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Emergent Ventures is a fellowship and grant program funded by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, led by economist Tyler Cowen. The program provides rapid grants to entrepreneurs, researchers, and students with ambitious ideas for improving society, including AI safety, AI innovation, and technology-driven solutions. The program values speed and unconventional thinking, with decisions typically made within weeks.
AI-related proposals are a major funding priority, including work on AI alignment, AI governance, AI applications for social good, and novel AI research. The program has funded hundreds of fellows across multiple countries and operates on a rolling basis with no fixed deadlines.
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Emergent Ventures Fellowship for AI Innovation and Entrepreneurship accepts applications on a rolling basis — there is no single fixed deadline. Check the official notice for any cycle-specific review dates.
Emergent Ventures Fellowship for AI Innovation and Entrepreneurship is funded by Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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The MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC) is a presidential initiative that funds interdisciplinary research applying generative AI to improve human work, creativity, and wellbeing. Through recurring seed grant rounds, it supports MIT faculty and research teams across four funding tiers (up to $50K, $150K, $300K, plus member company-directed projects), anticipating up to 60 funded projects per round. Work spans foundation models, LLMs, and multimodal generative AI applications, supported by industry member companies including OpenAI, Analog Devices, Coca-Cola, InterSystems, SK Telecom, Tata, and TWG Global.
The MIT Generative AI Impact Consortium (MGAIC) funds seed research across MIT advancing generative AI, foundation models, and their societal implications. The consortium anticipates funding up to 60 projects across four classes: Exploratory projects up to $50,000, Innovation projects up to $150,000, Flagship projects up to $300,000, and company-directed projects sponsored by member companies. The 2026 call had a Notice of Intent deadline in March 2026 and a proposal deadline of April 6, 2026, with the program recurring in future cycles.
OMB's proposed rewrite of 2 CFR Part 200 would convert the Uniform Guidance from guidance into binding, force-of-law regulation — adding discretionary termination authority, mandatory political-appointee review before award, DEI and foreign-collaboration prohibitions, and the elimination of fixed-amount awards. The comment period closed with 496,769 submissions, roughly 95% opposed. The targeted effective date is October 1, 2026. This is a full breakdown of what changes, who is exposed, and the concrete moves nonprofits and universities should make in the next 75 days.
Read articleJohns Hopkins is committing $60 million a year to a new Research Resilience Fund for faculty hit by federal grant terminations and delays — and it is not alone. As termination-for-convenience authority expands under the 2026 OMB rules, institutional bridge funding is becoming a structural feature of the research economy. Here is what these funds actually cover, why they are not a substitute for federal money, and how researchers should think about diversifying before the call comes.
Read articleNSF 26-503, the CyberAICorps Scholarship for Service (CyberAI SFS), pays $27,000–$37,000 annual stipends plus full tuition for students who commit to government service in AI and cybersecurity, with institutional awards up to $2.5 million. The Scholarship Track closes July 21, 2026. Here's why placement infrastructure — not coursework — decides which universities win.
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