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The AI governance mirage: Why 72% of enterprises don’t have the control and security they think they do
Decision makers at 72% of organizations claim to have two or more AI platforms that they identify as their "primary" layer, according to a survey of 40 enterprise companies conducted by VentureBeat last month, revealing real gaps in security and control.  For enterprise managemen…
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The New Unicorn Count Reached A 4-Year High In March, Led By Robotics, Frontier Labs And AI Infrastructure 
A total of 37 companies joined The Crunchbase Unicorn Board in March, the highest monthly count in close to four years, Crunchbase data shows. The robotics sector led unicorn creation last month, with six new billion-dollar startups.
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Early life may have breathed oxygen earlier than believed
Around 2.3 billion years ago, a pivotal period known as the Great Oxidation Event set the evolutionary course for oxygen-breathing life on Earth. But MIT geobiologists and colleagues have found evidence that some early forms of life evolved the ability to use oxygen hundreds of m…
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This tool could show how consciousness works
How does the physical matter in our brains translate into thoughts, sensations, and emotions? It’s hard to explore that question without neurosurgery. But in a recent paper, MIT philosopher Matthias Michel, Lincoln Lab researcher Daniel Freeman, and colleagues outline a strategy …
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What to Consider Before You Accept a Management Role
This article is crossposted from IEEE Spectrum’s careers newsletter. Sign up now to get insider tips, expert advice, and practical strategies, written in partnership with tech career development company Parsity and delivered to your inbox for free! The Individual Contributor–Mana…
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Watch the Lego ‘Project Hail Mary’ Set (Almost) Go to Space
It notched a Guinness World Record for the highest-altitude launch and retrieval of a Lego set.
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Psychology says people who genuinely know their worth don’t announce it or defend it, they operate with a quiet certainty that makes negotiation, justification, and proving themselves feel like a foreign language
They move through life with an unshakeable calm that makes everyone else's constant need for validation look like a desperate performance, and once you understand why, you'll never see confidence the same way again.
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XPENG GX Introduces In-Car Fridge and Central Air System
XPENG has opened pre-orders for its GX flagship SUV, featuring a $56,000 starting price and a first-of-its-kind sterile in-car refrigerator co-developed with Midea, alongside a high-efficiency central air system.
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Meta reportedly begins tracking employee mouse and keyboard activity to train AI systems
Meta has reportedly started rolling out software that records employee mouse movements,… Content originally published on The Tech Portal - Global technology news, latest gadget news and breaking tech news.
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Tencent’s QClaw opens international beta
QClaw, a consumer AI agent developed by the Tencent PC Manager team, has opened its international beta. The product is designed to let non-technical users deploy and interact with AI agents through messaging apps such as WhatsApp and Telegram without command-line setup or API con…
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Hong Kong can advance AI beyond the confines of geopolitical rivalry
There is a tendency to portray the global artificial intelligence (AI) landscape as consisting of two bitter rivals – China and the United States. The remaining 80 per cent of the world’s population, by virtue of their supposed dearth of scale, research and other critical overhea…
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Nobody talks about why people who grew up writing everything down by hand often struggle with processing their own feelings, and it’s because writing things down by hand was how they metabolized emotion, and nobody told them that typing doesn’t do the same thing
For a generation that learned to untangle their deepest emotions through the slow dance of pen on paper, the switch to typing has created an unexpected crisis—leaving them emotionally constipated in a world where keyboards have replaced the very tool that once helped them feel.
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