent, a platform that lets anyone without programming knowledge build, ship, and monetize real software by chatting with an AI agent. L…
Why AI Agents Need Context | Deep Dives with a16z
Martin Casado speaks with George Fraser, cofounder and CEO of Fivetran, about the future of data infrastructure in the age of AI. The conversation covers Fivetran’s merger with db…
Knowing What Your Customers Want, All the Time: Listen Labs' Alfred Wahlforss
Alfred Wahlforss, co-founder and CEO of Listen Labs, is building an AI agent that interviews your customers at a scale no focus group ever could—thousands of voice conversations a…
Pyramid of Work and The Future of Enterprise Automation | The a16z Show
Anish Acharya and Olivia Moore speak with Pablo Palafox and Luis Paarup about the challenges of deploying AI agents in operationally complex industries. The conversation covers th…
Why Two IIT Engineers Turned Down $550K Jobs To Build A Startup
Varun Vummadi is the co-founder of Giga, which builds AI agents for customer support for some of the biggest companies in the world, including DoorDash, one of the largest crypto…
Bruno Fernandes: Roy Keane Twisted My Words. They Offered Me £200M, I Said No.
Manchester United captain Bruno Fernandes reveals what happened the night his agent called with the news that United wanted him, how the club is rebuilding its winning culture, wh…
Head of ChatGPT & Codex: agents for normal people are HERE
📌 Try the Liberty 5 Pro series by @SoundcoreAudio FREE for 30 days via this link: https://soundcore.tech/D1204_DTC_Listing_Silicon_Valley_Girl_0_505535 Thibault Sottiaux is the h…
How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI
In this recent batch talk, YC General Partner Tom Blomfield breaks down how to build a self-improving company using AI. He'll cover how to create a series of recursive, self-impro…
Exa is Building the Search Engine for the AI Era
Today’s post is by Will Bryk , cofounder and CEO of Exa. Exa announced their Series C this morning, led by a16z . AI agents will…
How to Build a Self-Improving Company with AI
In this recent batch talk, YC General Partner Tom Blomfield breaks down how to build a self-improving company using AI. He'll cover how to create a series of recursive, self-impro…
How a Private Chef Startup Went All In on AI Agents
Yhangry is a private chef marketplace doing $15 million in GMV that's going all in on AI agents across every function of the company — from an autonomous bug fixer that shipped 25…
How to Give AI Agents Enough Context to Be Useful
Skyvern is an open source company helping healthcare businesses automate manual browser tasks, and co-founder Suchintan Singh scaled it past $2 million in run rate while personall…
How to Build an Internal AI Agent That Evolves Itself
AnswerThis builds AI agents for evidence-based scientific workflows and has scaled past $2 million in ARR with just two full-time employees — largely because they built an interna…
$4B Founder: The Next 3 Years Will Make 100 New Founders Rich
📌 If you're building with agents — visit https://outshift.cisco.com/?utm_campaign=fy26q3_agntcy_ww_paid-media_ioa-svg-outshift_podcast&utm_channel=podcast&utm_source=podcast to L…
Meet The DevTool Founders Building For AI Agents
In this episode of Founder FAQ, we asked a dozen DevTool founders from companies like Greptile, Firecrawl, Recall.ai, about the state of AI agents and the future of software engin…
Build a Self-Running AI Company in 16 Minutes (Move 75% Faster)
📌 Higgsfield MCP gives Claude hands — your agent can now generate videos, ads, photos, landing pages and dashboards directly into your working folder. Set it up in 30 seconds and…
From Zapier for Devs to Powering 90% AI Agents
Trigger.dev lets developers add AI agents to their products with a simple SDK — handling execution, long-running workflows, and reliability so they don't have to. Over 90% of thei…
The Tool the Best Engineers Are Using Right Now
Conductor is a Mac app that lets you run multiple coding agents at the same time. Create an isolated copy of your codebase in one click, tell Claude or Codex to go work, and revie…
Inside the Rise of Autonomous AI Hackers: XBOW's Oege de Moor
Oege de Moor, founder and CEO of XBOW, takes the AI Ascent 2026 stage to argue that autonomous AI hackers are already winning. He explains how XBOW's bot became the #1 ranked hack…
Waymo's Dmitri Dolgov: 20 Million Rides and the Road to Full Autonomy
Dmitri Dolgov, co-CEO of Waymo, joins Sequoia partner Konstantine Buhler at AI Ascent 2026 to talk about the 20-year arc from the DARPA Grand Challenge to fully autonomous service…
139. 【Agent的综述】和苏煜聊Agent技术史、OpenClaw Moment、边界的消弭和社会的辐射
前面在福莉和广密的节目中，我们深入揭示了AI的进化从第一幕Chat走向第二幕Agent。可以说，Agent是2026年的高频词。 关于Agent，我一直非常希望深入技术原理层，给大家做一次技术讲解，能够让我们一起非常清晰地了解技术的脉络。 今天我邀请的是俄亥俄州立大学计算机系教授、也是创业公司NeoCognition创始人，苏煜。苏煜是少数见证过Agent…
Robotics' End Game: Nvidia's Jim Fan
Jim Fan, who leads the embodied autonomous research group at Nvidia, returns to AI Ascent to argue that robotics is entering its end game — and that the playbook is already writte…