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The internet made it possible to know anything. AI makes it possible to do anything. That changes what it means to be educated. And it demands a new kind of institution. Announcing The Horowitz Andreessen Academy. In partnership with Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Palantir, Replit, Stripe, and more. Incubated by a16z. San Francisco. Fall 2027.

Ep6 with #MaiKaneko, International Development Lead at #DCP, a prominent figure in Japan's #digitalcurrency & #financial landscape. We covered #tokenization #tokenizeddeposits #thefutureoffinance #shortswithShelly #innovation #techeducation #Japan

Every company says they have Forward-Deployed Engineers now. ElevenLabs CEO and former Palantir Deployment Strategist @mati gives one of the best explanations of what an FDE is—and says companies are missing the key piece of what actually makes FDEs valuable: “In our case, FDEs are part of the product team. They are not part of the go-to-market team. They are deeply embedded in understanding what the roadmap of the product is.” “You want all the FDEs to actually solve the customer problem and stretch your product in that direction. But the second thing you want them to do is bring any of that knowledge back to the product, so the product becomes better for the next generation of companies building on top of it. I feel like the second part is frequently missed.” “The beauty of that is—everybody benefits because you work with one customer, learn, and you bring that into the product experience. Both of those customers benefited from having their product optimized for better work.” “The domain expertise they have is still theirs. They can win based on their domain expertise. But the product experience of how you build based on that domain expertise can be abstracted, and can be reusable.”

Field Station / Rajasthan is open for applications. One week. A regenerative living project in Rajasthan. Scientists, engineers, cryptographers, and developers building the parallel with @Logos_network and @ZuGramadotorg. Apply here: logos.co/field-station/

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Excited to share what we've been working on for a while in stealth with our new neobank mobile experience built on Ethena's existing product set. This is one of the few product categories that have emerged in the last couple of years that I think has a genuine chance of breaking out of the crypto native user set to hundreds of millions of people. While some of the existing neobanking products today are impressive, and I personally use a few of them daily, we think the addressable market here is the hundreds of millions of users not already operating onchain which haven't been served yet. Rebuilding the mobile banking product experience on stablecoin and blockchain rails simply produces a better product experience for users with near instant and zero cost transfers and settlements, higher savings rates leveraging DeFi financial primitives and importantly these products can be global by default almost immediately. Ethena sits in a unique position as the first scaled dollar issuer vertically integrated with the consumer application experience. If you don't own the yield engine and stablecoin issuance, you are at a structural disadvantage from a revenue perspective to provide the most competitive offering across the entire product suite. For Ethena, being able to build the direction relationship with end users for our existing savings products, rather than just via exchange and fintech integrations, let's us control the destiny of our distribution channels in a better way than we have to date. We think the neobanking app form factor is the best way to achieve this. 90% of financial services for most normal people is just send, save and spend. We hope Ethena Pay will be the best place for you to do this.

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RSI aka fully self training AI is the vision for @Zai_org GLM 6 (OK, it was clarified that CURRENTLY while the latest GLM models are used to train the next generation, there are still plenty of engineers involved making decisions!) “On the evening of August 31, Zhipu held its 2026 interim results briefing. At the meeting, Zhipu founder Tang Jie explained the technical positioning and research direction of the company’s next-generation GLM-6.0 model. He defined GLM-6.0 as “Full Self-Training,” or fully autonomous self-training, a concept also referred to internationally as RSI, or recursive self-improvement. Its defining feature is the model’s ability to “self-purify,” covering the entire process from pre-training and mid-training through post-training, thereby enabling fully autonomous training and self-evolution. Tang said the greatest challenge of the full self-training paradigm is not simply increasing model scale, but whether the model can exercise independent judgment: determining on its own when to stop training and correcting its own errors. He described this as the central difficulty of the technical approach and a major focus of future model development. Tang added that future model research would also incorporate considerations relating to ethics and social governance, making them an important part of the technology’s next stage of development.”

Ten days after launch, @entropyIO's Pre-IPO perp is already the most liquid instrument for Anthropic exposure, with top-of-book spreads consistent at 0.51 bps. The market has done nearly $90M of volume, pricing Anthropic at a $1.95T valuation.