Gates Foundation Puts $1 Billion Behind the Idea That AI Should Be an Equalizer
The promise arrived in the annual Goalkeepers report, released on the evening of September 14. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said it would commit $1 billion over the next…
OpenAI’s Nonprofit Arm Writes Its First Check: $40 Million for Cancer Vaccine Data
The first recipient of the money was a cancer center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. On September 15, the OpenAI Foundation, the nonprofit that sits atop the company’s structure, announced…
OpenAI Backs a House Bill That Would Put Inspectors Inside Its Models
Chris Lehane, OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer, stood before reporters on September 15 and said something the company had never said before. OpenAI, he announced, supports the key provisions of…
OpenAI Paid More Than $300 Million for an iPhone Portrait-Mode Startup
The company sits in Los Altos, a quiet patch of California, and for most of its life it has worked on a single, unglamorous problem: how to make phone cameras…
Salesforce and Nvidia Build a Model That Knows CRM but Never Saw Customer Data
At Dreamforce on September 15, Salesforce unveiled Koa, a model built for one narrow job: reasoning over the data that lives in a company’s customer-relationship system. The model runs on…
Trump Calls AI Doom Warnings a Con on a Call With Jensen Huang
The phone rang mid-interview. Jensen Huang, the chief executive of Nvidia, was onstage at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles on September 14 when President Donald Trump called in. What…
AI Stocks Fall for a Second Day as the 10-Year Yield Tops 5 Percent
On the morning of September 15, the 10-year Treasury yield touched 5 percent for the first time since 2007. Within hours, the move had found its target: the artificial-intelligence trade…
Justice Department Examines Nvidia’s Groq Deal
The U.S. Justice Department’s antitrust division has opened an investigation into Nvidia’s licensing agreement with the AI chip company Groq, examining whether the deal’s structure was designed to avoid a…
Apple Ships iOS 27 While Its EU Fight Drags On
Apple began rolling out iOS 27 in waves by time zone on September 14, and developers digging through the release found something notable beneath the surface. The code suggests Siri’s…
Data Centers Need 45 Gigawatts of New Power, Moody’s Says
The American data center boom will require roughly 45 gigawatts of new generating capacity by 2030, an investment of about $110 billion, Moody’s Ratings estimated in a report published September…
