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A philanthropic organization known as Coefficient Giving, which is mainly funded by liberal billionaire Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna, is being knocked for quietly funding a slate of «radical projects» and donating millions to defund the police groups, anti-ICE initiatives and other progressive causes over the course of several years.
Before changing its name from Open Philanthropy to Coefficient Giving and divesting from its «criminal justice reform» initiatives to a split-off group called «Just Impact,» Open Philanthropy awarded hundreds of grants to primarily far-left groups in that category over six years.
Among the groups that Open Philanthropy donated to were JustLeadershipUSA, a group that compares the criminal justice system to slavery, Color of Change, a staunch defund the police advocate, People’s Action, which has claimed law enforcement was waging a «war against Black people,» and Fair and Just Prosecution, an advocate for eliminating cash bail.
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Coefficient Giving is being knocked for funding a slate of «radical projects» by donating millions to defund the police groups, anti-ICE initiatives and other progressive causes over the course of several years. (Getty)
The group also made donations to the Free Migration Project, which has called for the abolition of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the National Bail Fund Network, a coalition of groups that helped bail participants of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. After Minnesota activist Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent earlier this year, Free Migration Project posted on their Instagram that «ICE and Border Patrol cannot be reformed. They must be abolished.»
Remarking on the donations, Curtis Schube, director of research and policy at the Center to Advance Security in America, slammed Open Philanthropy, saying the group «quietly funds all kinds of radical projects, including those that eliminate bail demands for criminals and that seek to defund the police.»
«These aims are the opposite of social welfare,» said Schube. «They make society less safe and harm the very communities they claim to be concerned about.»
The group that Open Philanthropy awarded the highest amount of money to was the Alliance for Safety and Justice, a progressive organization that advocates for replacing incarceration with community-led safety strategies and trauma recovery services. The group received a total of $11,750,000.00 from Open Philanthropy through just three donations between 2016 and 2018.
Open Philanthropy gave $4,440,000.00 to JustLeadershipUSA, whose president, DeAnna Hoskins, previously emphasized the need to defund the police, framing it as a «divestment from law and order to an investment in protection in thriving communities.»
A spokesperson for Coefficient Giving clarified that the group’s donations «supported a variety of projects designed to improve public safety, reduce government spending, and keep families together.» The spokesperson said the group ceased these types of donations in 2021.
The group’s website states that the criminal legal system is «part of a much larger system of oppression that disproportionately plagues Black, Brown, and poor communities.» Further, JustLeadershipUSA’s website states that the carceral system «is in fact a dumping ground for the country’s other failed systems» and «contains strong remnants of slavery.»
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A rally to defund police in Chicago, July 24, 2020. (E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
The website states the group is committed to «disrupting» the carceral system that it says, «like slavery, is based on the subjugation of those under its control.»
Open Philanthropy gave $3,259,100 to Color of Change and its affiliated entities. In 2021, a Color of Change campaign director advocated for «no more police and no more mass incarceration,» and pressed New York City to cut $1 billion from the police. The group has advocated to «defund the police,» also supporting diverting police funds in Minneapolis. In 2021, the Color of Change also released a statement urging Facebook to «permanently ban» President Donald Trump from the platform and to «take action against his enablers.»
People’s Action, meanwhile, received $1,927,640 from Open Philanthropy. In 2020, People’s Action declared its endorsement of the Movement for Black Lives, a self-proclaimed «anti-capitalist» group. In its statement announcing the endorsement, People’s Action called for «an end to the war against Black people» and demanded schools, colleges, universities and «all public institutions cut ties with the police.»
The group wrote that «police do not keep us safe, and incremental reforms cannot change a pervasive culture of police violence against Black people.»
In Jan. 2026, the People’s Action sent out a press release urging «immediate action to defund ICE & border patrol and get ICE & border patrol out of Minnesota, Maine, and communities across the country.»
Open Philanthropy donated $3 million to Fair And Just Prosecution, a criminal justice reform group that in 2018 co-developed a training model geared towards the offices of newly elected prosecutors that is said was «committed to a justice system that moves away from past incarceration-driven practices and towards principles of equity, fairness, and compassion.»
The group has praised state legislation ending cash bail. In 2021, the group lauded an Illinois bill ending cash bail as a «necessary and long overdue» change.
A spokesperson for Fair and Just Prosecution told Fox News Digital that the group «supports a peer-driven community of local elected prosecutors working toward a justice system that prioritizes public safety grounded in fairness, equity, fiscal responsibility, and humanity.»
Open Philanthropy also seeded the National Bail Fund Network with a $404,800 grant. The network went on to raise millions after the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported in 2023 that some of the defendants helped by bail funds from the group went on to commit violent crimes.
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Open Philanthropy donated $24,000 to the Free Migration Project, a group whose executive director, David Bennion, has previously stated that «ICE should not only be abolished, but its core function of imprisoning and deporting non-citizens must also be eliminated.»
Bennion has argued that deportation is «not just cruel and economically counterproductive,» but also claimed it is «inconsistent with basic justice and has no place in a legal system predicated on coherent moral principles.»
Though the $130 million donated by Open Philanthropy for criminal justice reform was primarily awarded to progressive groups, the amount includes several donations to conservative groups as well, including the American Conservative Union, which received a total of $612,000.00.
In 2021, Open Philanthropy divested its criminal justice reform program into a split-off group called Just Impact. Open Philanthropy gave Just Impact a seed funding of $50 million spread over three and a half years.
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A spokesperson for Coefficient Giving told Fox News Digital that «until late 2021, Open Philanthropy supported a variety of projects designed to improve public safety, reduce government spending, and keep families together, including funding the American Conservative Union, host of CPAC, to run its Center for Criminal Justice Reform, headed by Pat Nolan.»
The spokesperson said that «among the reforms enacted while Open Philanthropy was funding this work was 2018’s First Step Act, first introduced by then-Congressman and current Secretary of Veterans Affairs Doug Collins, passed with bipartisan support, and signed into law by President Trump.»
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Modi recibió a Lula, Macron y líderes tecnológicos en India para una cumbre mundial sobre inteligencia artificial
El primer ministro de India, Narendra Modi, y destacados líderes del sector tecnológico, entre ellos Sam Altman (OpenAI), debatieron este jueves en Nueva Delhi sobre los desafíos y oportunidades de la inteligencia artificial (IA) en el marco de una cumbre mundial.
El evento contará además con la participación del presidente de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, así como una veintena de jefes de Estado. Se prevé que, a finales de la semana, se firme una declaración orientada a regular el uso de la IA. Entre los empresarios presentes de la industria figura también Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind).
“La IA tiene que democratizarse para que los humanos no se conviertan simplemente en un punto de datos para la IA o sigan siendo una materia prima para la IA. Debemos democratizar la IA. Debe convertirse en un medio de inclusión y empoderamiento, especialmente para el Sur Global”, sostuvo el jefe de Gobierno indio en su presentación.
El evento se desarrolla en un contexto marcado por el impacto bursátil de las empresas tecnológicas y el avance acelerado de la IA. La expansión de esta tecnología genera inquietudes acerca de su impacto en el medioambiente, el empleo, la educación, la creatividad y la información.
El mercado laboral es uno de los principales focos de preocupación, especialmente en India, donde millones trabajan en centros de atención telefónica y servicios técnicos. “Creamos sistemas capaces de imitar a los humanos. Y, por supuesto, la aplicación natural de este tipo de sistemas es sustituir a los humanos”, sostuvo el investigador Stuart Russell.
Con mil millones de internautas, India es el primer país en desarrollo en organizar una cumbre de este tipo, la cuarta dedicada a la IA. El ministro indio de Tecnologías de la Información, Ashwini Vaishnaw, anunció que el país aspira a atraer USD 200.000 millones en inversiones tecnológicas en dos años, incluidos 90.000 millones ya comprometidos para la construcción de centros de datos por parte de empresas como Google y Microsoft.
Sundar Pichai, director general de Alphabet y oriundo de India, destacó la transformación del país y anunció la construcción de cables submarinos para potenciar la capacidad en inteligencia artificial.
Este proyecto se enmarca en una inversión de USD 15.000 millones en cinco años anunciada en octubre por Google, que incluye la apertura de su mayor centro de datos fuera de Estados Unidos en Visakhapatnam.
Nvidia, líder global en semiconductores para inteligencia artificial, presentó una alianza con la empresa india L&T para crear “la mayor fábrica de IA de India”. En 2023, India ocupó el tercer lugar en la clasificación mundial de competitividad en IA elaborada por la Universidad de Stanford.
El secretario general de la ONU, Antonio Guterres, instó a los principales empresarios del sector a respaldar la creación de un fondo global de USD 3.000 millones para garantizar que la inteligencia artificial sea accesible para todos.
Durante la cumbre, el titular de Naciones Unidas advirtió a los líderes del sector sobre los riesgos asociados a esta tecnología y subrayó que su futuro no debe quedar “al capricho de unos pocos multimillonarios”.
“El futuro de la IA no puede ser decidido por un puñado de países ni dejarse en manos de los caprichos de unos pocos multimillonarios”, añadió.
Macron remarcó la importancia de colocar un trazado de normas al avance de la IA: “Estamos decididos a seguir dando forma a las reglas del juego… con nuestros aliados como la India”. “Europa no se centra ciegamente en la regulación: Europa es un espacio para la innovación y la inversión, pero es un espacio seguro”, sostuvo.
En particular, el presidente galo remarcó que Francia está “duplicando el número de científicos e ingenieros de IA capacitados”, y que nuevas empresas en el sector están creando “docenas de miles” de empleos.
En su presentación, Demis Hassabis, CEO de Google Deep Mind, expresó el miércoles que bajo su mirada “en los próximos 10 años probablemente entraremos en una nueva era dorada para el descubrimiento científico, casi un nuevo renacimiento utilizando estas herramientas, herramientas increíbles como AlphaFold».
Y señaló: “Espero que sea la primera de muchas que puedan acelerar enormemente nuestra investigación y acelerar el descubrimiento científico en casi cualquier área temática”.
Hassabis utilizó su espacio en la cumbre para remarcar que el mundo está “a punto de una transformación absolutamente increíble que traerá beneficios en la ciencia y la medicina específicamente”.
Por otra parte, el asesor de IA de la Casa Blanca, Sriram Krishnan, mencionó que Estados Unidos recibirá una inversión mínima de USD 600.000 millones en hiperescaladores el próximo año. “Esto impulsará el entrenamiento de IA, los centros de datos y la computación. Creemos que todos nuestros aliados, e India es un aliado clave, deberían aprovechar esta infraestructura y desarrollarla”, sumó.
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DHS shutdown leaves local emergency responders on their own amid extreme weather, expert warns
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EXCLUSIVE: The partial government shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security could have a critical impact on local disaster response without assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, a public safety expert warned.
In an interview with Fox News Digital, Jeffrey Halstead, the director of strategic accounts at Genasys, a communications hardware and software provider to help communities during disasters, said the DHS shutdown could impact emergency response and recovery efforts now that FEMA support has been restricted.
«Every time that the government enters into one of these shutdowns, there’s a distinctive part of the federal government that is impacted, both reviewing the grant program or distributing funds from pre-awarded grant programs. This is exactly the area of DHS as well as FEMA that affects emergency managers, emergency response and recovering different cities, counties, and regions should they face a weather and/or disaster-related event,» Halstead said.
Halstead, also a retired chief of police in Fort Worth, Texas, with more than 30 years in law enforcement, explained that government shutdowns delaying federal funds «drastically impacts» the local response to disasters.
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The Trump administration ordered FEMA to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to disaster-torn areas across the country during the DHS shutdown. (Al Drago/Getty Images)
«I know personally, I was in Arizona for over 21 years, in Texas as chief of police for over seven, and then I was in Nevada for a long time, and I worked directly with a few states in the Western United States,» he said.
«The last government shutdown pretty much ended their grant application process, meaning the grants would not be approved, not even be assigned and/or funds not released,» he continued. «This drastically impacts their ability to plan and to coordinate a lot of their planned response events. In Arizona, the central UASI region or the Urban Area Security Initiative, they have none of their grants being reviewed, which replaces outdated equipment, vehicles and funds training so that every quarter they can meet the standards and then be ready should something happen.»
This comes as the Trump administration ordered FEMA to suspend the deployment of hundreds of aid workers to disaster-torn areas across the country during the DHS shutdown.
More than 300 FEMA disaster responders were preparing for upcoming assignments, but were told to halt their travel plans. Grant systems are also not fully operational until lawmakers can reach a deal to fund the department.
«The biggest impact is funding, the grants being distributed and then getting all that equipment and training aligned so that they can actually have a very successful year getting ready for a disaster,» Halstead said.
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More than 300 FEMA disaster responders were preparing for upcoming assignments, but were told to halt their travel plans. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)
«Should there be a traumatic weather event, critical incident or something that would require FEMA support, FEMA staff or FEMA resources, those may not be available,» he added. «This drastically impacts the city, county, state and federal collaboration efforts that literally are immediately engaged, aligned and resources deployed, sometimes within 12 hours. So this greatly inhibits their ability to plan effectively should a critical event, disaster event, or weather-related event come their way. They won’t have all these federal assets and resources that they have come to depend on, rely on, and work with in both their planning as well as training events or previous disasters where they responded and provided support.»
As part of the move to end FEMA deployments, staffers currently working on major recovery efforts will remain on the sites and cannot return home unless their assignment ends, but no new personnel can join or relieve them without DHS approval.
Recovery efforts are still ongoing in places like North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene devastated the region in the fall of 2024.
As Halstead noted, the recovery effort is the «final piece for the emergency management cycle to get back to normalcy for that region.»
«When that is dramatically impacted, you still see some areas of North Carolina a couple of years later still struggling in the recovery phase being completed,» he said. «That is directly related to all of these stalls and delays in FEMA, FEMA funding and the financial support needed to get the recovery phase completed.»
PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DRAGS ON AS DHS FUNDING TALKS STALL
FEMA staffers working on major recovery efforts will remain on the sites and cannot return home unless their assignment ends, but no new personnel can join or relieve them without DHS approval. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Asked about the importance of federal funding given recent extreme weather across the U.S. such as snow on the East Coast, flooding in California and fire disasters in the High Plains that forced evacuations, Halstead said it is «extremely critical» and that the delay in funds can impact the safety of local residents.
«It’s absolutely extremely critical for emergency managers, your fire departments as well as law enforcement, to utilize not just these partnerships and the resources, but the funding allocations so that they can plan effectively in responding, operational control of the disaster, and then getting into that recovery mode … Then sometimes that delay, it’s going to impact the safety and the welfare of Americans,» Halstead explained.
Republicans and Democrats in Congress have yet to reach a deal to end the partial shutdown, in large part due to Democrats’ demand for stricter oversight and reforms of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following the fatal shootings last month of two U.S. citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis, which the GOP has thus far resisted.
President Donald Trump argued earlier this week that it is a «Democrat shutdown» and «has nothing to do with Republicans.»
Halstead said he would like lawmakers on Capitol Hill to negotiate in good faith to end the shutdown so that first responders will have «effective means to do our jobs safely and very, very efficiently.»
Recovery efforts are still ongoing in places like North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene devastated the region in the fall of 2024. (Travis Long/The News & Observer/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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«I know a lot of people are really upset because they leverage a significant political issue over a common funding agreement that should have been approved very quickly,» he said. «This has happened a lot in the last two to three years. We’ve seen shutdown after shutdown after shutdown. What a lot of citizens don’t realize is that when the government is shut down, all of this work — grant reviews, proposals, funding, disbursements — those are all delayed. Then there is a significant lag time getting back to an open government.»
«They’re still negotiating all these extremely politically sensitive topics that are really divisive within not just Capitol Hill, but really our country,» Halstead added. «Then all of that backlog is now taking even longer to get approved, funded and funds being dispersed. So it’s a compounding effect on all of our emergency managers and our first responders to do their jobs effectively.»
Halstead highlighted that a deal to reach the shutdown is unlikely before Trump’s State of the Union address next week, in which the president affirmed he would give the speech regardless, and that the ongoing delays in FEMA funding could last weeks.
«It may be another two weeks at least until we can get this funded and get it back open,» Halstead said. «But then we still have these significant backlogs. It will take a significant amount of time.»
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