Springboard

28/05/2026

Springboard is looking for 1–2 pilot partners in the Philippines and Singapore for a focused AI-augmented support operations POC.

We’re building a hybrid AI + human operational workflow layer powered by:
* OpenAI realtime orchestration
* Anthropic reasoning & QA systems
* human escalation & oversight

Designed for:
* BPOs & contact centers
* logistics & supply chain operators
* e-commerce businesses
* customer support & dispatch teams

The focus is practical operational impact:
* AI agent assist
* intelligent escalation routing
* automated QA scoring
* ticket summarization
* multilingual support workflows
* operational analytics

This is not a generic chatbot deployment.

We’re looking for organizations with:
* measurable support workload
* operational pain points
* leadership openness to experimentation
* readiness for a focused 6–8 week pilot

Pilot structure:
* no professional services fee during the POC
* partner covers infrastructure/API costs only
* KPI-driven implementation with measurable outcomes

We are intentionally limiting this first deployment batch, and applications are being reviewed on a rolling basis.

Interested in exploring practical OpenAI + Anthropic operational workflows for your organization?

Apply here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd88XjYyi_1RksAeG8vV4R4lH2D8tVPni0ZOBRCbYs84WVaYg/viewform

Questions or referrals:
[email protected]

29/04/2026

At SBLabs, interns don’t just observe. They build.

Through the SBLabs Internship Program, Michael Luyun is building more than just experience. He is developing a full-stack HR System for Springboard Philippines, designed to streamline employee records, attendance tracking, leave workflows, schedules, and payroll.

Learn more about his story here: https://springboard.com.ph/from-classroom-learning-to-real-world-tech-with-michael-luyun/

28/04/2026

Students tackling real-world problems through tech. 💡

During InnOlympics 2026, Team SCALE built Aliri, a digital companion designed to help Filipino families better navigate autism care through learning modules, guided support, and access to nearby mental health clinics.

With mentorship from Springboard’s Jake Go, the team turned pressure into purpose, showing how young innovators can build solutions that respond to real community needs.

Read their story and see how student builders are using technology to create meaningful impact: https://springboard.com.ph/filipino-students-built-an-app-to-help-navigate-autism-care-at-innolympics-2026/

InnOlympics 2026, organized by Google Developer Groups on Campus PLM, is a weekend-long hackathon where students collaborate, code, and build real-world solutions using Google and open-source technologies. This year, the competition focused on three tracks: education and opportunity access, health a...

27/04/2026

Governments are starting to treat children’s social media access less like a platform moderation issue and more like a policy problem. Australia’s law has required age-restricted platforms to take reasonable steps to prevent under-16s from having accounts since December 10, 2025, with potential penalties of up to A$49.5 million for noncompliance. Norway said on April 24 that it will submit a bill this year to set a new age limit tied to the year a child turns 16, while Reuters says countries including Austria, France, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, Turkey, and others are also advancing restrictions or bans.

What this raises is a broader question about where the internet is heading next. If more countries move in this direction, social platforms may have to become more heavily age-gated, more localized, and far more aggressive about verification. At the same time, critics cited by TechCrunch argue that these bans can be invasive, ineffective, and too dependent on age-checking systems that come with their own privacy tradeoffs.

24/04/2026

Vercel has confirmed a security incident affecting certain internal systems, and says the breach originated from Context.ai, a third-party AI tool used by a Vercel employee. According to Vercel, the attacker used that compromise to take over the employee’s Google Workspace account, which then allowed access to some Vercel environments and environment variables that were not marked as “sensitive.”

22/04/2026

What started as a futuristic spectacle is starting to look a lot more serious. At the Beijing E-Town half marathon on April 19, humanoid robots ran on parallel tracks alongside 12,000 human participants, and several of the top robot finishers were faster than the human winners by more than 10 minutes. The standout machine, developed by Honor, clocked 50:26, faster than the human world-record mark of 57:20 set by Jacob Kiplimo in March.

Photo Courtesy of PBS News

21/04/2026

Researchers from the University of Toronto say their new “GPUBreach” technique can use Rowhammer-style bit flips in GDDR6 GPU memory to corrupt GPU page tables, gain arbitrary GPU memory access, and then escalate to a CPU-side root shell by exploiting memory-safety bugs in the NVIDIA driver.

At the same time, Rockstar Games has confirmed that a limited amount of non-material company information was accessed in connection with a third-party data breach. Separately, a Stanford-led study analyzing 10 million websites found 1,748 active verified credentials from providers including AWS, Stripe, and OpenAI exposed in live site code, spread across nearly 10,000 webpages, with most leaks found in JavaScript bundles.

The bigger pattern here is not just that breaches keep happening, but that the weak points are showing up everywhere at once: in hardware, in vendors, and in production websites that were never supposed to reveal their keys in public.

17/04/2026

Samsung is moving closer to fully retiring one of its long-running first-party apps. The company says Samsung Messages will be discontinued in July 2026 and is now directing users to switch to Google Messages as their default texting app.

What stands out is that this is not just an app change, but another sign of how much of the Android experience is consolidating around Google’s core services.

15/04/2026

Apple may be preparing a major shift in how Siri works. According to reports from Bloomberg, summarized by Reuters and others, Apple is planning to open Siri to rival AI services in iOS 27, which could allow users to route requests through third-party assistants like Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude instead of relying only on the current ChatGPT integration. The same reports say Apple could introduce tools that let users choose which AI service handles specific queries, as it tries to position the iPhone more strongly as an AI platform.

What stands out here is how different this would make Apple’s AI strategy look. Rather than insisting Siri do everything on its own, Apple appears to be leaning into a model where the iPhone becomes a gateway to multiple AI systems. That raises a broader question about where platform power is headed next: toward building the best model, or toward owning the device layer where users decide which model they want.

13/04/2026

A patient’s voice may eventually become part of how clinicians flag early signs of disease. In a 2025 study published in Frontiers in Digital Health, researchers analyzed 12,523 voice recordings from 306 participants and found that specific acoustic features, especially harmonic-to-noise ratio and its variability, helped distinguish benign vocal fold lesions and laryngeal cancer from healthy voices. The clearest signals appeared in cisgender men, while the authors said larger and more diverse datasets are still needed to test whether the method can work reliably across broader populations.

The bigger shift here is not just about cancer detection, but about what counts as a medical signal in the first place. If short voice samples can one day help triage patients earlier, screening could start moving beyond scans, scopes, and lab work into something far more routine, passive, and accessible.