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MAY 13, 2025
The conversation around AI has shifted from speculation to reality almost overnight. What was once seen as a distant innovation is now reshaping the way we work, connect, and create. For associations organizations built on trust, expertise, and community the rise of AI isn’t just a question of adaptation. It’s a challenge of relevance.
Futurism
MAY 13, 2025
Two years after partnering with OpenAI to automate marketing and customer service jobs, financial tech startup Klarna says it's longing for human connection again. Once gunning to be OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's " favorite guinea pig ," Klarna is now plotting a big recruitment drive after its AI customer service agents couldn't quite hack it. The buy-now-pay-later company had previously shredded its marketing contracts in 2023, followed by its customer service team in 2024, which it proudly began rep
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Ars Technica
MAY 13, 2025
SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company's next Starship rocket Monday, clearing a major hurdle on the path to launch later this month on a high-stakes test flight to get the private rocket program back on track. Starship ignited its Raptor engines Monday morning on a test stand near SpaceX's Starbase launch facility in South Texas. The engine ran for approximately 60 seconds, and SpaceX confirmed the test-firing in a post on X : "Starship completed a long duration six-engine static fire a
Futurism
MAY 13, 2025
Elon Musk's AI chatbot, Grok, thinks that The Atlantic and The BBC are credible, reputable sources for news and information. Which is funny, because Musk who's engaged in a years-long project to erode trust in legacy media organizations and even specific journalists doesn't. And now, he's furious at his own AI chatbot. The Musk-Grok tiff happened over the weekend, when a misinformation-spreading X-formerly-Twitter user @amuse posted an " article " about billionaire bogeymen (like George and Al
Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business
For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.
Wired
MAY 13, 2025
CEO Brian Chesky is spending hundreds of millions to relaunch his travel company as an everything app. Fitness! Food! Microdermabrasion? A WIRED exclusive.
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Wired
MAY 13, 2025
General Motors has cracked the chemistry of lower-cost, energy-dense electric vehicle batteries. Budget-conscious gasoline holdouts may soon have no excuse.
Ars Technica
MAY 13, 2025
These days, when Nicole Yelland receives a meeting request from someone she doesnt already know, she conducts a multistep background check before deciding whether to accept. Yelland, who works in public relations for a Detroit-based nonprofit, says shell run the persons information through Spokeo, a personal data aggregator that she pays a monthly subscription fee to use.
Wired
MAY 13, 2025
Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internets biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address.
Ars Technica
MAY 13, 2025
Imagine a world where AI-powered bots can buy or sell cryptocurrency, make investments, and execute software-defined contracts at the blink of an eye, depending on minute-to-minute currency prices, breaking news, or other market-moving events. Then imagine an adversary causing the bot to redirect payments to an account they control by doing nothing more than entering a few sentences into the bots prompt.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!
Fast Company Tech
MAY 13, 2025
AI integration remains a top priority across enterprises worldwide, yet success remains elusive despite widespread enthusiasm and significant investment. An October 2024 study by Boston Consulting Group found that only 26% of companies have derived measurable business value from their AI initiatives. As a result, CEOs face mounting pressure to deliver tangible ROI, shifting focus from experimentation to real-world outcomes.
VentureBeat
MAY 13, 2025
Shu Yoshida has graduated from Sony, but he is not retired. Rather, he is running a new indie games consulting company dubbed YOSP Inc. Yoshida’s appetite to do more in gaming shows just how much he loves indie game developers.
Fast Company Tech
MAY 13, 2025
Since its last major redesign in 2022 , Airbnb has been all about the destination: staying in homes so unique or glamorousfrom McMansions with amazing pools to surrealist homes in a shoethat they might be worth a trip unto itself. But starting today, Airbnb is expanding its purview beyond homes. again. Its launching a new product called Airbnb Services, and redoubling on Airbnb Experiences (first launched in 2016).
Singularity Hub
MAY 13, 2025
Seismic data collected by NASA suggests the amount of water hidden in the red planet’s crust would cover its surface in a global ocean. Evidence is mounting that a secret lies beneath the dusty red plains of Mars, one that could redefine our view of the red planet: a vast reservoir of liquid water, locked deep in the crust. Mars is covered in traces of ancient bodies of water.
Speaker: Jennifer Hill
Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.
Ars Technica
MAY 13, 2025
Google is adding a new security setting to Android to provide an extra layer of resistance against attacks that infect devices, tap calls traveling through insecure carrier networks, and deliver scams through messaging services. On Tuesday, the company unveiled the Advanced Protection mode, most of which will be rolled out in the upcoming release of Android 16.
CIO Dive
MAY 13, 2025
Technology teams are grappling with complexities and inefficiencies that are putting their goals further out of reach, according to an Ivanti report.
NonProfit PRO
MAY 13, 2025
The Gates Foundation is accelerating its mission by spending $200 billion over the next 20 years, while setting 2045 as the year to sunset its operations.
TechSpot
MAY 13, 2025
In an email posted on Reddit from "The VPN Secure Team" sent to lifetime subscription holders, it's explained that VPNSecure was acquired in 2023. The deal included the technology, domain, and customer database, but not the liabilities.
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Mashable Tech
MAY 13, 2025
Google’s Find My Device network is getting a new name — the Find Hub. During The Android Show , the Android 16-focused preview event ahead of Google I/O 2025 next week, we learned that Google's location tracking network is being rebranded as Find Hub, probably to avoid confusion with Apple's Find My network. During the event, Google team members said that the new Find Hub would let you track luggage, devices, and people, and will eventually let you locate lost bags while flying.
Futurism
MAY 13, 2025
A recent survey by tech giant IBMcame to a conclusion that could send shockwaves through Wall Street and the tech sector writ large. The survey asked whether or not company leaders were reporting that their AI initiatives delivered the expected return on investment. A shockingly small proportion of the surveyed CEOs reported that the tech was delivering on its promises, with only a quarter of the 2,000respondents answering in the affirmative, while only 16 percent scaled AI across the entire ent
Engadget
MAY 13, 2025
This Thursday is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), and as has been its custom for the last few years, Apple 's accessibility team is taking this time to share some new assistive features that will be coming to its ecosystem of products. In addition to bringing "Accessibility Nutrition Labels" to the App Store , it's announcing the new Magnifier for Mac, an Accessibility Reader, enhanced Braille Access as well as a veritable cornucopia of other updates to existing tools.
Mashable Tech
MAY 13, 2025
This year marks four decades since Apple founded its first accessibility office, an initiative to build more adaptable computers that would launch decades of device and operating system tools , including Assistive Access and Personal Voice. As Global Accessibility Awareness Day (May 15) approaches, Apple is leaning into this legacy. Previewing a slew of new features set to be released throughout this year, the company explained it was ushering in a "new level of accessibility across the Apple ec
Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson
Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.
Fast Company Tech
MAY 13, 2025
BESSEMER, Ala.They all came here for peace, and so far, the land has given it to them. For Marshall Killingsworth, the peace comes from the owls whose hoots echo across the valley as he sits in his favorite spot in his garden. For David Havron, its looking up at the stars at night as the moonlight glistens off the lake just outside his back door. For Mary Rosenboom, its the calls of the songbirds as the sun slowly sets over the hilly terrain.
Ars Technica
MAY 13, 2025
Most robots rely on complex control systems, AI-powered or otherwise, that govern their movement. These centralized electronic brains need time to react to changes in their environment and produce movements that are often awkwardly, well, robotic. It doesnt have to be that way. A team of Dutch scientists at the FOM Institute for Molecular and Atomic Physics (AMOLF) in Amsterdam built a new kind of robot that can run, go over obstacles, and even swim, all driven only by the flow of air.
Mashable Tech
MAY 13, 2025
It's software update season, folks. Google confirmed on Tuesday that Android 16 , the next release of its mobile operating system (and, confusingly for some people around my age, one of the best Dragon Ball Z characters) will launch in June. It brings plenty of new Gemini AI features, as well as a refresh to the user interface that's rolling out to Pixel devices first.
Ars Technica
MAY 13, 2025
Nextcloud is a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "Regain control over your data." It contains products that allow for video chat, file storage, collaborative editing, and other stuff that reads a lot like a DIY Google Workspace replacement. It's hard to offer that kind of full replacement, though, if your Android app can't upload anything other than media files.
Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand
Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!
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