This YC-backed startup wants to speed up US visa applications with AI. Read the pitch deck it used to raise $2.7 million.

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Gale co-founders Rishabh Sambare, Rahul Gudise and Haokun Qin.
Gale cofounders Rishabh Sambare, Rahul Gudise, and Haokun Qin.

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Sam Altman thanks Elon Musk for helping to initially bankroll OpenAI — and says now is a great time for tech founders

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Sam Altman said he was "very grateful" to Elon Musk for cutting OpenAI an early check.

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Y Combinator is making its first weapons industry bet on a company that wants to be the SpaceX of missiles

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US-made MIM-104 Patriot surface-to-air missile getting launched during a live fire exercise at the Chiupeng missile base in Pingtung county, southern Taiwan.
"In a war with Taiwan, we would fire thousands of anti-ship missiles a week, and our stockpiles would run out in days.

Y Combinator founder says Sam Altman wasn't fired

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman served as president of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, from 2014 to 2019.

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Investor Paul Graham explains why it's better to take a job at a startup over a big company — even if it ends up failing

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The history of OpenAI, from the early days with Elon Musk to the ChatGPT maker being put on blast by Scarlett Johansson

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OpenAI logo displayed on a phone screen and a laptop keyboard are seen in this illustration photo taken in Poland on April 24, 2022.
OpenAI's latest product announcement is GPT-4o.

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The race for ever-cooler workplaces is leaving employees the winners

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In a production studio complete with professional cameras and lighting fixtures, Y Combinator partners Diana Hu, Harj Taggar, Garry Tan, and Jared Friedman record an episode of the Lightcone podcast.
Y Combinator's new San Francisco campus features a production studio.

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Reddit's co-founder is bickering with investors on the company's big IPO day

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Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian

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Sam Altman reportedly returned to OpenAI with the help of his tech exec friends, interim CEO Emmett Shear and Airbnb's Brian Chesky

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Airbnb's Brian Chesky, former Twitch CEO Emmett Shear, and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
Silicon Valley tech execs came together to reinstate Altman as CEO at OpenAI.

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Sam Altman enters his power era

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The reinstatement of Sam Altman as OpenAI CEO demonstrated the immense level of power he wields.

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