Alex Le Maitre
@Alex_10200
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🔎 @ycombinator's latest batch, W26 is HERE with demo day taking place in just a few weeks time — and we just published the first full breakdown you’ve been waiting for! After weeks of research, discovering the latest trends, speaking 1:1 with YC founders, and analyzing the
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🚨BREAKING🚨 The joint OpenAI-xAI offensive against Anthropic in San Francisco is ongoing, but Anthropic still possesses control over a majority of their GPUs, despite airstrikes. Early reports also indicate that a pocket of xAI forces are encircled near Salesforce Tower.
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We are living in dangerous times
Video the Palm Jumeirah being attacked by an Iranian Shahed 136 drone.
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Anduril Founder @PalmerLuckey on autonomous weapons: “It’s a lot scarier to imagine a weapons system that DOESN’T have any level of intelligence.” “There’s no moral high ground in land mines that can’t tell the difference between a school bus of children and Russian armor.”
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With the speed of AI development, I truly believe we’re going to see a new generation of ultra-lean defence companies.
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For the defense founders asking about YC: if you’re doing it with or without them, you’ve got nothing to lose by applying!
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It’s pretty funny to me that I didn’t even know about Y Combinator until last year and now we’re halfway through the batch!
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congrats to the Seeing Systems team on YC W26. interesting problems to be working on. @Alex_10200
Seeing Systems (@S2_INC) builds inexpensive strike drones designed to adapt as warfare evolves, with modular hardware, simple operation, and an agentic control system built in collaboration with Royal Marine Commandos and other NATO forces. Congrats on the launch @Alex_10200 and
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10 Ukrainian soldiers eliminating 2 NATO battalions in a half a day of training Drones are clearly a huge force multiplier! Let’s listen and learn before it’s too late 🫡
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This should really put the force multiplier effect of drones into perspective! We NEED better drone adoption! This can be supported with the right tech!
NATO: "We are fucked!" 10 Ukrainian soldiers eliminated 2 NATO battalions in a half a day of training. So, the myth of all-powerful NATO that can stop Russia is no more. WSJ: NATO forces were horrible and wiped out in a 16,000-troop drill in Estonia. 1/
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Ok Claude, tell me how to capture the President of Venezuela without any of our guys dying. Make no mistakes.
Breaking: The Pentagon used Anthropic’s AI tool Claude in its military operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro
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A few @ycombinator batch companies are going to conferences this Feb and asked me the craziest thing I did at a conference. Then I remembered the #FocalTruckSlideShow that Mike and I ran for $12k at NRF, and got 70k retailers to know about us.... until NYPD threatened to call
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this badass team of brothers has been working with NATO forces to make a new generation of strike drones. seriously cool company
Seeing Systems (@S2_INC) builds inexpensive strike drones designed to adapt as warfare evolves, with modular hardware, simple operation, and an agentic control system built in collaboration with Royal Marine Commandos and other NATO forces. Congrats on the launch @Alex_10200 and
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@agupta interesting to see YC in defense tech. modular hardware + simple operation = critical for field conditions.
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Our greatest industrialists built generational businesses to their final days and spent the profits building institutions to benefit the common man and our nation. Today our “entrepreneurs” build glorified gambling apps draining everyday people of their savings and sell
Mankind was made to explore the stars and construct monuments to majesty But we celebrate gamblegooning and dopaminergic enslavement of hundreds of millions of people
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if someone is willing to put their life on the line, they deserve the best tools we can give them.
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.@trylaurence automates performance marketing for CPG brands, starting on Amazon. They use reinforcement learning to set bids, budgets, and keyword targets like quant hedge funds trade markets: continuous optimization on autopilot. Congrats on the launch @mlaurencechen and
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