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Alibaba’s AI tool cut one seller’s costs by 85% — now the question is whether it becomes a marketplace gatekeeper

Alibaba's AI sourcing tool Accio has reportedly surpassed 10 million monthly active users, fundamentally reshaping how small ...
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Nobody talks about the specific grief of watching your retired parent wander from room to room in a house that used to be chaos — not because they’re sad, but bec…

The family home that once buzzed with permission slips and broken bikes now echoes with the sound of my father searching for ...
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Drone strikes on Gulf data centers reveal a $5 trillion infrastructure vulnerability no one planned for

In March 2025, Houthi drone and missile strikes targeted infrastructure across Saudi Arabia and the UAE, including areas near ...
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Japan bets $6.3 billion on physical AI — not to replace workers, but because there are none left to replace

Japan is deploying AI-powered robots across factories, warehouses, and critical infrastructure at accelerating speed — driven ...
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Japan is deploying robots not to replace workers but because there are no workers left to replace

Japan's accelerating deployment of AI-powered robots across factories, warehouses, and infrastructure represents something ...
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From gig workers to fishermen: Vietnam’s fuel shock exposes a country built on one oil route

When Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz began choking global oil flows, Vietnam offered a case study in what happens ...
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A clinical psychologist explains that the need to ‘earn’ your place in every room you enter isn’t humility. It’s the residue of a childhood where love had prerequisites ...

The person in the room who works hardest to justify their presence isn't being humble — they're running software installed ...
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9 signs you have a genuinely sharp mind (even if you never thought of yourself as particularly intelligent)

A friend of mine fixed a scheduling disaster at work last month — not by being the most senior person in the room, but by ...
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Japan is deploying robots not to replace workers but because there’s no one left to hire

While Western discourse around AI remains fixated on job displacement, Japan is deploying physical AI to solve a ...
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Research suggests that high intelligence doesn’t protect against bad decisions – it makes people better at constructing convincing justifications for the bad decisions t…

Here's a finding that stopped me cold: a 2012 study out of Yale found that people with the highest science literacy weren't ...
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Psychology says people who want to change their lives but never start aren’t lazy – they’re waiting for a feeling of readiness that behavioral science confirms almost ...

In the 1970s, clinical psychologist Peter Lewinsohn developed an approach called behavioral activation. The premise was ...
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Research suggests the 1960s and 70s produced adults who could self-soothe, entertain themselves, and tolerate boredom – not because their parents were wise but because their ...

Here’s something that doesn’t get talked about enough: the ability to tolerate boredom is a skill, and like most skills, it develops through practice.