
Aayush
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Aayush
@CausalMarkets
Tech, business & philosophy



The SINGLE most important interview question in 2026 (regardless of role): “What are you currently building with AI?” If they answer “nothing”? Wish them luck.


I received a full-time offer from Oracle in 2022, which I ultimately declined. I believed that accepting the PPO offer from Hotstar would provide me with greater opportunities for growth. When I discussed my decision with my supposed be manager at Oracle, I was surprised by the question of why I preferred Hotstar over Oracle; I thought, 'Why is that even a question?' Anyways, I am pleased that I chose not to join Oracle.


Delve, the YC-backed compliance startup that allegedly faked hundreds of SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits, is now accused of stealing a fellow YC company's IP. According to Part 2 of DeepDelver's Substack series, Delve took SimStudio's code, removed attribution, rebranded it "Pathways," and started closing $50k-$200k+ enterprise deals with it while telling Sim's founders the ROI wasn't there for a partnership. Here's the breakdown: > Sim (YC X25) signed on as a Delve compliance client for $15k covering SOC 2 Type 1, Type 2, and HIPAA. CEO Karun Kaushik personally promised to handle onboarding > During that same April 2025 sales call, Karun posted a SimStudio link internally with the note "ui inspo for pathways" > Linear tickets referencing "sim studio" under the Pathways project started appearing that same month. An internal Notion doc titled "Sim Studio Port Plan" lists specific folders to copy, including blocks, components, the executor, tools, handlers, and database schema Delve's production code still contains SimStudio references and docs[.]simstudio[.]ai URLs > When Sim's CEO @Emkara tried to sell Delve a licensing deal, Karun said it didn't have "high enough ROI rn" and stopped responding > Sim had no idea Delve was selling their product as Pathways until DeepDelver's Part 1 article. Emir confirmed over email that no white-label or attribution agreement existed > Leaked pitch decks show Delve selling Pathways to Brex, Anthropic, Gusto, and Notion. The Notion deal was $50k+ > The Brex deck promises Pathways will make their GRC team "AI native" and includes a 50%+ partnership discount > The Anthropic deck, dated January 9, 2025, proposes a 1-2 week PoC with named Delve staff building custom Pathways workflows > Delve outsourced Pathways maintenance to a dev shop in Bangladesh > Sim's open source license required attribution. Delve removed it, told clients they "built it from the ground up," and did not disclose Sim's code during Series A due diligence





Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at an $852B post-money valuation. The fastest way to expand AI’s benefits is to put useful intelligence in people’s hands early and let access compound globally. This funding gives us resources to lead at scale. openai.com/index/accelera…


*OPENAI VALUED AT $852 BILLION AFTER CLOSING $122 BILLION ROUND

Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at an $852B post-money valuation. The fastest way to expand AI’s benefits is to put useful intelligence in people’s hands early and let access compound globally. This funding gives us resources to lead at scale. openai.com/index/accelera…




BREAKING: OpenAI has closed its funding round at a post-money valuation of $852,000,000,000.00



Free newsletter: The Subprime AI Crisis is here. I explore the disturbing parallels between the run-up to the global financial crisis and the heavily-subsidized AI bubble, and how Anthropic and OpenAI's rush to IPO accelerates the crisis further. wheresyoured.at/the-subprime-a…


We just rebuilt every startup in @ycombinator's latest demo day batch. Here's what our agentic "founders" pulled off and what it means for the future of startups. Fully useable products at the bottom of the thread below 🤖🧨


Oracle is firing 30,000 employees, early morning layoff emails have started arriving










