MassAITC AI pilot awards for aging and dementia care

The Massachusetts AI and Technology Center (MassAITC) has opened its 2027 cycle call for pilot research projects on AI and technology for older adults and people with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Non-clinical trial projects run 12-24 months with a maximum of $200,000 in direct costs; clinical trial pilots run 12-24 months with up to $300,000 in direct costs. Letters of intent are due November 16, 2026; invitations to full application go out December 15, 2026, and full applications are due January 22, 2027.

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Omidyar Network Tech Journalism Fund: $5,000 to $25,000 for US reporting projects on AI and tech

Omidyar Network's Tech Journalism Fund provides project funding from $5,000 to $25,000 to cover reporting costs for a single time- and resource-intensive reporting project, with priority for pitches on AI and tech regulation, investigations into the companies and people shaping AI, AI's impact on children and families, and AI in the workplace. Open only to US-based journalists (freelancers, staff reporters, editors and teams); applications are rolling and generally reviewed within 30 days.

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Coefficient Giving awards ML4Good $7.4M for global AI safety field-building

Coefficient Giving has awarded ML4Good $7.4M to invest in global AI safety field-building over the next three years. ML4Good plans to run 20 bootcamps in 2027, expand to new regions, and add programmes for legal professionals, founders, fieldbuilders and people interested in AIxBio.

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Devpost Build With AI: Basics

Build a working proof-of-concept using AI coding best practices and reusable skills in your coding agent. Open to ages 18+ in all countries and territories, excluding standard exceptions. Apply by Oct 26, 2026 at 5:00pm EDT.

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UQ PhD scholarship in reasoning for diffusion large language models

The University of Queensland is offering a funded PhD project on advancing the reasoning ability of diffusion large language models, supervised by Dr Ruihong Qiu in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The research project scholarship includes a living stipend of A$39,220 a year tax free (2026 rate) and covers tuition fees. Submit a PhD expression of interest by 27 October 2026, quoting scholarship code DIFFUSION-QIU.

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LNCC fellowships in scientific AI and HPC: PCI/CNPq stipends up to R$6,760 a month

Brazil's National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) has opened a second call for PCI/CNPq research fellowships with its IPES group in Petrópolis, on numerical methods, scientific AI and HPC. Monthly stipends are R$6,760 (PCI-DA), R$5,408 (PCI-DB), R$4,394 (PCI-DC) or R$3,718 (PCI-DD). Selection is by CV review and interview. Email a CV, a one-page statement of interest and your areas of interest to valentin@lncc.br by 31 October 2026.

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Physical AI Growth Lab: equity-free accelerator with up to €350K in Azure credits

UnternehmerTUM, Microsoft, NVIDIA and Infineon are running the Physical AI Growth Lab, an equity-free accelerator for startups in physical AI, offering up to €350K in Microsoft Azure credits, plus NVIDIA Inception program credits and hardware discounts, and hands-on training. The program runs from January to April 2027, and the application deadline is November 13, 2026.

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K-12 AI Infrastructure Program RFP: $1M for open tools for AI formative assessment, up to $600K per award

The K-12 AI Infrastructure Program is funding work on an openly licensed package of tools, workflows and documentation that helps developers integrate education-specific digital public goods into AI-enabled formative assessment products. Open to any U.S.-based applicant, including edtech companies, for-profits, nonprofits and academic institutions. Proposals are due November 20, 2026, 11:59 p.m. AoE; an applicant webinar is on Monday, Oct. 26, at 4 p.m. ET.

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Arena Academic Partnerships Program — Fall 2026 Call (AI Evaluation Research)

Arena funds research on the scientific foundations of AI evaluation (evaluation and ranking methodology, measurement and validity, learning from human preference, safety and alignment), with up to $50,000 per project and possible Arena dataset access. The call is for tenure-track faculty at U.S.-based universities, with submissions due October 30, 2026. Apply through the proposal form linked on the page.

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Simons Diffusion Generative Modeling Research Fellowship Fall 2027

The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley invites applications for postdoctoral-level Research Fellowships in its Fall 2027 research program on Diffusion Generative Modeling. Fellowships are intended for young scientists within at most five years post-PhD at the start of the 2027-28 academic year. Applications opened October 1, 2026 and are due December 1, 2026.

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Princeton CITP Fellows Program 2027-2028

Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) has opened applications for its 2027-28 Fellows Program, a competitive, fully-funded, in-person program, with three tracks: Postdoctoral Research Associate, Visiting Research Scholar/Visiting Professional, and Microsoft Visiting Research Scholar/Visiting Professor. The deadline for full consideration is December 7, 2026, 11:59 p.m. EST.

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RobotX PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowships 2027

RobotX, the center for robotics at ETH Zurich, is accepting applications for its PhD Fellowship 2027 and for postdoctoral researcher positions. PhD applicants apply once and choose up to three RobotX professors, who review the application. The PhD is a fully funded doctoral position at ETH Zurich at the ETH doctoral salary rate. Applications are open until November 27, 2026, through ETH online portals only; final decisions by February 15.

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KU Leuven AI Safety Lab Visiting Fellowships 2027

The KU Leuven AI Safety Lab invites applications for five visiting fellowships: three months in residence in Leuven (first cohort March to May 2027) on a self-directed AI safety research project in one of the Lab's programmes (Theories of Victory and Viable Endgames; Democratic Control over AI Companies; or Other). Open to PhD candidates, postdocs, faculty and researchers outside academia. Fellows receive a monthly allowance of EUR 2,000. Deadline: 31 October 2026.

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DatologyAI Research Fellowship

DatologyAI's Datology Labs Fellows Program is a paid, full-time, in-person six-month fellowship in San Mateo or NYC starting in January, with DatologyAI providing funding, compute and mentorship for data research for foundation models. Applicants send a short research proposal; applications are evaluated on a rolling basis and close November 15.

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AI Research Groups Lower Saxony

zukunft.niedersachsen, with the Volkswagen Foundation, invites applications for AI research groups in computer science, artificial intelligence, application disciplines. Eligible: scientists with at least two years of postdoctoral research experience. Please submit your application via the funding portal.

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UK AI Biosecurity Lab

The UK government (Cabinet Office, 24 October 2026) is establishing the AI Biosecurity Lab, backed by GBP 100 million of government funding and up to GBP 200 million in company commitments from OpenAI and Anthropic (model and compute credits, trusted model access and technical support). It is a new national organisation, not an open call for applications.

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SPRIND Engineering Microbial Consortia challenge 2026

SPRIND's Engineering Microbial Consortia challenge is funded by Germany's environment ministry (BMUKN) and runs up to 38 months across three stages, offering fixed-price contracts of up to EUR 4,300,000 per team across all three stages: up to EUR 1,200,000 in Stage 1 (14 months), EUR 1,300,000 in Stage 2 (12 months) and EUR 1,800,000 in Stage 3 (12 months), plus fully funded shared services not charged against team caps. The application period runs until November 16, 2026, at 11:00 (CET).

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Mozilla Human-Scale AI Incubator 2027 cohort

Mozilla Foundation's Human-Scale AI Incubator offers seven projects up to $500,000 each over three years, for small, purpose-built AI sized for the problem it solves. Mozilla funds and teams keep ownership. The cohort is seeded with three anchor projects. Applications are open; the deadline is Friday, November 20, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (UTC-8).

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Center for Civic Futures awards $11M to 11 AI safety-net projects (PBIF round 2)

Center for Civic Futures announced $11 million for 11 new AI projects in the second round of its Public Benefit Innovation Fund, covering SNAP, Medicaid, unemployment insurance and more. Award announcement, not an open call.

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Bias Bounty Mapping Equity Challenge 2026

Zindi's Bias Bounty Mapping Equity Challenge, with Humane Intelligence and Radiant Earth and support from the Heising-Simons Foundation, has $10,000 in prizes: $4,500, $2,500 and $1,500 for the top three, $1,000 for Best Bias Discovery and $500 for Best Documentation. Participants estimate coverage gaps in Overture Maps across U.S. Census tracts in four climate-risk regions. Closes 31 Oct 2026.

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