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Stream Driven by Cause Now, With Kay Sprinkel Grace, Renowned Author, Consultant and International Speaker

NonProfit PRO

Listen to Kay Sprinkel Grace, renowned author, consultant, and international speaker. The author of numerous novels including Beyond Fundraising, and her best-selling book, The Ultimate Board Member's Book, and recipient of multiple awards including The AFP Global Fundraising Professional of the Year Award.

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‘The bad news is, this was fake’: The tear-jerking story of author Barbara Miller was a marketing stunt, influencer says

Fast Company Tech

A viral TikTok video showing an empty book signing for an elderly author tugged at millions of heartsuntil it was exposed as an alleged marketing stunt. The book in question, Just Cuz , was reportedly written by Barbara Miller as a tribute to her late husband, Marv.

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40,000 AI-narrated audiobooks flood Audible, dividing authors and listeners

TechSpot

Since announcing a beta tool last year allowing self-published authors to generate AI "virtual voice" narrations for their ebooks, over 40,000 AI-narrated titles have flooded onto Audible, Amazon's audiobook platform. The eye-popping stat, revealed in a recent Bloomberg report, has many authors celebrating but is also raising red flags for.

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A Stytch in time: Connected Apps untangles authorization tie-ups for AI agents

VentureBeat

AI agents are set to change ID authorization: As they integrate behind the scenes, they will need to move seamlessly between different apps on our behalf, and not get continually halted by login screens, lest they become cumbersome. Every app, or almost every app, will need to function as its own

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Neutered: Federal court strikes down FCC authority to impose net neutrality rules

TechSpot

The Federal Communications Commission's long-standing effort to establish stronger oversight of the internet was dealt a decisive blow this week when the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC lacks the authority to regulate wireless and home broadband services under the same set of rules that have traditionally.

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Elon Musk wants to privatize Amtrak. It would make train travel worse

Fast Company Tech

In a 2015 biography of Musk, author Ashlee Vance wrote that part of Musk’s motivations behind announcing the Hyperloop were to force the cancellation of California’s high-speed rail development. Musk has also targeted agencies that specifically investigated or fined his companies.

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Giving By Evangelicals Continues Post Covid Plunge

The NonProfit Times

The numbers paint an increasingly bleak picture of evangelical generosity, according to the authors, a situation which they wrote has the potential to impact every church, every denomination, every parachurch ministry, and even many secular nonprofits. Older evangelicals are more generous than younger evangelicals.

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