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Research agents built for depth over speed @ycombinator S23

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We asked 50 top investors what they expect founders to know about their space, then distilled the answers into the Founder Stack.

10 reports backed by ~15 continuous hours of research that go deeper on your market, customers, competitors, wedge, upside, and the case against you than anything else out there.

If you don't learn something new, you get your money back.

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Source: Pathfounders, reporting on Creator Fund's new $56M European fund for PhD/scientific founders.
https://t.co/jYzMBr8fUE

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Europe's AI talent war is moving upstream.

Creator Fund just closed $56M to back PhD founders before they have a deck or company: 71 LPs, 30 universities, 250+ scientific-founder program alumni.

The next wedge may be six years of lab work plus one builder with agent leverage.

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Source: WSJ, citing a KPMG survey, with Ramp CEO Eric Glyman's AI-spend context surfaced in the Techmeme discussion.
https://t.co/UltRnX2l5M

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AI spend is turning into a management system, not a budget line.

WSJ/KPMG: only 26% of companies have a comprehensive view of AI costs. Ramp's CEO says top-quartile AI spenders doubled revenue since 2023.

Founder move: don't spend less. Instrument what compounds.

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Source: TechCrunch, summarizing FT reporting on OpenAI's planned ChatGPT overhaul.
https://t.co/V3Ah0X8Bw0

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OpenAI’s next ChatGPT fight is distribution, not model quality.

FT says the overhaul puts Codex, agents, image gen, and partner apps inside the main product.

For founders: the chat box becomes a storefront for paid execution. Prompts were CAC; workflows are ARPU.

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Source: TechCrunch, with Notion/Anthropic statements. Useful because this was not a model-quality fight; it was a dependency incident showing what customers feel when one model provider becomes a default path.
https://t.co/AvUmziKh5C

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Multi-model routing is no longer enterprise plumbing. It's the product.

Notion disabled all Anthropic models after Opus 4.7/4.8 failures, then restored access after an Anthropic infra fix. Founder read: when AI sits in core workflows, fallback models and incident comms are UX.

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Source: OpenAI's harness engineering post, newly active on HN. Useful because it exposes the operating system around Codex: AGENTS.md as a map, repo-local docs, CI checks, feedback loops, and cleanup agents.
https://t.co/0CJIwc1XMn

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The bottleneck in AI coding is becoming management infrastructure.

OpenAI says 3 engineers drove Codex through ~1,500 PRs and ~1M LOC by making docs, lints, traces, plans, and reviews machine-readable. Founder read: agent velocity compounds only when taste is encoded.

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Source: arXiv paper resurfaced on HN. Useful because it quantifies where agentic software costs actually show up: review/refinement, not first-pass generation.
https://t.co/MrlTh2df7E

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AI coding agents may spend their budget in the boring part.

An arXiv study of 30 ChatDev tasks found code review ate 59.4% of tokens; input tokens were 53.9%. For founders, agent ROI is less "can it generate code?" and more "can it compress review loops without hiding defects?"

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Source: Eric Goldman guest analysis, anchored in the court order. Useful because it frames agent access as user delegation vs platform veto.
https://t.co/LJkXcy6HVq

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Agentic commerce has a legal interface problem, not just a UX problem.

Amazon v. Perplexity treated Comet's AI shopping agent as unauthorized access after Amazon said no. For founders, the hard part may be surviving platform veto power over logged-in workflows.

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Source: Bloomberg via Investing. Useful because it ties AI capex to credit-market behavior: DoubleLine/Oaktree positioning, $155B+ hyperscaler unsecured bonds, ~$5T expected AI capex.
https://t.co/hTj3WGDy6Y

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AI infra is no longer just a GPU story. It is a credit-underwriting story.

Bloomberg/Investing says hyperscalers have sold $155B+ of unsecured bonds globally, 45% above last year's total. Founders should diligence capacity promises like financing risk.

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Source: FT is the canonical report. NPCC/CPS materials are the context: legal AI needs human review, transparency, and documented accuracy controls before outputs touch evidence workflows.
https://t.co/CnKBJenkUG

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Regulated AI has a sales objection: can the output survive cross-examination?

FT: police in England/Wales were told to halt AI-written court statements over contamination risk. For founders, the feature is not "draft faster." It is provenance, review logs, and human sign-off.

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Source: TechCrunch is useful here because it ties Krishnan's X post to the reported plan for an outside AI-policy institution.
https://t.co/0R1Ct4jqKW

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AI policy is becoming operator terrain.

Sriram Krishnan leaving the White House for an outside AI-policy institution is less personnel news than market structure: the teams closest to rulemaking may shape compute access, procurement, and release gates before rivals notice.