Can an AI agent run a startup for a year without going bankrupt? Turns out most can't. New benchmark from Collinear AI puts 12 models to the test. YC-Bench tasks agents with running a simulated startup over hundreds of turns: hiring employees, selecting contracts, and maintaining profitability in a partially observable environment with adversarial clients and compounding consequences. Only three models consistently surpass the $200K starting capital. Claude Opus 4.6 leads at $1.27M average final funds, followed by GLM-5 at $1.21M with 11x lower inference cost. Scratchpad usage, the sole mechanism for persisting information across context truncation, is the strongest predictor of success. Adversarial client detection accounts for 47% of bankruptcies. Long-horizon coherence, not raw intelligence, separates the winners from the bankrupt. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2604.01212 Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: academy.dair.ai/
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Abacus AI Simplifies OpenClaw Agent Deployment Without Setup
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OpenClaw is overhyped. Most people can’t even run it properly – setup is messy, security is risky, and it breaks easily Abacus AI fixed that. Run OpenClaw-style agents with Abacus AI Agent. no setup, no configs, just real workflows running end-to-end.
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Microsoft’s Contract Renegotiation with OpenAI Enables Superintelligence Pursuit
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New terrible definition of superintelligence just dropped: Hayden Field (@haydenfield) Mustafa Suleyman says renegotiating Microsoft’s contract with OpenAI “unlocked [Microsoft’s] ability to pursue superintelligence." Though his new JD at Microsoft AI was only made public last month, he'd been preparing for the transition for 6-9 months. theverge.com/report/905791/m… — https://nitter.net/haydenfield/status/2039705728416362864#m
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mngr: Open Source Tool for Managing Parallel Claude Code Sessions
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mngr: programmatically manage 100s of claude code sessions in parallel 🤖 open source today. lets you do things like: — for each open GitHub issue, create a PR — for each flaky test in the past week, fix it — for each rule in style guide, scan codebase & fix all instances runs any agent: @claudeai, codex, @opencode, etc. runs on any compute: locally, @modal, @Docker, or anything you can ssh into.
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Digital Simulation Drives Sustainable Manufacturing Innovation
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I’m fascinated by how digital models let us simulate real-world conditions to meet sustainability goals before we even build a physical prototype. It’s the key to smarter, more efficient manufacturing.
— Lucian Fogoros (@fogoros) 2 avril 2026
Want to see the tech? Visit Siemens at #HM26, Hall 27. #sie_HM pic.twitter.com/0H0sDKUfgDI’m fascinated by how digital models let us simulate real-world conditions to meet sustainability goals before we even build a physical prototype. It’s the key to smarter, more efficient manufacturing.
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Holodeck: Beyond VR Into Immersive Reality
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We will call it the Holodeck. People won’t see it as VR.
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Computer Technology Regression Since Moon Missions
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In almost 60 years since we first went close to the Moon our computer technology has actually regressed. https://t.co/LYgMNY0E1x
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 2 avril 2026In almost 60 years since we first went close to the Moon our computer technology has actually regressed.
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Hiring Exceptional Engineers Across Speech Data Coding and RL
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We are hiring exceptional speech, data, coding, RL and inference engineers, as well as exceptional new graduates. Also, high-performance numerical computing engineers that can build libraries for new chips. We want generalists that can do anything and put the team above ego.
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iMessage Emerging as Key Wedge for AI Agents
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it’s going to be thousands per day soon, iMessage is the wedge for AI agents
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Smart Humanoid Robot Transforms Home Assistance and Caregiving
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Smart Humanoid #Robot Aims to Transform Home Assistance and Caregiving
— Ronald van Loon (@Ronald_vanLoon) 2 avril 2026
via @ZappyZappy7
#Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology pic.twitter.com/yDBb9ezLWDSmart Humanoid #Robot Aims to Transform Home Assistance and Caregiving
via @ZappyZappy7 #Robotics #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology