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Are Brain Waves the Next Unlock for Physical AI?
The Jenga Game That Could Change Everything The frontier of physical AI is a Jenga game in a warehouse in San Leandro, California.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Malaysia’s Data Centre Boom: Reshaping the Property Market Beyond Traditional Land Deals
Malaysia’s rapid ascent as a premier regional data centre (DC) hub is fundamentally transforming the nation’s property market. What began as a straightforward surge in demand for industrial land has evolved into a complex, high-stakes catalyst for infrastructure development, logistics expansion, and innovative real estate investment strategies.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
The Mobility Shift: Tesla’s Robotaxi Reality Check and Uber’s Shocking Bet on Its Former CEO
The intersection of artificial intelligence and transportation is entering a complex new phase. As the latest earnings season reveals, the gap between autonomous promises and on-the-ground realities is widening. Meanwhile, in a twist that would have seemed unimaginable a decade ago, former rivals are joining forces, injecting billions into the next wave of mobility and industrial automation.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
The Quiet Revolt: How Librarians Became the Unlikely Leaders of the Anti-AI Resistance
There is something quietly radical happening inside public libraries across America. Not between the shelves of dog-eared paperbacks, but in the fluorescent-lit community rooms where children's alphabet rugs still cover the floors and the Wi-Fi password for teens is scrawled on a whiteboard. In these humble spaces, librarians those perennial guardians of information are leading a movement that nobody saw coming. They are teaching people how to avoid artificial intelligence.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
The AI Restructuring Wave: Tech’s Massive Workforce Shift in 2026
Monday.com has become the latest technology company to cite artificial intelligence as a catalyst for workforce reduction. The Tel Aviv-based work management software firm announced it will lay off approximately 20% of its workforce just over 600 employees as part of a restructuring plan tied to its "AI-driven growth strategy." While co-founder Eran Zinman emphasized in a memo that the move was not designed to simply replace people with AI, but rather to adapt to a new AI-first vision, the announcement underscores a sweeping and accelerating trend across the global tech sector.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
The Grid Wasn't Ready: How a Single Downed Power Line Exposed AI Data Centers' Hidden Threat
On an otherwise ordinary day this week, a power line fell outside Washington, D.C. Under normal circumstances, the electrical grid would shrug off such an event in seconds. Instead, operators at PJM Interconnection, the nation's largest grid manager, stretching from New Jersey to Illinois, spent more than 10 minutes fighting to stabilize a system suddenly flooded with excess electricity.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
The Muted Generation: Why Countries Are Racing to Restrict Social Media for Kids
The Unusual Proposal Vietnam is weighing the most unusual version yet of the youth social media bans that are sweeping the globe. Instead of kicking kids off platforms entirely, the country wants to let them stay logged in just muted.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Iran Warned Ukraine: Is Europe Being Dragged Into a Bigger Conflict?
The Growing Risk of a Wider International Crisis The conflict between Russia and Ukraine has become one of the most significant geopolitical events of the 21st century. What began as a regional war has gradually evolved into a global issue involving military alliances, economic sanctions, energy security, and diplomatic pressure. As the conflict continues, another major player—Iran—has increasingly entered international discussions.
By Anees Khan2 months ago in 01
This tech CEO thinks AI detection has an evidence problem
Undetectable AI rewrites machine-generated text so that it reads like a person wrote it. That is the whole product, and text is the only thing it touches. TruthScan , which Christian Perry started afterward, looks for fraud in images and documents: doctored photographs, synthetic images passed off as real, fabricated receipts, forged identity paperwork.
By Vipan K.2 months ago in 01
Anthropic Launches Opus 5: A More Practical AI Model with Fewer Restrictions. AI-Generated.
Anthropic has officially introduced Opus 5 , the latest version of its flagship AI model. Although it isn't the company's largest model anymore that title belongs to Fable 5 Opus 5 is shaping up to be the more practical choice for many developers and businesses. It offers strong performance, fewer restrictions, and lower costs, making it an attractive option for a wide range of AI applications.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
India Tried To Delete Jack Dorsey's Offline Messaging App From GitHub
There's a specific kind of technical naivety in trying to shut down a decentralized messaging app by removing its source code repository, and India's government just ran directly into it.
By Mark Lim 2 months ago in 01
Moonshot AI Just Released a 2.8 Trillion‑Parameter Open‑Source Model — And It Runs on AMD GPUs
On July 27, 2026, Moonshot AI released the model weights, technical report, and three infrastructure codebases (MoonEP, FlashKDA, and AgentEnv) for Kimi K3. Below is a breakdown, based on verifiable data and public documentation, of the actual implications across four dimensions.
By Jin2 months ago in 01