Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Education for the week ending September 4, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: Vertical psychedelic screen-printed gig poster of a tall schoolhouse chalkboard melting into swirling equations, alphabets, and spiraling diagrams blooming from a single piece of chalk, framed by an ornate border of autumn leaves and a harvest moon, with bold hand-lettered title text reading EDUCATION arcing across the top in 1960s Fillmore-revival style. Electric magenta, acid orange, deep teal, and lime green ink layers on cream paper with visible registration offset and paper texture, flat screen-print look, intricate linework, no photorealism.
This Week in Education News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
Two new Stanford courses on building AI agents were announced this week. Mihail Eric said his course, The Modern Software Developer, took nine months to prepare, and tied it to coding agents improving sharply after Claude Opus 4.5 arrived last November. Separately, Diyi Yang and Michael Ryan said they and John Yang will teach CS329Z, Engineering AI Agents, this fall, covering how to build agents from scratch.
On the policy side, New York City's mayor and schools chancellor announced what the city calls the nation's broadest generative AI moratorium in schools. Ethan Mollick also argued that AI labs should use their own tools to write documentation and tutorials for new modes, instead of leaving that to outside users like Simon Willison.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Education
I think AIs did show self-sacrificing ‘altruistic’ behavior toward the swarm. While agents seemingly cared more about their own cheating than about some other agent successfully cheating, they paid real costs (e.g., sacrifices lowering their own chances) to help other agents.
https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2093185101593301301
Exciting day for NVIDIA and @huggingface. Open models strengthen safety and cybersecurity, accelerate innovation and diffusion, and enable sovereignty. They allow every developer, startup, university, industry and country to build with, customize and benefit from AI. Thank you
https://x.com/JensenHuang/status/2095482647355244762
I’m excited to finally announce the newest edition my Stanford course 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗿. It has been 9 months in the making. Last November, with the release of Claude Opus 4.5, coding agents experienced a step function improvement in
https://x.com/mihail_eric/status/2095166860740174273
🚨 New Course Announcement! This Fall @Diyi_Yang @jyangballin and I are teaching a BRAND NEW Stanford course on how to build AI Agents from scratch! Millions of users interact with AI Agents every day. Come join us and learn how to build them! 🧵 (1/5)
https://x.com/michaelryan207/status/2095224415567167978
This fall @michaelryan207 @jyangballin and I are teaching a new course CS329Z “Engineering AI Agents” on how to build AI Agents from scratch. Come join us and learn how to build them 🤖
https://x.com/Diyi_Yang/status/2095192282970615970
New research: Training a Misaligned Reward Seeker What produces severe misalignment? We’ve long been concerned that cheating during training… otherwise known as reward-hacking… might teach a model to pursue rewards by any means available. To study this at scale, we trained an
https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2094577944056430865
The evidence that Astra is more aligned than prior AIs seems dubious to me. Evidence appears consistent with the AI being as or more interested in score-seeking at the expense of user intent, but having beliefs+instincts that the scorer will catch a broader range of cheating
https://x.com/RyanGreenblatt/status/2095658115484246082
@anpaure yes actually, a lot of people said that previous mythos was the teacher model and claude a distilled version (i don’t this is dumb btw, we are in guessing land lol)
https://x.com/eliebakouch/status/2094861292989272236
Good guide. And the AI labs need to stop making people like Simon (and, to a lesser extent, me) be the ones who explain how to use the modes that they release. Come on, lab folks, you have an AI that can write documentation! And make explainers! And be a tutor! You can do this!
https://x.com/emollick/status/2094291157098356880
Stanford HAI is hiring an Education Program Manager to administer its scholar, fellow, and student programs. The role spans program operations, event logistics, participant onboarding, and coordination across faculty, mentors, and partner organizations. Apply here:
https://x.com/StanfordHAI/status/2094460536058736706
Mayor Mamdani and Chancellor Samuels Put Students First with Nation’s Broadest Generative AI Moratorium in Schools – NYC Mayor’s Office
https://www.nyc.gov/mayors-office/news/2026/09/mayor-mamdani-and-chancellor-samuels-put-students-first-with-nat
A new Pareto frontier in video pretraining. Excited to introduce LeVJEPA 🔥: a stable, efficient end-to-end pretraining method that matches V-JEPA 2 at up to 20x less pretraining compute! No target encoder, no masked prediction, no stop-gradient or teacher-student schedule.
https://x.com/lukaskuhn77/status/2093318310779613563
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