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• Arlan Rakhmetzhanov dropped out of high school in Kazakhstan to attend Y Combinator.
• He just raised $6.2 million for his AI coding agents startup, Nozomio.
• The 18-year-old says he sees distinct advantages to being a young founder.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with 18-year-old Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, the founder of AI coding agents startup Nozomio, who just completed Y

• The Defense Innovation Unit will postpone its yearlong internship program until the spring of 2026.
• Incoming interns were contacted in mid-September about the program, with some due to start at the end of the month.
• The DIU didn't elaborate on the reason for the postponement, but referenced "emergent priorities."

The Pentagon's startup arm, the

• Karishma Mandal moved from Chicago to San Francisco, hoping to land a Big Tech job.
• She interviewed at Uber, Meta, and Amazon — and landed a product manager role at Salesforce.
• Mandal shared her top job search strategies for making connections and landing interviews.

Karishma Mandal wanted to be at the center of the tech world — working in AI at a big-name company in San

AI is revolutionizing how we build software, and at lightning speed. Plenty of software engineers are moving toward a new normal where they essentially ask AI tools to code for them, then step in to fix errors and double-check work, for example. But thanks to vibe coding, it’s actually pretty easy to get started with software development, both with consumer-grade AI tools like ChatGPT and with

AI is rapidly changing our world, and that's especially true in the office. From the advent of new AI services like ChatGPT, to the integration of large language models into consumer products like iOS, Android, Windows, and Google Workspace. But AI isn’t just a way to search for information. If you know how to leverage generative AI, it can be a huge productivity booster. As a business leader

AI agents are all the rage right now. Google announced its “agentic era” for Google Gemini back in spring 2025, while Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and the other big players in the AI space have each announced their own AI agents. As with any new technology, it’s possible to use these new tools for productivity at work. In fact, that’s why they were designed. 

So, what is an AI agent? The short

With a title like Bone Lake, two possibilities come to mind: The first is that this horror thriller might be set on a lake with a dark past, full of human remains, bones included. The second is that "Bone Lake" is a place to bone — sexually — making it exactly the kind of place where a crazed killer might stalk for prey. And hey, my dude, congrats to you for being right on both counts. 

As any

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As AI tools get more sophisticated, more people are viewing AI as not only a “question and answer” type of tool, but also as a full-blown collaborator. This can have plenty of benefits, such as helping you refine your work or giving you some cool ideas to get started. With the right approach, you can do the same. 

Most of this takes place in the AI chatbot space. You can talk to ChatGPT, Google