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Nvidia partners with data center developer Cloverleaf

Nvidia continues to pour money into data center development — just as AI data centers bring lots of money into Nvidia.

Nvidia showed that the harness, not the AI model, is now the real hero

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn't that great at the task.

The Healthcare Company That Built the AI Tool It Couldn’t Buy

Off-the-shelf AI couldn’t meet Headway’s security and workflow needs, so it built its own on the Claude Code SDK. Now the whole company uses it.

Apollo, a major player in GPU-backed loans, hacked.

You may recall Apollo is majorly involved in AI infrastructure financing; it even is one of the “compute is an asset class” consortium. Sounds like the hackers stole a bunch of the usual things, like employees’ social security numbers. If they stole interesting things, like internal data on the AI deals Apollo has been making, that wasn’t disclosed in the breach notification. If you know anything about the hack, hit me up on Signal: lopatto.46.

Pope Leo warns AI could become a new form of 'economic colonialism'

Pope Leo encouraged lawmakers to support their constituents with human-first AI policies during a speech on Friday.

Membership into Miami’s most exclusive club is something money can’t buy—and Jeff Bezos is among those standing outside, looking in

Jeff Bezos has spent hundreds of millions of dollars buying his way into one of Miami’s most exclusive neighborhoods. But even the founder of Amazon, which sits atop the Fortune 500, has yet to squeeze his way into the private club at the center of it.

Phoebe Gates took a secret Stanford class on how to ‘rule the world’—and reportedly recruited employees for her startup accused of wire fraud

Long before Phoebe Gates cofounded the AI personal shopping assistant Phia, she was a student at Stanford University working towards a bachelor’s degree in human biology. While her transcript reflects coursework in epidemiology and health policy analysis, Gates attended one secret winter-quarter class that reportedly helped her establish Phia.

Where Bumble's ex-CEO is going next and other female exec moves to know

Happy Friday, MPW Daily readers. We’re headed into the final days of summer—usually a slow news time, but you all are still making moves. Here are the latest career moves to have on your radar. See you on Monday!

MAHA activists urge Trump against promoting coal to power energy-hungry AI data centers

NEW YORK — Nearly 200 activists in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement are criticizing President Donald Trump’s promotion of coal to fuel the rise of artificial intelligence data centers , according to a letter sent Friday.

ChatGPT has entered the group chat. Texters have…feelings about it.

OpenAI launched a plug-in that lets ChatGPT draft and send text messages on a Mac. The feature drew immediate backlash.

'Take time in quiet': Melinda French Gates says to spend at least 10 minutes a day on self-care

Melinda French Gates first realized the importance of self-care in early motherhood. In between carpools, when her three kids were napping, and early in the morning, she recognized that she needed time to herself—to allow herself to breathe.

Scott Bessent is 'playing with fire' as the Treasury's debt buyback risks putting the dollar in a devaluation spiral like the yen, economist warns

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent appears to be heading down a path similar to Japan’s, and it signals “debasement” of the dollar, according to a top economist.