Only 4% of the startups in YC's 2026 spring batch had a native mobile app as their main product, down from 15% in 2013, as startups focus on AI and agents (Parmy Olson/Bloomberg)

Only 4% of Y Combinator’s 2026 spring batch startups list a native mobile app as their primary product, down from 15% in 2013, indicating a shift toward AI and agent-based offerings. Anthropic reported intercepting multiple attempts to misuse its Claude model for cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biological-weapon research, and large-scale data-distillation by Chinese firms such as Moonshot and DeepSeek. OpenAI paused its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan to preserve system capacity while launching a specialized ChatGPT for financial services with Morgan Stanley and Evercore.