Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $42 million investment in the Horowitz Andreessen Academy, a for-profit San Francisco school it incubated, with backing from Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke and Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan. Starting September 2027, about 50 graduating high schoolers will join a tuition-free, one-year fellowship featuring project-based coursework led by tech industry figures, plus over $50,000 in computing credits and $5,000 for travel. Udemy co-founder Gagan Biyani will serve as CEO, and the school plans to seek approval for a paid two-year program starting fall 2028.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-02
The market for artificial intelligence tools in education has grown from $150 million in 2021 to $730 million in 2026, according to industry estimates, despite various state laws and school board rules restricting AI use in classrooms. Analysts project the sector will reach $18.5 billion by 2036.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
An analysis argues that older adults who are retired or otherwise outside workplaces and schools are largely missing from current AI safety education efforts. It notes that most training and awareness initiatives target children in school or employees at work, leaving a gap for those without such institutional touchpoints.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-10-01
An opinion column contends that artificial intelligence tools could be used to bring back Socratic-style dialogue as a teaching and assessment method, contrasting it with traditional methods like term papers that emerged after the advent of libraries and printed books.
wsj.com
· 2026-09-28
Natasha Singer's book 'Coding Kids' traces how Code.org and its founder Hadi Partovi convinced schools that coding was essential to economic survival, paving the way for tech companies to influence curricula. In an interview with The 74, Singer argues today's AI push by Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic and Google into classrooms mirrors that earlier coding campaign, despite growing public distrust of Big Tech.
news.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-18
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a one-year moratorium starting in the 2026-2027 school year that blocks roughly 600,000 students from pre-K through eighth grade from using AI in class, and bars teachers from using AI to grade their work. Companion and mental-support chatbots will be prohibited at all grade levels, individual screens are banned until third grade, and screen time guidance caps middle schoolers at 45 minutes daily. High schoolers will get limited AI access, twice-yearly AI literacy lessons, and a small pilot program testing vetted AI tools in a handful of classrooms.
theverge.com
· 2026-09-02
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