🎯 **Y Combinator's Fall 2026 Requests for Startups: A Sitting Cabinet Secretary Joins the List**

• YC's Fall 2026 RFS batch is live and includes, for the first time, an entry from a sitting US Cabinet official — Army Secretary **Daniel Driscoll**, requesting startups in low-cost interceptors, sensors, drones, and resilient defense manufacturing.
• Other themes: AI tutors for kids, ocean-based "compute at sea" data centers, AI-native compliance infrastructure, and deepfake/"proving you're human" identity tools.
• _YC notes it has already funded 100+ crypto startups as it flags crypto as still one of the best times to build in the space._

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