Carnegie Mellon University and Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel and founder of Griffin Catalyst, announced a historic $3 billion gift to elevate Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh and launch Carnegie Mellon University Miami.

“Carnegie Mellon University will be redefining higher education, yet again.” Carnegie Mellon’s innovation engine has made a profound impact across the nation and globe. @SenMcCormickPA believes that the future is bright for Carnegie Mellon, in Pittsburgh and in Miami. #CMUMiami#

Carnegie Mellon's robotics expertise will be on global display next week as thousands of researchers and industry leaders convene in Pittsburgh for #IROS2026#! See you there! 🤖 🤝

Carnegie Mellon is integral to a regional research effort to make industrial energy systems more resilient. The Resilient Energy Technology and Infrastructure (RETI) Consortium is a new National Science Foundation Regional Innovation Engine to strengthen manufacturing and economic competitiveness across Appalachia.

Carnegie Endowment's @SamWinterLevy reveals why the same data center can be worth 20% less in the UK than in America simply because it takes longer to turn on: "The key factor is time to power. The quicker you can get a data center up and running, that just swamps every other factor. That swamps energy costs, tariffs, tax incentives of the kind that many US states are offering. The speed at which you can get this data center up and running is by far and away the most important factor." "UAE and some US states have been able to get data centers up and running pretty quickly. UK, Germany, Australia very slow. Just a lot of obstacles to connecting data centers to the grid, and that just destroys the value." "A data center in the UK, the lifetime value is probably about 20% lower than a data center in the US, just because it takes so long to get it up and running." "If you're a country negotiating with these labs, if you can go to them and say, we can get a data center up and running in under 24 months, that's super valuable to those labs right now, and that gives you quite a lot of leverage to ask for concessions in exchange around access guarantees or tax revenue for local communities." @CarnegieEndow

Carnegie Endowment's @SamWinterLevy explains the inversion between the US and China in the AI race: America needs power, China needs chips "Right now, China produces 2.5x as much power as the US. Power is not the constraint for them. The constraint is just access to chips, in part because of US export controls, in part because of the difficulties of building out a domestic supply chain. Power is not gonna be the bottleneck for them." "The underlying source of power is obviously an issue. That's part of the appeal of partnering closely with the UAE and Saudi Arabia. They have a lot of access to energy, and that's a natural calling card when they're pitching US companies. Fast time to power because they don't have to worry about NIMBYism or permitting issues." "The UAE actually tops our ranking of countries in terms of how quickly they could build a data center before the war. Obviously, the war raises big questions about that. But access to underlying power is definitely an issue that helps some countries move faster than others." @CarnegieEndow

Per @CarnegieEndow analysis, China is winning the global AI talent race. Compared to 2022, the share of Chinese-origin AI talent increased 11 percentage points to 57% in 2025, while the U.S. share fell to 13%. China’s postgrad share is 41% vs. the U.S.’ 34%.