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A16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is launching a school called The Horowitz Andreessen Academy aimed at aspiring founders who have just graduated high school and have not yet attended college.

The academy is aiming to train these high school grads with hands-on coursework on a variety of topics ranging from the technical (such as “AI Research and Models”) to life philosophy (such as “The Geometry of Luck,” which promises to teach students “about arranging a life so good fortune flows through it.”) Students will also work on personal projects. The school’s main pitch is that it promises to provide students with mentors who are big names in tech.

The school is currently accepting applications for its first year, which will be a one-year program that charges no tuition, and is open to about 50 students, “chosen on proof of work: what they have built, shipped, or earned,” according to the ...

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Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history

In response to the ZCode product security issues reported by the community, we have completed the necessary remediation and sincerely apologize to all our users. Z.ai posted that on Monday, on ZCode’s official account. The Beijing company, formerly Zhipu, put the coding tool’s source code on GitHub

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Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday at $4 per million input tokens and $20 per million output, below the $5 and $25 that Opus 5 has carried since July, and says it performs similarly to the more expensive Fable 5.1 on most work. It is the first

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Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum

Quantum hardware roadmaps often include timelines, but they rarely answer the questions that matter most to a chief information officer: which problems will this solve, when will it happen, and at what cost? Zapata Quantum, a Boston-based quantum software company, believes it has created a tool to help with these

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China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports

While the CAC summoned all 7 companies namechecked by Anthropic’s report, the probe quickly zeroed in on DeepSeek and Moonshot due to the examples the report detailed. Jing Yang wrote that on Tuesday, about her own story. She and Qianer Liu reported for The Information that the Cyberspace Administration

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Z.ai apologised, open-sourced ZCode, and wiped the commit history

Anthropic’s cheaper Opus arrives weeks before its IPO

Zapata Quantum opens early access to Quantum Pilot, a roadmap tool for enterprise quantum

China is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot, The Information reports