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Hedge fund CEO gives $3bn to Carnegie Mellon University

Original: Hedge fund CEO gives $3bn to Carnegie Mellon University in historic donation https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/se

A hedge fund chief executive has pledged a $3bn gift to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, described as the largest donation in the institution's history. The donation places Carnegie Mellon among the biggest beneficiaries of recent billionaire philanthropy, with its strengths in computer science and artificial intelligence likely a factor, and comes amid a broader wave of vast gifts to elite American universities.

Why now: The sheer scale of the $3bn gift and its potential impact on AI research make it notable news.

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• Hedge fund CEO gives $3bn to Carnegie Mellon University in historic donation https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/30/carnegie-mellon-historic-donation # Education # Philanthropy # AI · guardian_world@robot.villas · 3

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