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How I Built a Personal Board of Directors With GenAI - MIT Sloan Management Review (No paywall)
Sree VijaykumarUsing GenAI tools, leaders can construct a virtual, personal board of directors made of personas modeled after current and historic thinkers and strategists. Author Vipin Gupta has made an MVP Board based on leaders including Steve Jobs, Indra Nooyi, and Nelson Mandela. Each virtual adviser offers distinct perspectives on strategy, innovation, ethics, and operations questions. Combined with your human relationships, your own virtual board would form a hybrid team of advisers.

Leadership experts have long championed the concept of a personal board of directors as a way for executives to surround themselves with a circle of trusted mentors, sponsors, and advisers. I've advocated for and practiced this model myself during the past several years. But here's the twist: What if your board members didn't have to be real people? With the rise of generative AI (GenAI), every leader can build a personal board of directors composed of virtual personas modeled after some of the greatest thinkers, strategists, creators, and operators in history. This isn't science fiction. It's a modern, scalable way to access world-class insight and clarity on demand. And I've built one.

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What Happens to People Who Move to the Beach? A Massive New Study Shows an Unexpected Benefit - Inc (No paywall)
What Happens to People Who Move to the Beach? A Massive New Study Shows an Unexpected Benefit
That would be to pick the whole thing up and move it about 30 miles to the southeast, so that wed be on the beach. While thats really just my personal preference and if you knew me in real life, youd know its a pretty deeply felt one it turns out there might be a significant benefit if we could ever pull it off.


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Nuclear Submarines Moved Near Russia On Trump's Order - Forbes (No paywall)
Nuclear Submarines Moved Near Russia On Trump's Order
After trading barbs overnight with former Russian leader Dmitri A. Medvedev, President Donald Trump has ordered nuclear submarines to be positioned in the appropriate regions near Russia just in case.


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A New Satanic Neo-Nazi Group Is Recruiting Children as Young as 12
A New Satanic Neo-Nazi Group Is Recruiting Children as Young as 12
Milikolosskrieg, a global extremist youth organization, is already discussing attacks on schools and places of worship.


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The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology
The renewable energy revolution is a feat of technology
An energy revolution is underway in this century, though most people have not noticed it




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Microsoft ends tradition of naming competitors in regulatory filings
Apple, Meta and Nvidia still mention their rivals in annual reports. It's a practice that Alphabet, Amazon and Tesla gave up years ago.


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Mark Zuckerberg says anyone not wearing AI glasses in the future will be at a disadvantage
Zuckerberg said immersive smart glasses could bring the idea of the metaverse to fruition.


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OpenAI hits $12 billion in annualized revenue, The Information reports
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI roughly doubled its revenue in the first seven months of the year, reaching $12 billion in annualized revenue, the Information reported on Wednesday citing a source.


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Russias China Ties Spur Boom in Learning Mandarin - Bloomberg (No paywall)
Russias China Ties Spur Boom in Learning Mandarin
A boom in learning Mandarin, including in President Vladimir Putin's family, has become a stark example of Russia's continued pivot toward China and away from ties with the West.




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Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt
Real milk proteins, no cows: Engineered bacteria pave the way for vegan cheese and yogurt
Bacteria are set to transform the future of dairy-free milk products. Scientists have successfully engineered E. coli to produce key milk proteins essential for cheese and yogurt production, without using any animal-derived ingredients. This paves the way for plant-based dairy alternatives that mimic traditional dairy at a molecular level but are sustainable and cruelty-free.


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100,000 People Have Disappeared in Mexico. Scientists Are Using Dead Pigs to Find Them.
100,000 People Have Disappeared in Mexico. Scientists Are Using Dead Pigs to Find Them.
Because pigs are remarkably similar to humans, knowing the signs of their decomposition can help identify hidden burials.


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During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel achieved stunning military success against what seemed to be formidable adversaries. - Foreign Affairs (No paywall)
During the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel achieved stunning military success against what seemed to be formidable adversaries.
et Israel didn't translate its military success into active diplomacy; if it had, the region and Israel's position in it might look very different today. Israel may not have thought it had a choice to make back then: it didn't believe it had viable Arab partners for peace, and its military dominance was far from assured, as demonstrated just six years later when Egypt launched a surprise attack and started the Yom Kippur War.


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How Trump Let $1 Trillion Worth of Imports Escape His Tariff Hammer - Bloomberg (No paywall)
How Trump Let $1 Trillion Worth of Imports Escape His Tariff Hammer
Exclusions reflect conflicting goals: to rip up the rules of global trade while cushioning US consumers. But the process isn't transparent, and not everybody wins.




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World's 'oldest baby' born from embryo frozen in 1994
World's 'oldest baby' born from embryo frozen in 1994
Parents of boy born in Ohio, US, used 'adopted' IVF embryo that had been stored away for more than 30 years


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3 Cognitive Habits of People Who Get Things Done - Inc (No paywall)
3 Cognitive Habits of People Who Get Things Done
Marcus leads a team of eight direct reports, and Jennifer is his star employee. While the other seven team members struggle to complete tasks on time or in the way Marcus asks for them, Jennifer seems to ace any task shes given. She asks questions when shes unclear and owns up to her mistakes. Any time the other employees mess up, Marcus wishes he could clone Jennifer seven times and save himself the hassle.


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Four killed in Montana bar shooting that is USs ninth mass murder of 2025
Four killed in Montana bar shooting that is USs ninth mass murder of 2025
Anaconda is about 75 miles (120km) south-east of Missoula. A town of about 9,000 people in a valley hemmed in by mountains, it was founded by copper barons who profited off nearby mines in the late 1800s.


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4 Things Apple Maps Does Better Than Google Maps
4 Things Apple Maps Does Better Than Google Maps
It's totally understandable if you havent opened Apple Maps since its disastrous launch in 2012, which among other things saw people driving into riverbanks. It was not a launch that inspired confidence. That was over a decade ago, though, which is an eternity in the world of software. After years of refinement, Apple Maps is pretty good now.




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First major issue whether Rohingya refugees or illegal entrants: SC
First major issue whether Rohingya refugees or illegal entrants: SC
Even if the Rohingya have been held to be illegal entrants, can they be detained indefinitely or they are entitled to be released on bail, subject to such conditions as the court may deem fit to be imposed? it asked.


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Animal fats impair immune response to cancer growth
Animal fats impair immune response to cancer growth
Study reveals animal fats hinder immune cells, while plant fats may aid in cancer defense, highlighting diet's role in cancer prevention.


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Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run - MIT Technology Review (No paywall)
Forcing LLMs to be evil during training can make them nicer in the long run
A new study from Anthropic suggests that traits such as sycophancy or evilness are associated with specific patterns of activity in large language modelsand turning on those patterns during training can, paradoxically, prevent the model from adopting the related traits.


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The clever way Ukraine keeps its F-16s safe from Russia could be key to airpower survival in modern war - Business Insider (No paywall)
The clever way Ukraine keeps its F-16s safe from Russia could be key to airpower survival in modern war
Being able to fight from nontraditional locations is a growing priority for the West amid concerns about peer-level conflict against a foe such as Russia or China and the risk that fixed bases could be destroyed early in a conflict.


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Trump Mideast Envoy Visits Gaza Aid Sites
Trump Mideast Envoy Visits Gaza Aid Sites
President Donald Trumps Middle East envoy and the U.S. ambassador to Israel visited an aid site in Gaza on Friday in what was the first visit of senior officials to the Palestinian territory in a decade.


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NYC Shooting Horror Rocks Rudin's Century-Old Property Dynasty - Bloomberg (No paywall)
NYC Shooting Horror Rocks Rudin's Century-Old Property Dynasty
The deadly day at 345 Park Ave. is thrusting a long-time private real estate family, the Rudins, into the spotlight.


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You Can Insider Trade NFTs Now - Bloomberg (No paywall)
You Can Insider Trade NFTs Now
OpenSea was, and as far as I can tell still is, a big marketplace for trading nonfungible tokens.




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How to start your own business in 2025, according to people who already did
How to start your own business in 2025, according to people who already did
Many workers, perhaps disillusioned by cubicle walls and fluorescent lighting, may have indulged in a fantasy at some point in their careers. Theyd finally take that side gig and make it their sole source of income. Theyd open that boutique in the empty storefront they pass every day. Theyd turn that idea for an app into reality.


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FDA to stress opioids' risk of overdose, death in new medication safety labels - STAT (No paywall)
FDA to stress opioids' risk of overdose, death in new medication safety labels
The Food and Drug Administration will soon require prescription opioid manufacturers to include stronger language on the medications labels warning that higher doses and longer-term use carry risks including overdose and death.


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Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet
Ready or not, age verification is rolling out across the internet
Despite a global political push, age verification still isn't ready for broad adoption.


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Why the latest meme stock craze won't take down the overall market - WSJ (No paywall)
Why the latest meme stock craze won't take down the overall market
There are two reasons for concern. The first is that excessive gambling in the market leads to unsustainably high prices that have to crash. GameStop and AMC Entertainment Holdings, the stars of the meme-stock boom in 2021, are down 74% and 99% respectively from their peaks. If speculation has lifted the market as a whole, it will eventually sink it, too.




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Weathering change: Fewer cold fatalities, more heat emergencies in California
Weathering change: Fewer cold fatalities, more heat emergencies in California
As temperatures rise, California is experiencing fewer deaths from cold temperatures, which outweigh increased deaths from extreme heat. However, hotter temperatures sharply increase emergency department visits-a previously overlooked consequence of climate change that could place a greater burden on the health care system.


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What Searching For Aliens Reveals About Ourselves
Looking for life beyond Earth changes the way we perceive life right here at home.


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Eating the food on your plate in a certain order is better for your health-here's why - Health (No paywall)
Eating the food on your plate in a certain order is better for your health-here's why
As the adage goes, timingis everythingand that may be true when it comes to eating as much as anything else in life. If you want to feel and function at your best, the timing of your food choices could make a difference.


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Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It's Worse Than Imagined.
Trump Just Released His Plan to Revoke Birthright Citizenship. It's Worse Than Imagined.
Try as it might, the government cannot cover up the horrors with bureaucratic legalese.




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Treating Gazas Collective Trauma - The New Yorker (No paywall)
Treating Gazas Collective Trauma
The line outside Dr. Bahzad al-Akhrass clinic starts to assemble before sunrise, a ripple of bodies in the half-light standing barefoot or in frayed sandals, waiting for a turn at what now passes for care. His clinic is wherever it needs to be: in a corner at a shelter compound, on the move during a walk around the yard, or behind the makeshift screen of a bedsheet pulled between two poles, if the wind allows. Often, Akhras sees patients in a tented space, tucked among hundreds of other such tents in the dense sprawl of Al-Mawasi, in the southern end of the Gaza Strip.


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Trump's mass deportations are hurting local economies
Trump's mass deportations are hurting local economies
From rotting crops to shuttered assembly lines, we will all soon feel the effects of Trump's cruel policies


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Tesla's Sweden Sales Plunge 85.8% in July, Year to Date Decline Hits 63%
Tesla's Sweden Sales Plunge 85.8% in July, Year to Date Decline Hits 63%
Data shared by the Mobility Sweden association on Friday revealed that Tesla sales in the Scandinavian country plunged 85.8% year over year in July to just 163 vehicles.


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Top 40 Jobs Most Likely to Be Impacted by AI
Top 40 Jobs Most Likely to Be Impacted by AI
"As AI adoption accelerates, it's important that we continue to study and better understand its societal and economic impact," Kiran Tomlinson told Newsweek.




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Delta Air Lines apologizes after 25 injured during severe turbulence
Delta Air Lines apologizes after 25 injured during severe turbulence
Delta Air Lines apologized after "significant turbulence" on a Salt Lake City-Amsterdam flight hospitalized 25 and forced an emergency landing in Minneapolis.


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Sex differences: Men compete for women, women compete with women.
Sex differences: Men compete for women, women compete with women.
Men compete for women. Women compete with women.


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How inflammation rewrites the story of who we are.
How inflammation rewrites the story of who we are.
The site of consciousness is a historical debate among scholars; however, new data revealed that the body and brain may play an equal role in creating the sense of self.


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Why Amazon's massive retail business is no longer enough - WSJ (No paywall)
Why Amazon's massive retail business is no longer enough
The companys generally strong second-quarter report late Thursday was marred by what was considered a disappointing showing by its Amazon Web Services cloud-computing business. AWS revenue grew 17% from a year earlier to about $30.9 billion, which was largely flat with the growth rate shown the previous quarter and merely in line with Wall Streets projections. That came after rivals Microsoft and Alphabets Google reported accelerating growth in their own cloud units for the same period.




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4 things to know about cane sugar vs. high-fructose corn syrup as Coca-Cola switches
4 things to know about cane sugar vs. high-fructose corn syrup as Coca-Cola switches
While studies have linked high-fructose corn syrup to conditions such as insulin resistance, nutrition experts told PBS News that cane sugar is not a healthier alternative.


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Russia claims capture of Chasiv Yar after 16-month battle
Russia said on Thursday it had captured the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine after nearly 16 months of fighting, opening the way for potential further advances.


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Rethinking empathy deficits and accommodation in a nuanced world.
Rethinking empathy deficits and accommodation in a nuanced world.
Not all empathy deficits are alike. This post separates autism, narcissism, and psychopathy to clarify the roots and risks of conflating difference with intentional harm.


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The brightest explosion ever seen is still baffling astronomers
The brightest explosion ever seen is still baffling astronomers
The gamma-ray burst is nicknamed the Brightest of All Time, or BOAT.




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Trump's drug price ultimatum sets pharma firms scrambling
A fresh ultimatum demanding "binding commitments" to lower U.S. drug prices sent pharma firms scrambling Friday.


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Trump Unveils New Tariffs For Much of the World to Take Effect on Aug. 7: Live Updates
Trump Unveils New Tariffs For Much of the World to Take Effect on Aug. 7: Live Updates
An executive order explaining the new rates is the latest move by President Trump to remake the global trading system.


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China uses "dark fleet" to buy oil from Iran and evade U.S. sanctions in international waters
China uses
A CBS News investigation reveals that China is still secretly buying Iranian oil and evading U.S. sanctions by having the oil transferred from ship to ship in the middle of the sea.


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Democratic lawmakers press for answers from US security firms involved in controversial Gaza aid organization | CNN Politics
Democratic lawmakers press for answers from US security firms involved in controversial Gaza aid organization | CNN Politics
A group of Democratic lawmakers on Thursday pressed for answers from the heads of two private US-based security firms whose personnel have worked at the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and who the lawmakers say have been accused of deadly violence against civilians seeking aid in the starving enclave.




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How to Grow Human Bones - Nautilus
How to Grow Human Bones - Nautilus
Coral plays a surprising role in modern bone grafts


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Silicon Valley's new strategy: Move slow and build things - WSJ (No paywall)
Silicon Valley's new strategy: Move slow and build things
Theres a point in every technological cycle when engineers and inventors are rapidly innovating. The spoils go to those who move fast and break things," to quote 2010s-era Mark Zuckerberg.



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