September 23, 2026
By Julie Bort
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a16z is challenging Silicon Valleys love for drop-outs by launching a school

This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade school, Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.

September 20, 2026
By Julie Bort
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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable

This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.

September 19, 2026
By Julie Bort
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Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments

AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.

September 19, 2026
By Julie Bort
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Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation

Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.

September 18, 2026
By Julie Bort
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PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI

If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.

September 17, 2026
By Julie Bort
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Musks long-time backer is giving SpaceX stock to its investors

Valor Equity Partners is handing out stock to its LPs instead of cash returns.

September 16, 2026
By Julie Bort
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We dont need AI regulation leave safety to us, Nvidias Jensen Huang says

AI isn't some new form of "alien mind," according to Jensen Huang. It's just hardware and software, so safety can be engineered by each AI product maker.

September 16, 2026
By Julie Bort
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Acronis warns of actively exploited flaw in its cPanel backup plugin

Acronis disclosed a high-severity Linux local privilege escalation vulnerability in its backup plugin for cPanel, WebHost Manager (WHM), and Plesk that may be exploited in the wild. cPanel & WHM and Plesk are used by web hosting companies and server administrators to manage websites and servers through graphical interfaces. Acronis’ backup add-ons connect the hosting control panel to the company's infrastructure, allowing administrators to back up and restore websites, files, databases, mailboxes, and hosting accounts from within the cPanel and

September 12, 2026
By Julie Bort
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Y Combinators Garry Tan wants US open-weight AI labs to distill frontier models, too

Tan wants smaller, American open-weight AI labs to use the same kind of training techniques on American frontier AI labs, giving the U.S. a more robust set of open-weight options that aren’t Chinese.