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OpenAI is awarding grants and API credits to 14 independent projects to develop and test policy ideas aimed at ensuring AI's benefits are broadly shared across economies and societies.

Anthropic announces grants of up to $50,000 in Claude usage credits for researchers working on rare diseases under its AI for Science program.

An analysis of the challenges in funding open-source software, evaluating approaches like donations, open-core models, and grants, with a focus on sustaining projects like Inko without compromise.

Google Play is distributing $1 million USD to support 10 indie studios in Sub-Saharan Africa through the Indie Games Fund, offering $50K–$200K grants plus mentorship.

Sentient Foundation launched a $42M open-source AGI funding program with two tracks: grants with no equity and investments for commercial open-source AI products, focusing on technical quality and ecosystem value.

NLnet announces grants for 67 new open-source projects under the Next Generation Internet initiative, covering areas such as privacy-preserving payments, hosting stacks, open hardware, browsers, and more.

Sam Altman highlights the OpenAI Foundation's $130M+ in grants for AI resilience, covering bio-resilience, cyber-resilience, model safety, and impacts on young people.

AI community ambassador program offers 6-month grants and credits to rising researchers and builders.

Canada awarded a single AI startup $240M in grants, exceeding 66% of the total funding received by 107 companies over 7 years, highlighting significant concentration of government AI investment.

OpenAI announced the 'Trusted Access for Cyber' program, granting $10 million in API credits and providing access to the GPT-5.4-Cyber model for vetted organizations, including major financial institutions, security vendors, and government bodies, to accelerate defensive cybersecurity capabilities.

OpenAI highlights grantees from its Cybersecurity Grant Program, supporting projects ranging from defending LLMs against prompt-injection attacks to autonomous cyber defense agents and secure AI inference infrastructure.

OpenAI announces Superalignment Fast Grants to fund research on aligning superintelligent AI systems, addressing the fundamental challenge of how humans can steer and trust AI systems more capable than themselves. The initiative seeks to rally top researchers to tackle this critical technical problem, which OpenAI believes superintelligence could pose within the next decade.

OpenAI launches a $1M cybersecurity grant program offering funding and API credits in $10,000 increments to support practical AI applications in defensive cybersecurity tools and methods, with priority given to projects with clear public distribution plans.