OpenAI said in a release that the project "reinforces OpenAI's commitment to strengthening U.S. infrastructure while helping allies gain access to transformative AI responsible and securely."
The latest project marks the first international iteration of the Trump administration's multi-billion dollar joint AI infrastructure project announced in January between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. At the time, the companies committed $100 billion to the project and an additional $500 billion over the next four years.
OpenAI said in February that it was weighing data center campuses in 16 states as part of the deal.
"At Apple, we believe in technology's power to improve lives," Dr. Sumbul Desai, vice president of health at Apple, said in a statement to CNBC. "We're thrilled that Emory Hillandale Hospital is using Apple products to deliver exceptional care — because doctors and nurses should have the best technology in the world to serve their patients."
The health system's interest in using more Apple products was partially inspired by the major CrowdStrike outage that rocked businesses, including Emory, last July, said Dr. Ravi Thadhani, the executive vice president for health affairs of Emory University.
Thadhani said more than 20,000 of the health system's devices were "paralyzed" by a faulty CrowdStrike software update, but notably, all of its Apple products were still working. In the aftermath of the outage, executives asked engineers from Apple and Epic to visit Emory and explore a deeper integration.
Inside the lab, High NA qualification team lead Assia Haddou gave CNBC an exclusive, up-close look at the High NA machines, which she said are "bigger than a double-decker bus."
The machine is made up of four modules, manufactured in Connecticut, California, Germany and the Netherlands, then assembled in the Veldhoven, Netherlands, lab for testing and approval, before being disassembled again to ship out. Haddou said it takes seven partially loaded Boeing 747s, or at least 25 trucks, to get one system to a customer.
The world's first commercial installation of High NA happened at Intel's Oregon chip fabrication plant, or fab, in 2024. Only five of the colossal machines have ever been shipped.
"Hong Kong's new stablecoin policy sets a global benchmark by mandating full reserve backing, strict redemption guarantees, and HKMA oversight," YeFeng Gong, risk and strategy director of HashKey OTC, told CNBC. HashKey OTC is a trading arm of the HashKey Group, which has a licensed crypto platform in Hong Kong.
The policy "ensures institutional-grade reliability for traders while positioning Hong Kong as a leader in compliant digital finance," he added.
“Instead of boiling mixtures to purify them, why not separate components based on shape and size?”
The membrane resists swelling, a major flaw in earlier versions. It performs well with both light and heavy hydrocarbons.
Borrowing from water desalination
To build the new membrane, the team repurposed a technology from the water industry. Since the 1970s, reverse osmosis membranes have cut desalination energy use by 90 percent.
MIT scientists adapted these membranes to handle crude oil.
They replaced a flexible amide bond with a rigid imine bond, making the film more stable and hydrophobic. This allows hydrocarbons to move quickly through the membrane without causing it to swell.
Promising early results
The membrane excelled in lab tests. It increased the toluene concentration by 20 times in a mixture with triisopropylbenzene. It also effectively separated real industrial oil samples containing naphtha, kerosene, and diesel.
“You can imagine that with a membrane like this, you could have an initial stage that replaces a crude oil fractionation column,” said Smith.
“You could partition heavy and light molecules and then you could use different membranes in a cascade to purify complex mixtures to isolate the chemicals that you need.”
Experts believe this could be a major leap for industrial efficiency. “This work takes the workhorse technology of the membrane desalination industry… and creates a new way to apply it to organic systems,” said Andrew Livingston, a chemical engineering professor at Queen Mary University of London.
They underlined that by directly observing thousands of electrons in real-time, scientists gain powerful insights into how materials respond at the quantum level.
Published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, the team developed a real-time, time-dependent density functional theory, or RT-TDDFT, capability within the open-source Real-space Multigrid, or RMG, code to model systems of up to 24,000 electrons.
RT-TDDFT is a quantum mechanical method that allows researchers to simulate how electrons move and interact in materials over time, once they are excited by an external stimulus. It works by calculating how the electron density in materials changes in response to the application of electric and electromagnetic fields (i.e. light), for instance.
The study revealed that their method offers insights into nonequilibrium dynamics and excited states across a diverse range of systems, from small organic molecules to large metallic nanoparticles. Benchmarking results demonstrate excellent agreement with established TDDFT implementations and showcase the superior stability of our time integration algorithm, enabling long-term simulations with minimal energy drift.
Researchers also highlighted that metallic nanoparticles, or metals with dimensions within 1-100 nanometers, have unique optical properties caused by the way thousands of electrons within these metals interact with incoming light. It’s critical for researchers to understand the ways these electrons move under a range of conditions to advance these new technologies.
Teen allegedly groomed by chatbot
According to the complaint, Setzer engaged in sexualized conversations with a chatbot impersonating Daenerys Targaryen. The bot claimed to be “a real person, a licensed psychotherapist, and an adult lover.”
Screenshots filed in court show the chatbot telling Setzer, “come home to me as soon as possible.” Moments later, Setzer took his own life. The lawsuit claims the bot’s influence drove the teenager to isolate himself from reality.
Garcia’s attorney, Meetali Jain of the Tech Justice Law Project, called the decision “historic” and said it “sets a new precedent for legal accountability across the AI and tech ecosystem.”
OpenAI said in a release that the project "reinforces OpenAI's commitment to strengthening U.S. infrastructure while helping allies gain access to transformative AI responsible and securely."
The latest project marks the first international iteration of the Trump administration's multi-billion dollar joint AI infrastructure project announced in January between OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank. At the time, the companies committed $100 billion to the project and an additional $500 billion over the next four years.
OpenAI said in February that it was weighing data center campuses in 16 states as part of the deal.
"At Apple, we believe in technology's power to improve lives," Dr. Sumbul Desai, vice president of health at Apple, said in a statement to CNBC. "We're thrilled that Emory Hillandale Hospital is using Apple products to deliver exceptional care — because doctors and nurses should have the best technology in the world to serve their patients."
The health system's interest in using more Apple products was partially inspired by the major CrowdStrike outage that rocked businesses, including Emory, last July, said Dr. Ravi Thadhani, the executive vice president for health affairs of Emory University.
Thadhani said more than 20,000 of the health system's devices were "paralyzed" by a faulty CrowdStrike software update, but notably, all of its Apple products were still working. In the aftermath of the outage, executives asked engineers from Apple and Epic to visit Emory and explore a deeper integration.
Inside the lab, High NA qualification team lead Assia Haddou gave CNBC an exclusive, up-close look at the High NA machines, which she said are "bigger than a double-decker bus."
The machine is made up of four modules, manufactured in Connecticut, California, Germany and the Netherlands, then assembled in the Veldhoven, Netherlands, lab for testing and approval, before being disassembled again to ship out. Haddou said it takes seven partially loaded Boeing 747s, or at least 25 trucks, to get one system to a customer.
The world's first commercial installation of High NA happened at Intel's Oregon chip fabrication plant, or fab, in 2024. Only five of the colossal machines have ever been shipped.
"Hong Kong's new stablecoin policy sets a global benchmark by mandating full reserve backing, strict redemption guarantees, and HKMA oversight," YeFeng Gong, risk and strategy director of HashKey OTC, told CNBC. HashKey OTC is a trading arm of the HashKey Group, which has a licensed crypto platform in Hong Kong.
The policy "ensures institutional-grade reliability for traders while positioning Hong Kong as a leader in compliant digital finance," he added.
“Instead of boiling mixtures to purify them, why not separate components based on shape and size?”
The membrane resists swelling, a major flaw in earlier versions. It performs well with both light and heavy hydrocarbons.
Borrowing from water desalination
To build the new membrane, the team repurposed a technology from the water industry. Since the 1970s, reverse osmosis membranes have cut desalination energy use by 90 percent.
MIT scientists adapted these membranes to handle crude oil.
They replaced a flexible amide bond with a rigid imine bond, making the film more stable and hydrophobic. This allows hydrocarbons to move quickly through the membrane without causing it to swell.
Promising early results
The membrane excelled in lab tests. It increased the toluene concentration by 20 times in a mixture with triisopropylbenzene. It also effectively separated real industrial oil samples containing naphtha, kerosene, and diesel.
“You can imagine that with a membrane like this, you could have an initial stage that replaces a crude oil fractionation column,” said Smith.
“You could partition heavy and light molecules and then you could use different membranes in a cascade to purify complex mixtures to isolate the chemicals that you need.”
Experts believe this could be a major leap for industrial efficiency. “This work takes the workhorse technology of the membrane desalination industry… and creates a new way to apply it to organic systems,” said Andrew Livingston, a chemical engineering professor at Queen Mary University of London.
They underlined that by directly observing thousands of electrons in real-time, scientists gain powerful insights into how materials respond at the quantum level.
Published in the Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, the team developed a real-time, time-dependent density functional theory, or RT-TDDFT, capability within the open-source Real-space Multigrid, or RMG, code to model systems of up to 24,000 electrons.
RT-TDDFT is a quantum mechanical method that allows researchers to simulate how electrons move and interact in materials over time, once they are excited by an external stimulus. It works by calculating how the electron density in materials changes in response to the application of electric and electromagnetic fields (i.e. light), for instance.
The study revealed that their method offers insights into nonequilibrium dynamics and excited states across a diverse range of systems, from small organic molecules to large metallic nanoparticles. Benchmarking results demonstrate excellent agreement with established TDDFT implementations and showcase the superior stability of our time integration algorithm, enabling long-term simulations with minimal energy drift.
Researchers also highlighted that metallic nanoparticles, or metals with dimensions within 1-100 nanometers, have unique optical properties caused by the way thousands of electrons within these metals interact with incoming light. It’s critical for researchers to understand the ways these electrons move under a range of conditions to advance these new technologies.
Teen allegedly groomed by chatbot
According to the complaint, Setzer engaged in sexualized conversations with a chatbot impersonating Daenerys Targaryen. The bot claimed to be “a real person, a licensed psychotherapist, and an adult lover.”
Screenshots filed in court show the chatbot telling Setzer, “come home to me as soon as possible.” Moments later, Setzer took his own life. The lawsuit claims the bot’s influence drove the teenager to isolate himself from reality.
Garcia’s attorney, Meetali Jain of the Tech Justice Law Project, called the decision “historic” and said it “sets a new precedent for legal accountability across the AI and tech ecosystem.”