How a new wave of science philanthropists can have the greatest impact Tech entrepreneurs are bringing an engineer’s eye to research funding. They must be open about their findings to reap maximum benefit.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03326-2 Some of the richest people in history are using charitable donations to explore fresh approaches to funding scientific research. Their ranks could soon grow: in the next year or so, initial public offerings by some of the biggest artificial-intelligence companies, OpenAI and Anthropic, both in San Francisco, California, could see the companies valued at more than US$1 trillion apiece, making hundreds of their employees millionaires in the process.