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AI advances mean we need to double down on this one skill

Fast Company Tech

Modern-day workers are facing a triple threat from the joint epidemics of algorithms, attention theft, and burnout. Attention theft robs us of time Attention theft is catastrophic to independent thinking and crippling our ability to focus. Heres why: 1. How many times a day are you pulled away from the task at hand?

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AI firms follow DeepSeek’s lead, create cheaper models with “distillation”

Ars Technica

Leading artificial intelligence firms including OpenAI, Microsoft, and Meta are turning to a process called distillation in the global race to create AI models that are cheaper for consumers and businesses to adopt.

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3 Infographic Tips for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The thinking goes something like this: if they won’t pay attention to what we have to say about climate change, homelessness, or education in written form, maybe they will if we say it in pictures. The example below uses just two eye-catching visuals to tell a simple yet startling story about global carbon emissions. A few might work.

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What Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Gen Z

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Also, coming of age during political dysfunction, the rise of global terrorism, climate change, and increasing school violence/shootings, Gen Z is getting exposed to big issues at an early age. billion individuals globally by 2020. Global Web Index ]. Global Web Index ]. MediaKix ]. Gen Zs spend an average of 3.5

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Why you have to pay attention to the Indian startup scene

TechCrunch

venture capital scene in Q3 , and here are our notes on the more global picture. billion went into the space across 1,539 global rounds in the third quarter. And we noted in our growth-rate piece that Next Insurance raised $250 million last month , which has missed our attention. And we touched on India above.

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How Just Stop Oil harnessed emotions to ignite public concern for climate change

Fast Company Tech

These have arguably to date failed, as global temperatures continue to skyrocket. As business scholars Thomas Davenport and John Beck argue in their book The Attention Economy , in a saturated information landscape, being memorableeven disruptivelyis a strategic advantage. As philosopher Glenn A.

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Tiger Global backs African fintech Mono in $15M Series A round

TechCrunch

The round, led by Tiger Global — the VC firm’s third major investment in Africa this year after Flutterwave and FairMoney — also had participation from new investors Target Global (an investor in neobank Kuda), General Catalyst, and SBI Investment. Tiger Global confirmed it led the investment in an email to TechCrunch.

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