Good morning, creators.
Seven days. That is how long you have to apply to EAT's $1 million clipping fund.
Doing good for people is the way to get ahead.
Help feed people, build your future.
7 days left to apply | 1B views the fund targets | 88M+ followers already in |
IN THIS EDITION
The fund: the first fund video is live, from a creator with 2,479 followers.
Hunger: the US has $720 million for Feed the Future and no plan yet.
Creators: a YouTuber took his AI film to theaters.
AI: Anthropic gave Agent Skills to an open foundation.
New here? WYDE turns attention into meals. A restaurant gives food. A creator shares it on camera. People eat.
CREATORS: THE FIRST FUND VIDEO IS LIVE
Meet Danah Kim. She is a Seattle creator with 2,479 Instagram followers. On October 17 she shared meals with strangers in downtown Seattle and posted it. It is the first video made for EAT's $1 million clipping fund.
"Beyond the food, it was the conversations, stories, and connections with people I’d never met before that TRULY stayed with me."
The takeaway: you do not need millions of followers. You need content that helps people. Read Danah’s story →
THE BIG IDEA
Doing good is how you get ahead
Goodwill fades after the first burst. It lasts when helping people also moves your own life forward. So EAT makes feeding people a way to get ahead. Everyone in the loop has a reason to come back next week.
WHAT YOU GET
Clipped from day one. EAT clippers cut your posts for TikTok, Reels, Shorts and X. The fund pays the clippers. You pay nothing.
A spot on the EAT creator board. Restaurants and brands come to the top of the board first.
Your fans get paid to clip you. They earn on verified views.
Keep every deal you have. EAT is non-exclusive.
Two EAT videos to learn from
 Six pizzas, one skatepark. A creator asks a pizzeria for 500 pizzas. The manager gives six, free. She hands them out at a skatepark. |  Lunch with a stranger. A creator invites a man she just met to lunch. The restaurant pays the bill. |
"You help feed people. We help grow your audience."
THE DEAL, IN THREE LINES
Applications close October 31 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific.
The fund commits 1 billion impressions to clipping the creators it picks. That is $1 million at $1 per 1,000 verified views.
It is an application, like a venture fund. Content and fit count. Follower count does not.
Applying takes two minutes and costs nothing. EAT does not promise earnings, views or followers. Read who the fund is for →
THE CREATOR ECONOMY
"A creator who built a devoted global fanbase on YouTube and is now bringing that vision to cinema screens is exactly the kind of talent we want to champion."
Zack London's Gossip Goblin channel has 1.4 million subscribers. His trailer passed 15 million views, and the film opens in U.S. theaters December 4.
Why it matters: a YouTube audience just became a movie audience.
Ibai Llanos took La Velada del Año to Netflix for 2027 to 2029. The 2025 edition drew 9.3 million concurrent viewers.
Whop is now valued at $5.1 billion, 3.2 times its February valuation.
FOR RESTAURANTS: GIVE MEALS, GET SEEN
A creator films at your restaurant and shares your food with the community.
Each clip shows your restaurant giving.
You can claim a food donation receipt from the WYDE Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity.
AI AND TECH
"We're committed to keeping Agent Skills open, community-driven, and vendor-neutral."
Anthropic reports 1 million published skills and nearly 280 million installs. The Agentic AI Foundation now hosts 10 projects.
Quick hits
NVIDIA pledged $250 million in compute for UK AI safety research. It is compute access, not cash.
Anthropic’s 5% Public Benefit Fund pledge would be worth about $48 billion on paper.
Marathon Fusion says its neutrons can make medical isotopes and gold at 10 times CERN's rate.
Baba raised $40 million to connect Medicare patients to care teams.
Healthleap raised $38 million for AI that flags hospital patients.
Even Healthcare raised $50 million to expand its Bengaluru hospitals.
THE WEEK IN GIVING
The Associated Press estimates the pledge at about $10.66 billion. That is $146.03 for each of about 73 million children.
More in giving
John Paulson gave $250 million to Hebrew University, its largest gift ever.
The Duke Endowment gave $100 million to North Carolina Children's Hospital.
Yellowstone will receive $105 million from Tallgrass. WYDE could not verify the record claim.
Larry Gies pledged $100 million in matching funds to the business school that carries his name.
Four Nashville partners gave $1 million to Dolly Parton's Imagination Library.
The Ford Foundation reorganized its grantmaking into seven funding areas.
THE FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER
"There's money in the appropriations bill, there are directives there, and the numbers in the IPC reports are alarming."
Congress set aside $720 million for Feed the Future in fiscal 2026, Devex reports. The five-year strategy that guides it is still unreleased.
Why it matters: the money expires Sept. 30, 2027.
"Instead of this money feeding families in need, New allegedly used the cash to bankroll a life of luxury."
Prosecutors say about $4.6 million in SNAP benefits went to fraudulent accounts and about $4 million was siphoned out.
The fine print: an indictment is an accusation, not a finding of guilt.
MONEY AND FRAUD
Quick hits
Interpol recovered more than $105 million and made 1,462 arrests in Operation Serengeti III.
New York wants $1.3 billion from the NovaTech founders.
HSBC put its RedCoin stablecoin on PayMe for more than 3.3 million users.
Stablecoins moved over $400 million an hour on average in Q3, a Coinbase report says.
Clanker, the launchpad behind $EAT, has a new operator. The $EAT contract does not change.
IMAGINE IF TRADES MATTERED
$EAT is the first token that funds creators to end hunger. All trades fund creators.
Every $EAT trade carries a 1 percent fee, split four ways: creators, hunger-relief charities, liquidity and the platform.
Creators are paid for work. They do not need to buy, hold or promote the token.
THE EAT CHALLENGES APP LAUNCHES SOON
Applications close October 31. Then the challenges go live. Get set up now so you are ready on day one.
Get the EAT app.
Apply to the fund before October 31.
Choose a local restaurant you want to film with.
WORK WITH US
The podcast: our guest list is open to creators and founders whose work has a result behind it. Apply to be a guest.
Writers: report a story for WYDE Newsroom. See the list below.
Brands: brands are EAT's next focus. Back a creator whose content feeds people. Start at fund.eat.ong.
Nonprofits: reply to this email. Tell us what you want to build.
NEW ON THE SITE
Creator profiles: Zack London and Dr. Smiles.
Givers and leaders: John Paulson, Larry Gies, Tamir Sheafer, Dolly Parton, Heather Gerken, Luke Lindberg, Kim Wilhelm and Dianne McLeod.
Organizations: The Duke Endowment, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Ford Foundation, Food Research and Action Center, Rhode Island Community Food Bank and Agentic AI Foundation.
Rankings: Largest Charitable Gifts, Largest Gifts to US Universities, Largest Healthcare Gifts of 2026 and Largest Hunger Relief Gifts of 2026.
$EAT BY THE NUMBERS
Meals funded: 73,484 when the fund story was written. The goal is one billion. This is not investment advice.
WRITE FOR WYDE
WYDE Newsroom publishes outside contributors under their own names. Report a story and you get the byline, an author page, a spot in the contributor directory, a do-follow backlink and a place in front of 125,000 newsletter readers.
Stories we want written
YouTube Creator Zack London’s AI-Animated Feature Lands AGC International Distribution Deal (wanted by 2026-10-25)
Yellowstone receives record $105 million gift for infrastructure, conservation, access (wanted by 2026-10-25)
Trump is giving Nick Shirley $10,000 and launching a $25 million fraud bounty program (wanted by 2026-10-25)
PropertyGuru ex-CEO’s AI health startup Genie Health raises US$3 million in seed funding (wanted by 2026-10-25)
Always open: Crypto that changes how money moves, and who it reaches
Always open: The creator economy: the businesses, deals and funds behind creators
A restaurant gives. A creator shares. People eat. Now it is your turn. Apply by October 31.
Help feed people. Build your future.
Onward,
The WYDE Team
P.S. Know a creator who feeds people or helps people on camera? Forward this. The founding round closes October 31.
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