a16z has launched the Andreessen Horowitz Academy, which aims to train young talent to develop artificial intelligence products.

Beating AI News – Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) has invested $35 million to launch the Andreessen Academy, a program for young people aged 16 to 22. Ten tech companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, Palantir, and Stripe are its founding partners. This academy deviates significantly from traditional university models: admissions prioritize applicants’ existing achievements, and students spend up to 80% of their time on hands-on projects such as training AI models, building products, or launching startups. Each student will also receive over $50,000 worth of computing power and technical resources. Instructors are mostly from tech companies and the startup ecosystem, including figures like Sam Altman, Li Feifei, and Figma CEO Dylan Field. Students also gain direct access to learning and internships at partner companies; over 40 firms including Cognition, Databricks, Notion, and Shopify have joined as recruitment partners. a16z is also integrating startup funding into the program, with partner Erik Torenberg stating the firm will likely invest in entrepreneurs emerging from the academy. The academy unifies processes previously scattered across universities and various Silicon Valley sectors—from admissions and education to internships, recruitment, and startup funding. Its inaugural cohort will enroll around 50 students, with classes starting in fall 2027, and the first year is tuition-free. The official two-year program is set to launch in 2028, pending regulatory approval and without university accreditation for now. Future tuition is expected to align with that of top U.S. private universities.

Per GMGN market data, Solana ecosystem meme coin Super Inu rallied over 300% in a short period, with its current market cap standing at $7.23 million. Issued on the Stonk platform, Super Inu draws inspiration from former US President Trump’s push to rename artificial intelligence (AI) as "Super Intelligence". It is paired with tokenized US stock Nvidia, built on the Backed Finance/xStocks framework. Trump announced in his recent UN General Assembly speech that he intends to rename AI to "Super Intelligence", and all US government documents will use the term "Super Intelligence". BlockBeats cautions users that related tokens have small market capitalizations, high price volatility, and early holders have already reaped substantial profits, so there may be considerable selling pressure in the short term. Users are advised to exercise caution when investing.

Beating AI Express News: Cloudflare has launched Worker Previews. Workers can be simply understood as backend programs running on Cloudflare, used to handle APIs, logins, databases, and web requests. Now, every time a developer or Coding Agent creates a new Git branch, they can spin up an independent temporary test environment for these Workers. They can modify code and deploy it directly for testing without touching the production site. This test environment comes with its own URL, logs, and runtime status, and can also create separate resources such as Durable Objects and Containers. As a result, Agents can independently complete the full workflow: modifying code, deploying, opening web pages for testing, checking errors, and making further revisions. Cloudflare previously offered Preview URLs, but these mainly generated temporary URLs for a specific Worker version, with underlying resources still potentially linked to the production environment. Now each branch can run a separate instance, so Agents no longer have to worry about disrupting live services when testing new code.

During his speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Trump stated that the U.S. opposes any global "plot" to control artificial intelligence. "We will encourage superintelligence, not restrict it," he said. Additionally, Trump announced plans to rename artificial intelligence to "superintelligence", with all U.S. official documents adopting the term "Super Intelligence".

Beating AI Newsflash: LatePost reports that Doubao’s General Session team is downsizing. The team, which previously had around 50 members and was once Doubao’s largest internal team, is primarily responsible for dialogue strategy, evaluation, and response experience. The team is expected to shrink by roughly half post-adjustment: some employees will be reassigned to Doubao’s commercialization, Feishu, and other teams, while the rest will be laid off. The model side is also contracting. The Product Posttrain-Chat team, responsible for post-training Doubao dialogues, has seen some staff transferred to Horizon RL and Product Posttrain-Work. The latter team mainly serves office and AI agent scenarios. In August this year, Seed just established Product Posttrain-Work while renaming the original Application team to Product Posttrain-Chat. Less than two months later, the Chat team began downsizing. Doubao currently boasts over 200 million daily active users (DAU), with dialogue remaining its largest user entry point. However, in recent months, ByteDance has clearly shifted more manpower to office tools, enterprise services, and commercialization.

Beating AI News Brief: Reuters, citing insiders, reports that both DeepSeek and Moonshot AI have been invited to address the UN Security Council on AI and international security. DeepSeek is expected to deliver its briefing to the council this week, with founder Liang Wenfeng not planning to attend. Moonshot AI has also received an invitation but has yet to confirm participation. The meeting will discuss risks posed by AI to international security. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman plans to attend and speak, while Anthropic is also expected to send a senior representative. This marks the UN Security Council’s first formal discussion on AI risks in 2023. Back then, China warned AI should not become an "unbridled wild horse", while the U.S. cautioned against using AI to censor or suppress people. The current meeting comes as discussions between China and the U.S. on AI security heat up. Multiple U.S.-based AI companies have recently called for coordinated slowdowns in the development of frontier AI, while Chinese state media has criticized such proposals, arguing they could be used to limit China’s participation in global AI competition.