Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

With contributions from artists including Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Cat Stevens, and Damon Albarn, the album was released Tuesday to protest proposed British changes to artificial intelligence laws that artists fear will erode their creative control. ” Britain’s center-left Labour Party government says it wants to make the U.K.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

There are a few core elements of the way communities work that we can learn from as a model for innovation as well. Community-Driven Model. But in a community-driven model, you can’t just listen for the sake of learning. That word change supports co-design, it encourages collaboration, and it ensures engagement. Principles.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. Nonprofit organizations, local and federal governments, campaigners and even businesses are trying to innovate at the speed of communities. . Communities As A Model. Photo credit: Flickr Rhys’s Piece Is ).

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Community Library Adopt Evaluation 167

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 27, 2011

Through negotiations, four competing proposals have been merged into a single document supported in June by the Latin Americans (led by Brazil), the U.S., In addition, the two national organizations of blind people both just passed formal resolutions in favor of the treaty proposal. Government support this effort?

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

But Nio also recently finalized a crucially-timed $1 billion bailout from a local government in China, and the price the company had to pay to survive is becoming increasingly apparent. Yes, they benefit from government subsidies and aggressive electric vehicle policies, but it’s not like Beijing is calling the day-to-day shots.

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. Strong data governance and data management can help grantmakers navigate the overwhelming amount of information available. Grantmakers are swimming in a sea of information.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In the last 10 years, AI and ML models have become bigger and more sophisticated — they’re deeper, more complex, with more parameters, and trained on much more data, resulting in some of the most transformative outcomes in the history of machine learning.

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial intelligence is vanishingly rare. The Hard-Steps Model Some of the greatest evolutionary biologists of the 20th century famously dismissed the prospect of humanlike intelligence beyond Earth.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Charlie Baker has refused to sign a law banning most government use of facial recognition. Massachusetts legislators passed the first major state-level facial recognition ban, following a model set by individual cities like Boston and San Francisco.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. by donors, grantors, governing boards, or by law.???.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 16, 2023

While large language models (LLMs) are now beating state-of-the-art approaches in many natural language processing benchmarks, they are typically trained to output the next best response, rather than planning ahead, which is required for multi-turn interactions. The selected sequence of utterances is then fused into a cohesive response.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In short, OpenAI started out as an AI research lab, then became a provider of one-size-fits-all foundation models to enterprises and developers, then watched as ChatGPT stole the show and became its main source of revenue and fame. The question is, where does ChatGPT go from here? I think it’s the OS. She should know.

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The Verge

AUGUST 31, 2021

“We’ll reflect on how to comply with this law while maintaining a model that supports a high-quality operating system and app store, and we will share more in the coming weeks.”. Some in the US government have even proposed legislation similar to what was passed by South Korea. trillion to date with Apple.

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DataRobot

MAY 26, 2022

Last time , we discussed the steps that a modeler must pay attention to when building out ML models to be utilized within the financial institution. In summary, to ensure that they have built a robust model, modelers must make certain that they have designed the model in a way that is backed by research and industry-adopted practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

We’ve set a goal to make MMT a national model of a regional foundation,” Stamm said. We need to move beyond our customary categorical thinking and invite everybody – business, government, communities, organizations, individuals – to work together to address the issues we face before it’s too late.”.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Others, including MIT, have proposed a hybrid model of online and in-person instruction. The plaintiffs claimed that the rule imposed large financial and administrative burdens on colleges and universities and would interfere with reopening guidelines that state governments had already issued.

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Greater Giving

APRIL 22, 2021

For many, that involves a combination of income sources that, together, make up their funding model. A funding model is defined as the methodical and institutionalized approach to bring in revenue to support an organization’s core programs and initiatives. Government Grants. Federated Funds.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

In the nonprofit space, large language models like ChatGPT can support overworked staff that operate with limited resources. AIs benefits wont be equitably distributed without intervention, governance, and responsible frameworks. According to a Candid survey , 23% of grantmakers say they dont accept AI-generated grant proposals.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Musk tweeted Tesla would make “around” 500,000 Model 3s this year, which appeared to clash with the company’s official guidance of delivering 360,000 to 400,000 cars total in 2019.). Much is made lately of unrealized gains being a means of tax avoidance, so I propose selling 10% of my Tesla stock. Do you support this?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Andy Areitio is a partner at the early-stage fund TheVentureCity , a new venture and acceleration model that helps diverse founders achieve global impact. Startups are all about reaching two milestones: (a) product/market fit and (b) a profitable, repeatable and scalable growth model. Andy Areitio. Contributor. Share on Twitter.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

About 45 residents of Austin and the surrounding area spoke about the factory deal on Tuesday at a virtual public meeting held by the Travis County Commissioners Court , the policy-making and administrative arm of the local government. But some Travis County residents still took issue with the proposal at Tuesday’s meeting.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

The Funder’s Role in Risk Funders—by which I mean donors, foundations, impact investors, and government agencies that grant financial support—disincentivize risk in a few ways. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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Skills Problem Proposal Grant 98

TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Although Ample’s battery swapping model is simple on paper, the company is proposing thinking about EV batteries in a completely different way. From the ashes of nearly a billion dollars, Ample resurrects Better Place’s battery swapping business model.

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DataRobot

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The minimum bias approach proposed by Bailey and Simon in the 1960s was gradually adopted over the next 30 years. The later introduction of Generalized Linear Models (GLM) significantly expanded the pricing actuary’s toolbox. All features are designed to increase the efficiency and accuracy of insurance loss cost modeling.

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The Verge

AUGUST 6, 2021

Broadly, the tax proposals have been uncontroversial — but the details of who will bear the burden of reporting transactions have been maddeningly difficult to agree upon. It is the government picking a winner on an otherwise competitive field. This is no way to make policy.”. In a tweet Thursday night, Sen.

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Tech Policy Government Report 96

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain. These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In a draft proposal released on Monday, the ministry outlined its intention to create a working group dedicated to the metaverse. The proposal emphasized that the metaverse is one of nine emerging technology sectors for which China aims to develop comprehensive standards.

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TechNode

JANUARY 28, 2024

27, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo stated that the US government is proposing to require American cloud service companies to conduct self-assessments to determine whether foreign entities are accessing US data centers for training artificial intelligence models.

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Media Cause

JUNE 29, 2024

Some of these tools include: OpenAI for Nonprofits: ChatGPT can help draft grant proposals, refine data analysis, or tailor communication strategies for diverse audiences. Nonprofits must adopt a conscientious approach to data governance and ensure that their use of AI aligns with data privacy to maintain the public’s trust.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

We also had some great role playing contributions from Jess Tyrrell of Germination (playing the “Council Leader&# ) and Cliff Prior of Untld (playing the “Civil Society Minister in a new Tory Government of 2010″). David has written up an incredible rundown of the game, including the cards, the planning documents and more.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We are proposing a new entity that would work iteratively over time to fulfill four main purposes: 1. Information security professionals working in the government and the private sector. We need collaboration with such organizations as TechSoup, NTEN, ISSA, SANS, State, and Federal Governments. What is Nonprofit InfoSec?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I propose a careful exploration of social enterprise strategies is a matter of relevance and survival for small nonprofits in low-income communities, as they cannot rely on their constituents for a high level of donations or otherwise support. Understand the financial resources needed to engage in a social enterprise approach.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

Travis County Commissioner’s Court, the policy-making and administrative arm of the local government, approved an agreement on Tuesday that will save Tesla around $14 million in property taxes over the next 10 years. The company will build the Cybertruck at the factory, as well as Model Y SUVs that are destined for the East Coast of the US.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In the absence of social media compliance and regulatory standards, social networking technologies face increased scrutiny in both the government and commercial sectors. While many government leaders and corporate executives recognize the ability for social media to enable organizations to ?tap tap into the vast amounts of knowledge ?

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 3, 2023

In parallel, the capacities and capabilities of large language models (LLMs) have become so advanced that they have demonstrated comprehension and expertise in medical knowledge by both interpreting and responding in plain language. In two recent papers from Google Research, we show that this is in fact feasible.

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Model Language System Training 89

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 21, 2011

They can’t build the schools and they can’t train the teachers fast enough to replicate our model. For example, we just closed an RFP to solicit proposals to build a game for kids k-3 to better understand STEM. When I leave I will write a book that is called the 100 Things We Do to Make Government Worse.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Microsoft and Google would have to radically change their proposed business models and jump through many hoops to get their cloud gaming services onto the iPhone this way — enough that it almost feels like Apple designed the rules so it could seem benevolent while still keeping xCloud and Stadia out. There are, of course, caveats.

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