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Morning Edition · Thursday, October 8, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
White House gathers more than $1 billion in private pledges from AMD, OpenAI and Anthropic for its Genesis Mission science program
The administration says total commitments across the mission exceed $5 billion as it relies on industry compute to replace federal science funding it has cut.
According to Axios, the White House is announcing more than $1 billion in industry commitments for the Genesis Mission, its program to use AI to speed up federal science. AMD, OpenAI and Anthropic are among the companies making pledges. Pre…
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