According to OpenAI on X, the company launched the OpenAI Safety Fellowship to fund independent research on AI safety and alignment and develop next‑generation talent. As reported by OpenAI’s announcement on April 6, 2026, the program invites researchers to pursue alignment, scalable oversight, and evaluation agendas with institutional support and mentorship, creating pathways for practical safeguards and policy-relevant evidence for frontier models. According to OpenAI, the fellowship targets independent scholars and emerging researchers, signaling new grant and mentorship opportunities that could accelerate safety evaluations, red teaming, and interpretability research with direct application to model governance and enterprise risk controls.

According to @sundarpichai, Google published his full remarks from the AI Impact Summit 2026 outlining priorities on safety, scaling frontier models, and real-world deployments. According to Google Blog, Pichai emphasized advancing responsible AI with verifiable safety evaluations, collaborative governance, and open standards to enable adoption across sectors like health, finance, and public services. As reported by the Google Company Blog post, he highlighted investments in model robustness, secure infrastructure, and red-teaming as prerequisites for deploying multimodal and agentic systems at scale. According to Google’s post, he also underscored opportunities for developers and enterprises through upgraded tooling, enterprise-grade compliance, and partnerships aimed at accelerating productivity and economic growth while managing systemic risks.