Anthropic said on Sunday that it would set aside large portions of its wealth to support initiatives it believes are in the public interest. In a blog post, the AI colossus said it aims to establish a separate LLC that would use Anthropic shares to make donations to nonprofits or “direct distributions to specific populations.”
The social sector is in severe distress. Nonprofits serving communities across the US have faced an existential crisis since January 2025, when the Trump administration and its allies in Congress began a series of actions targeting the sector. Nonprofits have been reeling from these actions, even as demand for their services has increased as a
Beth Barnes, one of the AI industry’s most influential watchdogs, said in July she was struggling to hire talented researchers to monitor AI’s risks. That has begun to change. Researcher Joe Benton announced this week that he had left Anthropic for Barnes’ nonprofit METR, writing that he worries about “extinction-level risks” from the tech. The
Nonprofit production venture Waterwell, co-founded by “Succession” player Arian Moayed, and nonprofit Nimruz has doubled the funding for their program of Unseen Iran Grants now in its second cycle. Funding for the grant program has grown to $100,000 to supporting 10 artists representing the Iranian diaspora with TV, film, theater and creative projects in other
A farmer in rural India takes a photograph of a dying plant. He wants to research it on the Internet but he doesn’t speak English. She shouldn’t have to do it. That’s the kind of problem a nonprofit called Current AI is trying to solve by building an open, public AI infrastructure. In February at
