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This Perplexity cofounder wants to help AI breakthroughs graduate from university labs

Fast Company Tech

A team of prominent AI researchers, led by Databricks and Perplexity cofounder Andy Konwinski, has launched Laude Institute , a new nonprofit that helps university-based researchers turn their breakthroughs into open-source projects, startups, or large-scale products with real-world impact.

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400k Nonprofits Impacted by Microsoft Grant Cancellation Coming July, 2025

Whole Whale

Cobweb+1Smartdesc+1 Or find an open-source option for local app access and editing. Free/open source alternatives to Microsoft 365 Apps for Nonprofits LibreOffice | libreoffice.org Whole Whale recommends this for most nonprofits given Microsoft compatibility, rich features, active support, and extensive community resources.

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How organizations are advancing digital financial inclusion

Candid

By engaging with regulatory bodies and implementing open-source technology, PCH aims to enable remittances directly into rural customers accounts, reducing reliance on cash-based methods. These efforts ensure that newer infrastructure doesnt unintentionally exclude people lacking formal documentation or consistent internet access.

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What Are Foundation Models?

NVIDIA AI Blog

Google released BERT as open-source software , spawning a family of follow-ons and setting off a race to build ever larger, more powerful LLMs. Experts expect that a growing share of the models will be made open source on sites like Hugging Faces model hub. Foundation models keep getting larger and more complex, too.

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Is Your Nonprofit Site is Giving a Free Lunch to AI Crawlers? How to Monitor AI Bot Traffic

Whole Whale

Who Gets Hit Hardest: Nonprofits This issue disproportionately affects organizations providing free public resources: Libraries & Archives: Public library systems with digital collections Academic libraries hosting research databases Internet Archive and digital preservation projects Special collections and manuscript repositories Educational Institutions: (..)

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ProtonVPN two-year plans are 64 percent off right now

Engadget

It should be pretty easy to find a server to route your internet traffic through as well, since ProtonVPN has more than 8,600 of them across north of 110 countries. In other words, it doesn't track your internet activity while you're using it, helping to protect you and your anonymity. The deal drops the cost from $10 to $3.59

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The DeepSeek R1 update proves its an active threat to OpenAI and Google

Mashable Tech

This week, DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 model on HuggingFace, reigniting the open-source versus closed-source competition. Unlike OpenAI and Google's models, which are famously closed-source, DeepSeek's model weights are publicly available.

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