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  "id": 9163503,
  "title": "Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/andreessen-horowitz-is-launching-an-academy-with-no-homework-and",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-22T16:34:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Verge",
    "slug": "the-verge",
    "url": "https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/998813/andreessen-horowitz-ai-academy"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an \"academy\" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The \"Horowitz Andreessen Academy\" will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, and Stripe, along with $42 million in funding led by a16z. […]",
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      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Vals, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, is looking to become the gold standard for AI benchmarking",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/vals-backed-by-andreessen-horowitz-is-looking-to-become-the-gold",
        "published": "2026-09-19T13:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "a16z invests $35M in Horowitz Andreessen Academy, an independent, unaccredited two-year alternative to college; Anthropic, Meta, and others will provide compute (Katherine Bindley/Wall Street Journal)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/22/a16z-invests-35m-in-horowitz-andreessen-academy-an-independent",
        "published": "2026-09-22T12:35:02.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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