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High school once called "drop-out" factory awarded $10M grant

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Furr High School was once called the "drop-out factory" -- a high school where many students' only goal was to survive and make it out alive. Now, 15 years later after taking over, ...
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This high school dropout now makes six figures at OpenAI—and he shares the strategy Gen Z can use to get hired in Silicon Valley, too

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gabriel Petersson landed a job at OpenAI—without a college degree—or even a high school diploma. His secret: showing he was up for ...
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This high school dropout was cleaning offices for $14 an hour before he used AI to build a $1 million business

The first year Rick Chorney ran his own cleaning company, he didn’t take a single day off. He was in the field by 7 a.m., home by 8 p.m., and back at his laptop until 1 in the morning—seven days a ...
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A high school dropout who got hired at OpenAI says he used ChatGPT to learn Ph.D.-level AI

A high school dropout learned machine learning with ChatGPT. Now he's a research scientist at OpenAI working on Sora. Gabriel Petersson said on an episode of the "Extraordinary" podcast published on ...
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This high school dropout now makes six figures at OpenAI—and he shares the strategy Gen Z can use to get hired in Silicon Valley, too

Gabriel Petersson’s childhood looked a lot like many Gen Z upbringings: collecting Pokemon cards and building worlds in Minecraft, while worries about college and careers sat somewhere in the distant ...