As a chief innovation officer, writing fiction helps me with my job. I'm now a better strategist.

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The author shares how writing fiction has made her better at her 9-to-5 job.

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I've traveled beyond Japan's popular Tokyo-Kyoto-Osaka route. There are 4 day trips I'd actually recommend.

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11 of the most interesting quotes from Claude users about their hopes and fears for AI

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I made a Michelin-starred chef's version of a McDonald's McMuffin. It only took 10 minutes and tasted way better than the original.

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Michelin-starred chef Greg Marchand's homemade version of a McDonald's McMuffin.

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US Startup Wants Someone With a ‘History of Being Let Down by Technology’ to ‘Bully’ AI

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The job requires someone to yell at AI chatbots for eight hours.

Amazon is reportedly working on a new phone built around Alexa

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Amazon is reportedly planning to re-enter the smartphone market more than 10 years after its last attempt. According to a Reuters report, the mysterious phone is internally codenamed "Transformer" and is being developed by the company’s devices and services unit.

Amazon is launching a phone again

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Amazon is launching a phone for the first time in over a decade.

Apollo.io acquires Pocus as it pushes to build an AI-native operating system for sales teams

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The San Francisco B2B sales platform, which recently approached $200M in ARR and appointed a new CEO, absorbs the revenue intelligence startup’s signal-layer technology to deepen its enterprise push. Apollo.io has acquired Pocus, a revenue intelligence startup that helps sales teams identify and prioritise the accounts most likely to buy based on behavioural and CRM […]

Your travel prep should include learning the language with Babbel

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I thought using AI and vibe coding could protect me from job cuts, but Amazon still laid me off. Here's what I learned.

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Tejal Rives joined Amazon in 2021.

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