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Against Malaria Foundation
Coefficient Giving
Evidence Action
GiveWell
Lead Exposure Elimination Project (LEEP)
Longview Philanthropy
METR
Principles of Intelligence (formerly known as PIBBS)
Rethink Priorities
The organization updates are in alphabetical order.
On The 80,000 Hours Podcast:
There’s also a 2025 highlights episode with one top bit from every interview during the year.
Seantience is a short documentary released by Animal Ethics that brings together voices in science and philosophy to present evidence on the sentience of aquatic animals, including invertebrates.
Animal Ethics has announced three campaigns for 2026:
In late December, it published a report in Portuguese on sentience in decapod crustaceans.
Throughout January, Aditya S. Karanam is delivering a series of talks on wild animal suffering across Delhi University colleges and at the Animal Liberation Conference India 2026.
Anima International is continuing to hold companies accountable for cage-free commitments. In France, it is mobilizing supporters to document and report supermarkets still selling cage eggs despite the 2025 phase-out deadline. French caterer Restalliance announced that it’s now 100% cage free — a change affecting approximately 27,000 hens per year.
The European Commission published the results of its animal welfare public consultation, which received 236,520 submissions. Most responses came from people mobilized by animal advocacy groups coordinated by Eurogroup for Animals; Anima International contributed over 33,000.
The team behind the Abundance and Growth Fund launched a blog sharing research, commentary, and reading updates.
Coefficient Giving announced $175 million in funding to GiveWells recommendations for 2026 and shared a list of giving opportunities suggested by programme staff, continuing an annual tradition.
Lewis Bollard, who leads farm animal welfare work, wrote about ten wins in 2025 for farmed animals, while 13 staff members shared how they are donating this year, and why.
Evidence Action published its 2025 Year-in-Review. Despite a challenging year for global health, the organization reached more than 200 million people through programmes that make water safe to drink, improve children’s health and nutrition, and prevent mother-to-child transmission of syphilis. It also says it has laid the groundwork for what is expected to be its largest ever wave of new programme launches over the coming year.
Faunalytics released a study, Globalizing The Factory Farm: International Organizations and the Spread of Industrial Animal Agriculture, examining how international organizations — including development banks, UN agencies, and major NGOs — may be contributing to the expansion of industrial animal agriculture in low- and middle-income countries.
It also released a video recap of its 2025 work.
In the latest GiveWell podcast episode, CEO Elie Hassenfeld and Principal Researcher Alex Cohen discuss efforts to gather local insights from people who live and work in the countries where GiveWell funds programmes.
It published a report on its 2025 experiment using AI to “red team” its research — asking AI models to critique the work and identify weaknesses.
In the final podcast episode of 2025, Hassenfeld and Director of Research Teryn Maddox reflected on GiveWell's response to foreign aid funding cuts, discussing lessons learned and preparation for 2026.
In December, Giving Green helped launch World Climate Relay, a global fundraiser to support the Giving Green Fund and Sport One, Carbon Zero, an athlete-led climate fund informed by research.
On Giving Tuesday, it hosted a webinar on findings from its report on clean energy in the US and was featured in The Washington Post, Vox, and Heatmap's Shift Key.
METR published its GPT-5 evaluation results. It reports that OpenAI provided access to full reasoning traces for some model completions, as well as a requested list of background information, which led to a more confident risk assessment.
In December, eight companies reported on their cage-free commitments, covering 7 million hens in their supply chains. Based on these companies’ reported progress, THL estimates its campaigns spared 100,000 hens from suffering. It also secured a new global cage-free commitment from Pret A Manger.
THL published a 2025 Year in Review summarizing its work over the year.
Executive summary: This post compiles January 2026 updates from Effective Altruism–aligned organizations, highlighting time-sensitive job opportunities, upcoming EA events, and recent organizational activities across global health, animal welfare, AI, and climate work.
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