A Venture Firm Build for Cycles, not Headlines. In the latest episode of @analyse.asia #podcast, I sat down with Beatrice Lion, CEO of True Global Ventures in Poddster Singapore to unpack why getting the CMS licence from MAS is more than a badge—it’s a strategy: youtu.be/-BwbRRnmGgU

On a Friday night, watched the movie The Thursday Murder Club on @netflix.com based on a novel of the same name by Richard Osman. Turned out to be a great detective story with twists and turns while the main characters are coping with old age and the people around them. Worth a watch!

💡 Economics models don’t explain Asia. History does. youtu.be/lNfTN1Zx6CQ In my latest @analyseasia podcast conversation with Assoc Professor Jamus Lim from ESSEC Business School on his book "Asian Economies: History, Institutions and Structures" #AsianEconomies

Celebrating Singapore #SG60 today with my family after 60 years of Independence. To fellow Singaporeans, have a Happy National Day 2025. #Singapore

@OpenAI Open models - Introducing gpt-oss openai.com/index/introd... Hugging Face: huggingface.co/openai/gpt-o...

Persona vectors: Monitoring and controlling character traits in language models www.anthropic.com/research/per... via @anthropic.com

“What does it take to build a global research powerhouse that balances bold ideas & global impact?” That was the question I explored with Doug Burger, Technical Fellow & Corporate VP at Microsoft Research in an intellectually rich conversations I’ve had on @analyseasia #podcast: youtu.be/iDpye0Vawwk

One should consider a different perspective on how #China and US AI builders are thinking about the AI race, and take a completely different POV by Grace Shao from AI Proem: aiproem.substack.com/p/china-and-...

A strange irony here: Meta might have pioneered the Open-Source LLM models but now it is the only one while the Chinese open source LLMs such Deepseek, Kimi, Alibaba's Qwen, MiniMax are now dominating the table: artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards... #AI

Enjoyed the #FantasticFour First Steps as the latest addition to Marvel Cinematic Universe. As a die hard fan, other than bringing Galactus to life, the major deal to seal the fans is to bring Franklin Richards into the MCU. Of course, the surprise is Pedro Pascal as Reed.

#Sandman Season 2 has been a blast starting for the first half with both my favourite volumes: Book 4 - Season of Mists and Book 7: Brief Lives, and the depiction of my favourite endless: Destruction is spot on! Loved the show even though it is going to be 2 seasons!

On the latest @analyseasia podcast, I had the privilege of chatting with @PatrickMcGee_ , the insightful author behind "Apple in China: The Capture of the World’s Greatest Company." youtu.be/TPJ2e-fKTg4 #AppleinChina #supplychain

Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again) youtube.com/watch?v=LCEm... - A POV on where we are heading with #AI in software development

Completed reading "Apple in China" by Patrick McGee, where my interpretation is that it tells the history of contract manufacturing from Apple's POV. Highly recommend the book, and one more thing, Patrick will be coming to @analyse.asia #podcast as a guest. :) Read his book: appleinchina.com

My conversation with @mohanbelani from @e27.co and Orvel Ventures on his reflections over the #startup and #venturecapital ecosystem in the past decade and how he is thinking about investing in startups within the region with a contrarian thesis via @analyseasia #podcast youtu.be/RtJmBnxaWyM

Mary Meeker's Trends in Artificial Intelligence #AI www.bondcap.com/reports/tai

Never dawn on me how tall & majestic this building is before going up - Burj Khalifa in #Dubai

On the highest floor of Burj Khalifa and looking at the vast landscape of #Dubai and enjoy the sunset there.

🇸🇬 The #GE2025 outcome was in after 9 days of vigorous debate. Regardless of political leanings, let's remember: our strength lies in unity. It's time to focus on shared goals and build a stronger #Singapore together.

Watched #Thunderbolts last Wednesday—easily one of the stronger MCU entries. Its focus on mental health and second chances makes the characters more relatable. Feels like a standalone film, yet still sets up the next two movies. Really solid, awesome watch.

“The measure of a person is the congruence between their words and actions, their kindness, their confidence, and their decisiveness about who they are in the world and who they intend to remain.” - Peter Cundill

A big thank you to those who are working in the polling stations for #GE2025. I have voted and it was a seamless experience within 5 minutes in #Singapore.

Politicians often fight the current battle like the last one, relying on past success. What they miss is that circumstances change. The majority of eligible voters (including mine) this time in #Singapore don’t respond well to threats. #GE2025 (see graph below)

Observing the #GE2025 in #Singapore, I am curious about how many people watched the rallies via 1 channel: YouTube and I take a snapshot at 5 am 26 April to see how all the rallies posted on 2 channels: @CNA and @straits_times

Life is so much simpler with the #GE2025 expressed in one diagram via @ChannelNewsAsia - Now I know which political party is contesting where. #Singapore

The only silver lining to the global tariff wars: #Bitcoin, #Ethereum and other #cryptocurrencies decoupling from the S&P 500 and tech stocks. But whether this is long term, remains to be seen.

We want to introduce our sister podcast, Augment AI podcast focusing on AI globally, helmed by Ayesha Khanna and our host @bernardleong.bsky.social and we have started the first episodes on YouTube. Do subscribe to their new podcast: www.youtube.com/@AugmentPodc...

Pope Francis dies aged 88 on.ft.com/42JdDsN - RIP the most enlightened Pope for we thank you for being a great moral compass

Every time someone asks me whether AGI has arrived, I just say, 'I'll know it when I see it.' Spoiler: Still waiting. 🙄

A-Players with #AI will hire A-Players, B, C and D-players will be replaced by AI agents.

Someone should start a Polymarket bet on who would call who first for world leaders in the world and of course, it will be US to any country, for example, China.

If AI is a true paradigm shift, then OpenAI building a social network from scratch isn’t surprising—it’s inevitable.

"In warfare men are nothing, a man is everything." - Napoleon

Just released! our host @bernardleong.bsky.social's latest conversation with Patrick Kelly, Senior Director at Databricks delivers game-changing insights on #enterpriseAI adoption across the region. youtu.be/V-69IwK5WKc

Two things puzzles me: the Universe according to the laws of physics and human stupidity specifically when someone causes a global market crash with a self-inflicted wound.

I followed Scott Alexander with his blog: Astral Codex Ten and just realized that he has teamed up with Daniel Kokotajlo, Thomas Larsen, Eli Lifland and Romeo Dean to come up with a forecast of how #AI will evolve towards 2027, with two scenarios: slowdown or race. Read the website ai-2027.com

I was telling someone that I am only planning a $30K buy for #BTC and it looks like my optimism is well-justified. :)

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome - Albert Einstein and it’s what the markets look like now. :)

In the midst of chaos, the best thing to do is to do nothing and wait. Once the dust settles, take action and move forward.

Model Context Protocol - MCP - It's Hot, But Will It Win? hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/230-mcp-it... via @stevesi #MCP

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model www.anthropic.com/research/tra... via @AnthropicAI

Just released! Our host @bernardleong.bsky.social have a conversation with @lionelbarber.bsky.social, the former editor of the Financial Times and author of "Gambling Man: The Secret Story of the World's Greatest Disruptor, Masayoshi Son." Watch the full YouTube Video: youtu.be/ibLTaS1obRw

Fresh out of the studio, our host @bernardleong.bsky.social had a conversation with Mark Reinecke, SVP of Top Executive Management & Talent Acquisition at #Airbus on his approach to global talent management youtu.be/alhU3D4PqFk

Hate to say this: the best way narrative for #eth is that it is a 3% risk free premium bond and they just need to say it over and over again. #cryptocurrency

Just launched the inaugural episode of the Augment AI #podcast with Ayesha Khanna and this centres on #AI globally and what better way to start with Benedict Evans on his thesis that #AI is eating the world: youtu.be/hQy8cNt_g38?...

LiSA's "ReawakeR" (feat. Felix of Stray Kids), also the main theme for #sololevelling is shaping to be my top song of the year in Spotify: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe4X...

There are days I wonder whether the crypto traders from SBF with FTX collapse to Hayden Davis in #LibraGate are a bunch of psychopaths and go to media outlets and explain the outrageous stuff they have done.

My recent interview with Sue-Lin Wong, host of the Scam Inc series from @economist.com via @analyseasia.bsky.social #podcast youtu.be/R-pRWP4jGvA

Don’t buy your own ‘koyok’: why we must reform primary education www.jom.media/dont-buy-you... #Singapore - Interesting proposals given that I have 3 children going thru the system but I doubt @MOEsg will even bother to look at them.

#CaptainAmericaBraveNewWorld surprised me as a great movie & the score by critics from Rotten Tomatoes does not match with what I saw in the movie. Harrison Ford and Anthony Mackie were great in the show. For me, it was worthwhile to watch on Valentine's Day with my wife.