Here’s a roundup of interesting startup links I came across today:
Y Combinator F25: The Full Batch – by Ollie Forsyth
YC’s newest batch has more AI-native startups than any other batch in history — 52% literally include AI in their company description…
Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) – About Netflix
Today, Netflix, Inc. (the Company) and Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. (WBD) announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max and HBO.
Chatbots are now rivaling social networks as a core layer of internet infrastructure
In September 2025 alone, AI services racked up roughly seven billion monthly web visits, rivaling the traffic of major social networks. That represents a 76 percent jump compared to the previous year. Mobile growth is even starker: sessions in Gen AI apps increased fivefold, and app downloads surged 778 percent.
Why I have been writing a niche history blog for 15 years
It’s also a practice of the old internet that simply doesn’t exist anymore — one of many digital behaviors that was swallowed up by social media. That whole world of blogging (exploratory, low-stakes, conversational, and assuming a readership of people who had bookmarked your URL and who read it on a desktop or laptop computer) is almost entirely gone now.
