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Nvidia Allegedly Engineered Scarcity by Funding AI Startups to Buy Its GPUs

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Hacker News · EN

Lightcone Commons' funders (and SFF and CG) are mostly NOT funding things that will prevent our extinction

Lightcone Commons have completed their first granting round . And the things their granters and recommenders have funded mostly do not meet the current moment (the same is true for SFF’s most recent round , and Coefficient Giving ). Let’s hope that their upcoming future rounds do better, or other funders step in. All of our lives are on the line. (Apologies if this is blunt, but this is important..) I get that money allocators (grantmakers and VCs alike) typically invest in people over ideas. But this is taking that to the extreme. Yudkowsky and Soares’ funding recommendations don’t fit with t

LessWrong · EN

Q&A: From seed funding to scientific breakthroughs

How the MIT Global Seed Funds helped Professor Matt Shoulders and his team build international collaborations that continue to shape his research more than a decade later.

MIT News · EN

"It's about giving more great games a chance" – Why Launchable thinks it can help more independent studios reach the market with its shared success model

A new platform called Launchable aims to connect studios with development talent and publishing services using a "shared-success framework". In other words, developers provide their services on the understanding that they will receive a revenue share later on, once the game launches. Read more

GamesIndustry.biz · EN

After the Midterms, the Real Work for Arts and Culture Begins

Democratic leaders need to understand that cultural funding cannot stop at large museums and institutions; it must reach the people whose labor makes it possible.

Hyperallergic · EN

PhD funding mechanisms should protect the right to disagree with supervisors

Nature, Published online: 10 November 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03645-4 PhD funding mechanisms should protect the right to disagree with supervisors

Nature News · EN

MIT-led team receives funding to develop next-generation alternatives to modern weed killers

With up to $53 million from ARPA-H, the researchers will use AI to generate safer herbicides that reduce dependence on imports and improve the security of the U.S. food supply.

MIT News · EN

Investment firm Denmu closes oversubscribed debut fund, surpassing $50 million target

Earlier this year, Denmu launched its debut fund with a $50 million target . The firm has now closed the oversubscribed fund, surpassing its initial goal. Read more

GamesIndustry.biz · EN

Organizations I'd recommend for funding

I was a grant evaluator for Lightcone Commons last round. Funders disbursed about $45mil through the program, and this included funding roughly my first $6.8 million worth of recommendations. There are other projects I would've preferred to fund over what I did fund, but nobody was doing them and so they weren't on offer. Here's a series of projects that I'd fund in the next round, in rough order of priority. The next round is starting now, and is scheduled to end mid-December. I expect rounds to continue at similar speed. I expect similar amounts of funding will route through me in future rou

LessWrong · EN

NASA’s Ignition Sequence Has Begun

NASA recently announced some changes that appear aligned with Ignition initiatives. Here are few of them.

Eos · EN