{
  "id": 17331,
  "title": "The Dartmouth Workshop: The $7,500 investment that gave birth to AI (2/2)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/01/the-dartmouth-workshop-the-7-500-investment-that-gave-birth-to-ai-2-2",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-01T09:52:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "France 24",
    "slug": "france-24",
    "url": "https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20260801-the-dartmouth-workshop-the-7-500-investment-that-gave-birth-to-ai-2-2"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Some 70 years before the current frenzy of record-breaking fundraising by modern AI giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic, the Rockefeller Foundation made what may have been the first investment in the history of AI. With a $7,500 grant from the foundation in 1956, four eminent mathematicians organised the Dartmouth Workshop, where the term “artificial intelligence” was first coined.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}