$3 billion, one signature — the largest university gift in American history

Hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin is giving Carnegie Mellon $3 billion — the biggest single donation any US university has ever received. Two billion builds a new 35-acre Miami campus tackling "grand challenge areas" like human health, climate resilience, and advanced manufacturing; the rest supercharges computer science in Pittsburgh. "AI represents one of the defining intellectual developments of our time," said president Farnam Jahanian, "and it demands that we rethink how we educate."