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Anthropic and Gates Foundation commit $200M to beneficial AI programs
Anthropic announced a four-year, $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation spanning Claude usage credits, technical support, and grant funding. The work targets global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility, including public health datasets, healthcare AI benchmarks, disease-modeling support, AI tools for neglected diseases, K-12 tutoring, and agricultural productivity applications.
OpenAI brings Codex to the ChatGPT mobile app
OpenAI rolled out Codex in preview on iOS and Android so users can follow active coding threads, review diffs and terminal output, approve actions, and redirect long-running agent work from a phone. The update also makes Remote SSH generally available, adds generally available Codex hooks, introduces programmatic access tokens for Business and Enterprise workspaces, and supports eligible HIPAA-compliant local Codex deployments.
Khosla backs Synthetic with $10M for autonomous AI bookkeeping
Synthetic, founded by former Bench Accounting CEO Ian Crosby, raised a $10 million seed round led by Khosla Ventures to pursue a fully autonomous AI bookkeeper for accrual-based financials. The startup plans to focus on AI and software companies first, while acknowledging that current foundation models still make bookkeeping mistakes and the product remains in the design phase.
Melvin Vivas
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