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OpenAI Foundation Pledges $1B in 2026 Grants: Jobs, Health, AI Safety Focus with New Leadership Team
OpenAI Foundation announced it will grant out $1 billion in 2026 for life science research, job displacement mitigation, children's mental health, and AI safety — including biological threat protection. New leadership: Anna Makanju (AI for civil society), Robert Kaiden (CFO, ex-Deloitte/Twitter), Jeff Arnold (director of operations, ex-Oracle/Dropbox), and co-founder Wojciech Zaremba as head of AI resilience. This follows the October 2025 commitment of $25B without a timeframe, now with a concrete 2026 spending plan. The foundation targets economic impacts of AI on jobs as a primary concern.
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