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ABC News
2 hours ago
- Business
- ABC News
The Queensland government has launched an ambitious 20-year tourism plan, but won't say how much the new strategy will cost.
The strategy aims to double the annual total visitor expenditure to $84 billion and add almost 40,000 new tourism industry jobs by 2045.
CNA
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNA
Japan Hour - Gaia Series 89: Upheaval! Eating Out Survival
42:04 Min This week's episode sees Kyushu-based Sukesan Udon launch in Tokyo, blending tradition and strategy to shake up the Japanese capital's noodle scene. About the show: Spring in Japan (Mar - May) Spring season in Japan is characterized not just by the cherry blossoms, seasonal food and traditional and modern festivals and events, but also by the exceptional beauty that engulfs the land, during the time. From flower festivals to fruit picking, lively traditional parades and picnics, there's plenty of seasonal fun, for anyone in Japan, during the spring season!
Forbes
2 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
Is Flawed AI Distorting Executive Judgment? — What Leaders Must Do
The AI symbol sits at the heart of a circle formed by bright yellow foldable caution signs adorned ... More with exclamation marks. This image creatively conveys the urgent need for awareness and careful consideration of AI's rapid growth and its implications. The design's high impact, with its strong contrast and focal point, makes it an effective tool for raising awareness or sparking conversations around technology, security, and innovation. Perfect for customizable content with plenty of space for additional messaging or branding. As AI embeds deeper into leadership workflows, a subtle form of decision drift is taking hold. Not because the tools are flawed but because we stop questioning them. Their polish is seductive. Their speed, persuasive. But when language replaces thought, clarity no longer guarantees correctness. In July 2023, the Chicago Sun-Times published an AI-generated summer reading list. The summaries were articulate. The titles sounded plausible. But only five of the fifteen books were real. The rest? Entirely made up: fictional authors, fabricated plots, polished prose built on nothing. It sounded smart. It wasn't. That's the risk. Now imagine an executive team building its strategy on the same kind of output. It's not fiction anymore. It's a leadership risk. And it's happening already. Quietly. Perceptibly. In organizations where clarity once meant confidence and strategy was something you trusted. Not just in made-up book titles but in the growing gap between what sounds clear and what's actually correct. Large language models aren't fact checkers. They're pattern matchers. They generate language based on probability, not precision. What sounds coherent may not be correct. The result is a stream of outputs that look strategic but rest on shaky ground. This isn't a call to abandon AI. But it is a call to re-anchor how we use it. To ensure leaders stay accountable. To ensure AI stays a tool, not a crutch. I'm not saying AI shouldn't inform decisions. But it must be paired with human intuition, sense making and real dialogue. The more confident the language, the more likely it is to go unquestioned. Model collapse is no longer theoretical. It's already happening. It begins when models are trained on outputs from other models or worse, on their own recycled content. Over time, distortions multiply. Edge cases vanish. Rare insights decay. Feedback loops breed repetition. Sameness. False certainty. Businessman with white cloud instead of head on blue background. Businessman and management. ... More Business and commerce. Digital art. As The Register warned, general purpose AI may already be declining in quality, not in tone but in substance. What remains looks fluent. But it says less. That's just the mechanical part. The deeper concern is how this affects leaders. When models feed on synthetic data and leaders feed on those outputs, what you get isn't insight. It's reflection. Strategy becomes a mirror, not a map. And we're not just talking bias or hallucinations. As copyright restrictions tighten and human-created content slows, the pool of original data shrinks. What's left is synthetic material recycled over and over. More polish. Less spark. According to researchers at Epoch, high quality training data could be exhausted by 2026 to 2032. When that happens, models won't be learning from the best of what we know. They'll be learning from echoes. Developers are trying to slow this collapse. Many already are, by protecting non-AI data sources, refining synthetic inputs and strengthening governance. But the impending collapse signals something deeper. A reminder that the future of intelligence must remain blended — human machine, not machine alone. Intuitive, grounded and real. Psychologists like Kahneman and Tversky warned us long ago about the framing trap: the way a question is asked shapes the answer. A 20 percent chance of failure feels different than an 80 percent chance of success, even if it's the same data. AI makes this trap faster and more dangerous. Because now, the frame itself is machine generated. A biased prompt. A skewed training set. A hallucinated answer. And suddenly, a strategy is shaped by a version of reality that never existed. Ask AI to model a workforce reduction plan. If the prompt centers on financials, the reply may omit morale, long-term hiring costs or reputational damage. The numbers work. The human cost disappears. AI doesn't interrupt. It doesn't question. It reflects. If a leader seeks validation, AI will offer it. The tone will align. The logic will sound smooth. But real insight rarely feels that easy. That's the risk — not that AI is wrong, but that it's too easily accepted as right. When leaders stop questioning and teams stop challenging, AI becomes a mirror. It reinforces assumptions. It amplifies bias. It removes friction. That's how decision drift begins. Dialogue becomes output. Judgment becomes approval. Teams fall quiet. Cultures that once celebrated debate grow obedient. And something more vital begins to erode: intuition. The human instinct for context. The sense of timing. The inner voice that says something's off. It all gets buried beneath synthetic certainty. To stop flawed decisions from quietly passing through AI-assisted workflows, every leader should ask: AI-generated content is already shaping board decks, culture statements and draft policies. In fast-paced settings, it's tempting to treat that output as good enough. But when persuasive language gets mistaken for sound judgment, it doesn't stay in draft mode. It becomes action. Garbage in. Polished out. Then passed as policy. This isn't about intent. It's about erosion. Quiet erosion in systems that reward speed, efficiency and ease over thoughtfulness. And then there's the flattery trap. Ask AI to summarize a plan or validate a strategy, and it often echoes the assumptions behind the prompt. The result? A flawed idea wrapped in confidence. No tension. No resistance. Just affirmation. That's how good decisions fail — quietly, smoothly and without a single raised hand in the room. Leadership isn't about having all the answers. It's about staying close to what's real and creating space for others to do the same. The deeper risk of AI isn't just in false outputs. It's in the cultural drift that happens when human judgment fades. Questions stop. Dialogue thins. Dissent vanishes. Leaders must protect what AI can't replicate — the ability to sense what's missing. To hear what's not said. To pause before acting. To stay with complexity. AI can generate content. But it can't generate wisdom. The solution isn't less AI. It's better leadership. Leaders who use AI not as final word but as provocateur. As friction. As spark. In fact, human-generated content will only grow in value. Craft will matter more than code. What we'll need most is original thought, deep conversation and meaning making — not regurgitated text that sounds sharp but says nothing new. Because when it comes to decisions that shape people, culture and strategy, only human judgment connects the dots that data can't see. In the end, strategy isn't what you write. It's what you see. And to see clearly in the age of AI, you'll need more than a prompt. You'll need presence. You'll need discernment. Neither can be AI trained. Neither can be outsourced.
CNET
2 days ago
- Business
- CNET
The Best Strategy Mobile Game I Ever Played Just Came Back After a Decade
Battle Nations, a free-to-play turn-based military strategy game for phones developed by studio Z2Live, was taken from us too soon on Sept. 28, 2016. And I'm obviously not the only person who feels like the game didn't have enough time in the sun, because a new version of the game came back to mobile game stores on May 30, 2025 -- nearly a decade after the servers shut down for the last time. I formed a Battle Nations guild with my friends back in middle school to take on some of the game's raids, but we were always severely under-leveled and outnumbered by our enemies. Battle Nations was released during the heyday of mobile gaming, completely revolutionizing what I believed the platform could do. Endless runners like Jetpack Joyride and Subway Surfers gave way to Battle Nations afternoons, filled with planning our group conquests, and it was glorious. The new iteration of the game, called Battle Nations Rewritten, was completely remade by a group of fans who came together to form their own game studio, Madrona Games. This team of developers has spent the last several years ironing out legal proceedings with the game's original publisher, King, to gain the rights to use the Battle Nations trademark. Madrona's developers honed their skills with the release of another game, Tank Tactics, while publishing beta builds for their Patreon subscribers. A tight-knit community of Battle Nations fans approached a major corporation with their own take on an old property and didn't have their fan project taken down. Z2Live was acquired by King in 2015, which is a company that was acquired by Activision Blizzard in 2016, which itself was later acquired by Microsoft in 2023 -- and despite this, Madrona Games was able to make peace with Battle Nations' parent company regardless of large gaming corporations' penchant for suing fan projects using their IP. Now Battle Nations is back in all its former glory, allowing a whole new generation of players to build an outpost and expand their military forces in the name of the emperor. The native wildlife is positively prehistoric and downright dangerous. Madrona Games/Screenshot by CNET What is Battle Nations about? Battle Nations was lampooning fascistic empires before Helldivers 2 made it cool. You're the captain of the 95th Rifle Company of the Imperial Army, a once-renowned military presence that is starting to crack under siege from a rebel army. As flames of conflict approach the capital, the teenage emperor sends your unit to a far-flung continent in search of resources to create a new superweapon. It's your job to grow a budding outpost into a massive military complex, fighting off rebels, vicious local fauna and gas-mask clad warriors that your chauvinistic lieutenant has deemed as "raiders." Your allies are all pretty atrocious people, but their ignorance is constantly made the butt of the joke in Battle Nations' narrative writing. Raiders and rebels are consistently better outfitted and more competent than your team, which forces you to work even harder to stay combat-ready as you advance further into the game. Part city-building simulator and part grid-based tactical battler, Battle Nations appeals to many different types of strategy gamers. I personally enjoyed crafting zany units and utilizing them to defend my outpost as I grew my city-state's economy. Once players reach a high enough level, they'll be able to learn from raider allies to master mammoths and raptors, conduct medical experiments to turn their basic units into zombies and even hire the Team Fortress 2 mercenaries in a bizarre crossover with Valve. (The launch trailer seems to suggest that the famed mercenaries will return in the fan version.) Battle Nations base building will make city sim players feel right at home. Madrona Games/Screenshot by CNET These advances are only made possible through economic prosperity and strong supply lines. Players need to create warehouses, expand their borders to resource deposits and build facilities to process raw materials into stronger forms if they want to build the best units. I've never been gifted at planning out my builds, but the best urban planners will find a great framework to create efficient (and pretty-looking) army bases. As your outpost grows strong enough, you'll start to supplement your foot troops with tanks, helicopters and other heavy vehicles. I remember feeling like I was a true military power by the time Battle Nations shut down. I can't wait to dive back into Battle Nations' take on turn-based combat, even if it means I have to start all over with the bog-standard riflemen. As Battle Nations Rewritten grows and develops, player-versus-player occupations will likely return. Madrona Games/Screenshot by CNET What's next for Battle Nations Rewritten? The new Battle Nations isn't shipping with every multiplayer feature included in the original game quite yet. Madrona Games has promised that subsequent updates will restore many of the social elements missing from the launch build. That means the friends list and guilds will be added soon. One of my favorite features from the original Battle Nations was the ability to let an ally raid resource deposits on your outpost to help them resupply materials they were low on, and it'll be great to see that collaborative gameplay make a return. Boss strikes are also on the docket for a swift return, allowing players to combine their military might to chip away at a boss enemy's health bar (and earning sweet rewards if they're able to fully defeat it). Beyond returning features, the developers plan to add "new narrative arcs, seasonal operations, time-limited events and more to keep the world of Battle Nations evolving." Madrona Games' Battle Nations Rewritten is launching on every platform that the original Battle Nations was on. That means you're able to download the game from the App Store, Google Play Store and Steam for free now.
Forbes
3 days ago
- Business
- Forbes
The Effortless LinkedIn Strategy For Entrepreneurs With No Spare Time
The effortless LinkedIn strategy for entrepreneurs with no spare time You want to grow on LinkedIn but you have no time. Other people can spend hours creating the perfect post, commenting on other people's content, optimising their profile and engaging in the DMs. But that takes ages, and you're busy running your business. Without a strategy, LinkedIn won't work for you. You'll post randomly, accept connection requests without a plan, and hope something works. It wont. You'd be better logging out all together than going half in. Go hard or go home. But find the way that fits your schedule. I quadrupled my LinkedIn following in 2024 by testing what works and doubling down hard. I stopped random posting and treated LinkedIn like a business asset optimized for conversion, not just engagement. But I did it while running a business. I did it without spending hours on LinkedIn. Most entrepreneurs waste their LinkedIn time. They check the app while they are waiting in line. They remain passive. Their follower count flatlines. Their posts get two likes and zero comments. Their dream clients scroll right past. They give up. To succeed on LinkedIn, apply the same strategic thinking to LinkedIn that runs your business operations. You need a plan, not more time. Put LinkedIn time on your calendar like you would important client meetings. Make this non-negotiable. Protect this time from distractions. This focused time prevents LinkedIn spilling into other tasks during your week and taking up way more time than it needs. Block time each week (ideally Monday) planning your content for the week ahead. Write three quality posts that showcase client results, practical methods, or industry insights. LinkedIn data shows businesses posting weekly see a twofold increase in engagement over random posters. Your followers get familiar with your regular schedule and start looking for your content. Your calendar determines your success. LinkedIn gets results when you show up consistently, not just when motivation strikes or you remember to post something. Keep a running list of post ideas as they come to you naturally. Note client questions, breakthrough moments, and results you achieve. This builds your content bank for days when inspiration runs low. Now when you sit down to work on LinkedIn, you have something to work on immediately. Develop specific post templates that work for your audience. Test different hooks, story formats, and calls to action. Track which perform best. LinkedIn posts with images receive twice the engagement rate of text-only updates. Add photos that match your message rather than stock or AI-generated images. Great posts follow patterns. Run small experiments with different formats. Pay attention to what gets engagement. Double down on wins and drop what flops. Writing hooks that grab attention can transform your LinkedIn growth when you focus on making your ideal customers care about what you share. This is how you make the time you spend on LinkedIn really count. Spend just five minutes daily commenting on posts from accounts that serve your target audience. Don't write comments an AI could have written. There's no point. Instead, add responses that demonstrate your expertise. Find 20 accounts with follower counts 2-10 times your size. Save their activity URLs in a bookmark folder for quick access. Check each morning for commenting opportunities. People who see your thoughtful comments check your profile and may follow you. Your visibility grows without creating more content. LinkedIn research shows active users who engage regularly are 51% more likely to hit their sales quotas. Five minutes of strategic commenting could generate more business than hours of random activity. Turn comments on your LinkedIn posts into brand new clients when you respond thoughtfully to everyone who engages with your content. Too many founders are adding 'post on LinkedIn' to their daily to-do list. Then before they know it, they've sunk an hour into writing one post they aren't even happy with. What a waste of life. Don't fall into this trap of average. Instead, do a bunch of things in one go. Group similar LinkedIn tasks together instead of jumping back and forth. Schedule your posts. Check your messages once a week and power through the whole lot. Respond to comments at the same time. Put your favourite concentration playlist on and make LinkedIn your mission for the next hour. You can get a tonne achieved in focused time. Context switching drains your energy and makes LinkedIn feel like a bigger time commitment than it actually is. Stay focused for the win. Create a LinkedIn system so straightforward someone else could run it for you. Document your content creation workflow, engagement strategy, and measurement process. This makes your LinkedIn presence scalable as your business grows. Set specific goals tied to business outcomes, not vanity metrics. Review performance monthly and adjust what needs changing. Apply the same analytical approach you give to other business functions. Your future self will be grateful you invested the time now. Save templates for common messages and responses. Keep snippets ready for frequent questions. Build a framework that minimizes decisions and maximizes impact. LinkedIn works when you set it up properly. Results happen through strategic planning and consistent action, not random posting and hoping for attention. Stop wasting time you don't have to spare. Smart systems get followed. Complicated plans get abandoned. Build a LinkedIn approach simple enough to maintain consistently, then stick with it long enough to see real growth. That's where the time-efficient magic happens. Your next best clients already check LinkedIn daily looking for someone to solve their problems. Position yourself as that solution while you focus on running your business. Get my personal brand prompts playbook to take your online presence to the next level.
