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You’ve probably seen the story by now. A school in Kentucky sent students home with a bound agenda that included absurd errors clearly made by AI. The periodic table was nonsense. The map of the U.S. lists the state of Illinois as “Vitoiis,” and Kentucky is listed as “Venecky.” There’s an extra planet called Marc,…

One Gen Z high school dropout with two tech businesses to his name has just become Europe’s youngest self-made billionaire following a breakout investing round—before even turning 30. James Dacombe, the 25-year-old serial entrepreneur behind AI chipmaker Olix and brain monitoring startup CoMind, just hit a personal net worth of over $1 billion. 

On a Friday morning in early March, about 100 students at Washington Leadership Academy (WLA), a public charter secondary high school in the District of Columbia, gathered in the assembly hall for a “Hackathon,” a hands-on event designed to teach students how generative artificial intelligence (AI) can be used in real life. The Hackathon gave…