Former Google DeepMind researchers Rishub Jain and Josh Jacob launched Sampura Research, a London-based nonprofit, on August 25 to develop better AI evaluation systems, with $11M in initial funding fr…
Damon Binder, Senior Researcher at Coefficient Giving, argues in an August 11, 2026 essay that artificial general intelligence (AGI) will trigger an industrial explosion, with physical output potentia…
A new Heatmap poll shows 75% of Americans would oppose a data center built near their home, a 33-point swing in one year, as data centers become a symbol for anxieties about AI's societal impact. The …
Initial public offerings for OpenAI and Anthropic could unlock an estimated $430 billion in charity pledges, rivaling the philanthropic gifts of the Gilded Age, according to The Economist. Anthropic a…
Manifund launched a demo impact market at impact-exchange.org that retroactively values early donations to AI safety organizations, showing a 2022 $343,000 Long-Term Future Fund donation to MATS now w…
Manifund is raising money for its 2026 AI safety regranting program, citing early successes including a $143k grant in August 2023 that helped launch Timaeus, which later merged with Resolution and ea…
Several major news organizations, including Bloomberg, Time, NBC News, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times, host reporter fellows paid by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism, which pays fellows b…
Qualys, Inc., Rubrik, and Zscaler have joined the CSAI Foundation as Vanguard members, alongside Coefficient Giving, to advance AI security, safety, and governance. The Cloud Security Alliance announc…
A small but growing number of former management consultants are leaving the industry to work on AI safety, governance, and policy, according to interviews with career trackers and former consultants. …
Deena Mousa, a program officer at Coefficient Giving, argues in a guest article that curing all diseases in our lifetime requires not only AI superintelligence but also ingenious government policy to …
A new digest of AI safety funders reveals that Open Philanthropy remains the largest donor in the space, with grantmaking sourced primarily through its own research rather than open applications. The …
The AI boom has created a new donor class of young, analytical, newly wealthy workers eager to give to causes they deem worthy, bypassing traditional philanthropy. After a podcast campaign raised near…
Coefficient Giving (cG) announced a $1 billion gift to GiveWell on July 23, increasing a previous $175 million commitment for 2026, which roughly equals GiveWell's expected total grantmaking this year…
Two Coefficient Givings of the same size would be better than one twice as big, argues a Substack post, citing the risk of over-concentration in effective altruism funding. The post notes that Coeffic…
Anthropic and OpenAI employees are fielding up to 20 cold emails per week from charities and wealth managers, a practice that damages fundraising chances and has harmful side effects, according to an …
Rethink Priorities' Global Health and Development team published a Substack post arguing that global health interventions deserve a place in donors' giving portfolios due to their robust empirical evi…
A couple planning to donate at least half their assets over their lifetime favors GiveWell and animal welfare over AI safety, despite having a comparative advantage in AI safety giving that could be 1…
A former Google employee's LinkedIn post offering career guidance to laid-off tech workers resulted in 27 inbound calls within 24 hours, revealing that many talented professionals outside the AI safet…
The Frontier Biodefense Fellowship launches to address growing global catastrophic biological risk from engineered pandemics, which the initiative argues is primarily driven by AI-enabled non-state ac…