#098 - $20k for Poverty Interventions, AGI Safety Course, & Advances in Green Hydrogen!
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News
📓 The California Journalism Preservation Act was just introduced with bipartisan support. It would charge a “journalism usage fee” to large platforms that make news content available on their sites.
📱 The CBP One app is the primary portal for seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border, and even after a recent overhaul it’s causing frustration.
🚀 New research outlines the possibility for AI to rebuild the middle class by decreasing inequality.
Opportunities
BetaNYC is a public interest technology organization based in NYC, and they’re looking for a summer Civic Innovation Lab Associate as a frontend developer!
The D-Prize offers up to $20k in funding to new ventures that scale proven poverty interventions. Their regular submission deadline is June 4th!
The AGI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment Course provides a high-level understanding of the AI alignment problem and some of the key research directions which aim to solve it. It’s a 7 week course, and you can apply anytime to join their next cohort!
Company Spotlight
🧪 Ecolectro’s new green hydrogen technology reduces hydrogen stack costs by 78%, enabling scalable, cheap, clean green hydrogen! Check out their website or read an in depth profile here!
Quotes We Love
"The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us." — Henry David Thoreau