Apr 23, 2025
Earlier this month, Palantir launched a new internship for graduating high school students — a direct challenge to what it called “the shortcomings of university admissions.”
Dubbed the “Meritocracy Fellowship,” the four-month program is meant to compete with higher ed for top talent. Applicants need a 33+ ACT score, and selections will be made “based solely on merit and academic excellence,” according to the company. Some will ultimately get full-time offers.
it's the largest ai research grant to date from coefficient giving, the outcomes-oriented funder launched largely with the wealth of facebook cofounder dustin moskovitz
as anthropic looks out for claude's 'wellbeing,' a new google deepmind paper warns of a coming fight over 'ai welfare'
following nonsense regulations and an army of meddlesome karens, I traveled to micron's delayed $100 billion campus to find out: are we really going to "reindustrialize"?