I’ve owned HomePods since the original big one, then gradually filled the house with HomePod minis. And all this time, I’ve wanted one very ordinary thing: let me use them as...
AI does not need to become smarter than everyone to help millions of people do things they previously couldn’t. Much of the AI debate seems caught between two questions: are...
AI can do more of our work. Are we still learning how to judge it? Malcolm Gladwell made a passing comment on Bill Maher’s show that stayed with me longer...
AI has shortened the distance between my thoughts and working software. A recent interview reminded me that explaining those thoughts still requires a deliberate shift. One reason I have enjoyed...
https://youtu.be/S18jxWZntUo https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2026/oct/06/jon-stewart-trump-ai-tech-bros “If we let them do enough unfettered capitalism, we can apparently capitalism our way to socialism,” Jon Stewart quipped about AI’s promise of universal high income. It’s a...
A billionaire investor criticizes the White House in The Wall Street Journal. A Dartmouth provost writes in The Washington Post about what students should learn to do without AI. Someone runs their columns...
Frontier labs are warning us that artificial intelligence may become uncontrollable. But if they cannot control it, they should not deploy it—and they should remain responsible when things go wrong....
Voice captures my thinking. AI helps me articulate it. I remain responsible for the result. For decades, the keyboard and mouse have defined how most of us interact with desktop...
Following on from my recent article, The Market Slowed Down. Ethereum Didn’t: Ten Signs Finance Is Moving Onchain, another significant development deserves attention. S&P Global has entered into an agreement to...
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-most-and-least-expensive-countries-to-eat-out Amazing that Japan—once the world’s second-largest economy—is now cheaper for dining out than Hong Kong, Singapore, and many other Asian destinations. One more reason to visit more often! 🇯🇵🍜
Dario Amodei’s new essay, “We Must Pace the Frontier,” makes an extraordinary argument: artificial-intelligence capabilities are advancing too quickly, safety work is falling behind, and governments and leading AI companies must coordinate...
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist begins with a deeply personal question. As filmmaker Daniel Roher prepares to become a father, he asks whether this is a terrible...
For a long time, I have wanted to reduce my dependence on Binance. That is not because I think Binance is about to disappear. It remains the dominant crypto exchange...
Crypto markets may feel bearish, but the development of blockchain-based financial infrastructure has not slowed down. Over the past few months, banks, asset managers and major fintech platforms have continued...
NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12.93 billion, bringing the dominant supplier of AI accelerators together with arguably the most important distribution and collaboration platform for open AI models....
Part three of Building the Recursive Enterprise: Businesses do not need to own every model, but they should control the data, memory and evaluation loop that make those models valuable. In Part...
Part two of Building the Recursive Enterprise: Software development has spent decades building faster feedback loops. AI can now participate in—and improve—more of that process. In Part 1 of this series, I...
I’ve been a big fan of the PICO 4 series for several years. I’ve owned the original PICO 4, the PICO 4 Pro and the PICO 4 Ultra, and I’ve...
An experimental persistent-memory workaround for letting a Director agent delegate work to a specialized Analyst Hermes Agent supports Agent-to-Agent communication through its built-in A2A plugin. This makes it possible for...
Part one of Building the Recursive Enterprise: RSI needs an upfront budget and a measurable return, but the experience gained through early adoption is itself part of that return. I recently...
A personal reflection after nearly a year of hands-on agentic development A few days ago, I caught up with Terence, my former co-founder from our startup days in Beijing. When...
Tokenized assets can improve today’s financial infrastructure. Their greater potential lies in enabling programmable markets, atomic transactions and entirely new financial products. Much of today’s discussion about blockchain in traditional...
Trump mentioned Hyperliquid in one sentence. That sentence may have revealed something important about the future of US financial infrastructure. During a recent White House meeting with financial and crypto...
What the SEC’s proposed crypto framework could teach Hong Kong about early-stage capital formation On August 18, the US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed an important new capital-formation framework for...
(Been using Claude Code and Qwen Code for most of my projects so far, but heard good things about Codex, so I am just sharing the Cheat Sheet I am...
For a while, parts of the AI community feared that Qwen might be moving away from open models. Qwen3.7 arrived as a hosted product without a comparable open-weight release, raising...
I have always been a fan of Meta AI—or Facebook AI Research, as many of us still remember it—and particularly of Yann LeCun’s work. That admiration is not based only...
Elon Musk says Grok 4.6 is “objectively number one” when intelligence, speed and cost are considered together. Its early results are impressive, but winning benchmarks is not the same as...
Some Anthropic investors reportedly believe the company could go public at a valuation of $2 trillion or more. This is not an official target from Anthropic, but it would make...
Anthropic plans to embed invisible, machine-readable watermarks into text generated by Claude. The stated purpose is transparency and compliance with the EU AI Act—not copyright enforcement. A watermark would not...
