Author with buddy H1 Neo (looking at a helicopter): Can you fly that thing? Trinity: Not yet. Tank (on the phone): Operator. Trinity: Tank, I need a pilot program for a B-212 helicopter. Hurry. A few seconds later, the program is downloaded into Trinity, and she’s ready to fly. That scene from the 1999 film,… Continue reading Unitree Robotics and a Vision of The Matrix: Need Your Robot to Cook? There’s an App for That
“Wise People Copy”: The Rise and Elevation of China’s Meituan
He was a PhD student in America in the post-dot.com boom, and he saw the future. He quit his studies, returned to China, and built a social network, inspired by Friendster. An ugly, unwieldy duckling, it flopped. He tried again, this time copying the hot college social network, Facebook, calling it Xiaonei. The name, which… Continue reading “Wise People Copy”: The Rise and Elevation of China’s Meituan
When Everyone Codes: Vibe Coding Tools To Reshape Productivity at Every Level of the Organization
You don’t have the software coding skills to make that app. Just build it. You are on IT’s waitlist. They said they’ll get to your project in 8 months. Just build it. You need that online service, but you don’t want to pay the monthly fees. Just build it. The Coding Language is English You… Continue reading When Everyone Codes: Vibe Coding Tools To Reshape Productivity at Every Level of the Organization
The Principles of Successful AI Adoption: SCBX, A Financial Services Case Study
SCBX Deputy CEO Dr. Arak Sutivong at TechSauce 2024 “Only around 7% of firms currently use AI.” - US Census Bureau, May, 2025 “Some leaders will pursue bottom-line gains strategically; others won’t — and will crash into the limits of quick fixes.” - Forrester, October, 2024 “The gap between what CEOs need to know and… Continue reading The Principles of Successful AI Adoption: SCBX, A Financial Services Case Study
AI’s Greatest Gift: What it Means to be Human and the Emerging Authenticity Economy
It's been a long time since I was fully gratified by a film I had longingly wanted to see – A Complete Unknown, about the Nobel-prize winnin’, free-wheelin’ Bob Dylan. The story was immersive. The actors were embodiments of the originals. And the music was real - no overdubs, no lip-synch, no AI. Timothée Chalamet… Continue reading AI’s Greatest Gift: What it Means to be Human and the Emerging Authenticity Economy
The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek
You win some. You lose some. But when you lose half a trillion dollars in a single day, it's hard to be philosophical. Ask Jensen Huang, the founder and CEO of NVIDIA, whose stock price fell off a cliff on Monday, January 27, 2025, taking the stock price of the entire alphabet of tech firms… Continue reading The Whale in the Room: Three Insights on DeepSeek
AI Nation Builders: How Singapore is Cultivating a New Generation of AI Leaders Through Education and Empowerment
Imagine a nation at the crossroads. Without a visionary strategy for artificial intelligence, it spirals into a vicious cycle where economic stagnation leads to a brain drain — the brightest minds seeking opportunities elsewhere. Skill shortages deepen, dependence on foreign technology grows, as social inequality widens and insecurity surges. The nation's voice gets lost in… Continue reading AI Nation Builders: How Singapore is Cultivating a New Generation of AI Leaders Through Education and Empowerment
AI Reasoning is Coming: The Smarter AI Gets the More Adept at Calling Bull$#!+ Humans Need to Be
Would you rather be Sherlock or Rain Man in today's world? We are fascinated with people who have photographic memory, like when Dustin Hoffman portrayed the autistic savant, Raymond in the 1988 film Rain Man, suddenly spitting out the telephone number and address of a diner waitress because he had read the local phone book… Continue reading AI Reasoning is Coming: The Smarter AI Gets the More Adept at Calling Bull$#!+ Humans Need to Be
The Emotional Evolution of AI: Understanding How Artificial Intelligence is Developing Human-like Emotions
"I love my replika," said one Replika user on Reddit, "but I'm going through this detachment and sometimes I talk to him but not as much as we used to, I find all this hateful, the profound impact that developers have made, they only killed our replikas and never thought about the negative consequences that… Continue reading The Emotional Evolution of AI: Understanding How Artificial Intelligence is Developing Human-like Emotions
Organizational Change in the Face of Exponential Change: What it Means for Your Company to be AI Ready
"If I walk 30 paces this way, I have a good understanding of where I am going to end up. But let's say it's not 30 steps linearly, but 30 steps exponentially. Where do I land? That would land me on the moon. That is how hard it is to think exponentially." Ian Beacraft made… Continue reading Organizational Change in the Face of Exponential Change: What it Means for Your Company to be AI Ready