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What's online about me is stuck a decade in the past. Rather than wait for someone else to update it, I'd rather define it myself. That's the reason this site exists, and it's my whole view on the idea of a "personal website."

'There''s a question I end up answering for friends and family every single quarter, right on cue with the news cycle: "Has open source finally caught up with closed source?" Lately, more than ever.'

'I have a friend who''s a university professor researching AI. He recently supervised a graduate student who, within the bounds of academic ethics, leaned heavily on AI agents to help with the research. The thesis came together smoothly — and then the student suddenly blurted out: "'

Cord-cutting is old news at this point, but cutting the cord doesn't mean people stopped watching TV — they just moved to connected TV. A recently released number out of the US TV industry is genuinely symbolic. Since late last year, streaming video's share of Americans'

Because we're a Google partner, I flew out last month for Google Cloud Next '26. I've been to my fair share of tech conferences, but this one genuinely startled me — 30,000 people crammed into

These days there's so much AI industry news I genuinely don't know where to start — but if you just look at the numbers, you get a pretty good sense of where this industry stands right now. OpenAI just closed the largest private tech funding round in history, $122 billion,

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said something at Morgan Stanley's Technology, Media & Telecom conference that set the tech world instantly ablaze — he called OpenClaw "probably the most important software release ever," full stop, no qualifiers. This wasn't some hyperbolic headline from an obscure

"Have you got a lobster yet?" These days, engineer friends ask each other that like they're all suddenly aquarium hobbyists. But the lobster in question is actually this month's biggest AI story — the "lobster robot," Moltbot.

If you write about the AI industry, the hardest part is that until the very last day of the year, you never know whether you'll actually get to do a year-end review. AI could make another giant leap on the last day and rewrite every argument you'd made. Take, for example, 2025

Bring up "Trump stocks" these days and software giant Palantir inevitably comes up. Investors in US equities know the name at least in passing — its performance in recent years has been jaw-dropping, though analysts have spent years hammering it for its sky-high P/E ratio.

AI has been running hot for years now, lifting practically every stock it touches — and when things sit at such a height, it's natural to worry about the fall. That's why roughly every six months, a fresh round of "AI bubble" debate breaks out.

Over the past three weeks I traveled through Japan and Europe, visiting several software startup accelerators — plenty worth sharing from the trip. Along the way, I made a special stop in Lithuania, a country most people rarely visit, to see its startup scene firsthand.

There's a company so old and so large that everyone forgot it's actually an AI giant too — database and data-center powerhouse Oracle. Its founder, Larry Ellison, recently saw his net worth spike to $340 billion, briefly making him the richest man in the world.

MIT recently published a report titled "The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025," claiming that 95% of companies see zero return from generative AI. The finding immediately triggered a selloff in US tech stocks.

Everyone says the AI era will produce the one-person, billion-dollar unicorn. Loosely speaking, the "solo unicorn" has already arrived.

It's been exactly 30 months since GPT launched. Now that Google has fully joined the AI race this year with a genuinely formidable Gemini, we've entered an era where AI is simply the new normal — and every small shift it brings tends to have outsized effects.

A major development just happened — Google held its I/O conference and unveiled a huge wave of progress on Gemini. The long-awaited Google "Empire Strikes Back" moment has finally arrived.

The biggest story of the past few months has probably been the tariff war, with every outlet debating its economic fallout. As it happens, the information services field I work in is one of America's great strengths — an area where the US runs a huge surplus.

Something happened recently that made AI suddenly click for everyone: GPT-4o can now generate images in the Studio Ghibli (style), and it barely needs any prompting — it nails the style with remarkable precision. For a few days, my Facebook and X feeds were completely taken over by Ghibli-style images, and even Western

Something truly shocking rocked the startup world recently: the chairman of Cubo AI, a well-known baby-monitor startup, killed the company's CTO on the spot after an exit negotiation went sour. When I saw the news, it felt like even a TV drama wouldn't

I'm finally writing about DeepSeek. Of everyone covering AI, I'm probably the last to weigh in on DeepSeek — which, as it turns out, gives me a small but genuinely useful advantage.

Every year's CES gathering is the single most important stage for vendors to show off their consumer products. This year the headline act was, of course, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's keynote — Jensen is the current top name in AI (arguably), and coverage and analysis of him are already

The big global news lately is that Syria's civil war has officially come to an end. This war raged on from 2011 all the way through the end of 2024 — long, horrific, and bloody. But after 13 years of fighting, the war ended in the closing days of 2024 in just 1

This U.S. election was truly full of twists and turns — the shooting, Biden's withdrawal, the tight race, tech mogul Elon Musk jumping in — anyone following the news knows all this well. But what's more interesting is that I happened to be in Boston on election day myself, so I got a taste of the American election's

In tech, there's exactly one person you'll never run out of things to say about — Elon Musk. But even by Musk's own standards, this October was an especially wild month for headlines.

AI large-model progress moves at a blistering pace these days, yet people seem to have gone numb to the headlines — a bit like the letdown after the moon landing. But there's one interesting new development worth flagging — OpenAI has rolled out its reasoning model, GPT-o1.

Something interesting happened recently — former Google CEO Eric Schmidt sat down for a Stanford class interview and let slip far more truth than intended (he claims he didn't know he was being recorded), so the video was briefly pulled. That kind of accidental leak got the whole

In an era of record highs for AI semiconductors, investors can't help but ask — how long will the rally last? We're sure that Jensen Huang, AI's high priest, is making money; but it's the new models trained on his chips that are AI's true substance. There's an old saying about buying the box and returning the pearl; the companies selling the box that holds the

A hot debate in software circles lately — is the AI-driven layoff wave for real? Opinions split into two camps. One says it's already happening: U.S. software engineering job postings are shrinking, a bad sign for anyone crowding into computer science

I recently took a business trip to San Francisco, the Bay Area's tech hub. This time, I was genuinely startled by the number of homeless people on the main streets — you rarely visit a place and find it lives up to its urban legend, since those stories usually get exaggerated in the telling. But San Francisco really

The US has finally confirmed it will ban TikTok. Three years ago, nobody believed this bill would ever pass — but it has now, and that says a lot about how much the world's operating logic has shifted.

I recently caught Dumb Money, the new film on Netflix about the meme-stock frenzy — and, fittingly, Reddit, the very platform where meme-stock mania was born, just went public itself.

Lately, semiconductor and AI momentum has driven a broad rally across the major stock markets.

The biggest story of the first half of this year has to be Apple's Vision Pro launch. Virtual and augmented reality have been hot topics for years, but once this Vision Pro headset went live this year, it essentially redefined

A video has been going viral lately — Stanford University and Google DeepMind's "ALOHA" robot system, which is really just two arms mounted on a self-moving wheeled base. But those two hands can pick up pots, crack eggs,

The much-watched OpenAI boardroom drama has wrapped up, with things nearly back to where they started. ChatGPT just turned one, so it's a good moment to take stock of the AI industry a year into its explosive growth.

AI has progressed to the point where it's honestly hard to know what to say anymore. The most stunning development was OpenAI's early-November event, followed almost immediately by the firing of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (as of this writing, he'd already been

The world's best biographer is Walter Isaacson, the man behind Steve Jobs. He's just published another monumental work — Musk. Isaacson says hardly anyone gets a biography written while still young and at the peak of their powers the way Musk has — after all, when Jobs first came to him it was because

The biggest news lately in Taiwan's domestic internet sector is that both Chunghwa Telecom and Taiwan Mobile have decided to invest in KKBOX, merging Taiwan Mobile's own music platform MyMusic into KKBOX — a sign that the two telecom giants are no longer going to run their own

After OpenAI burst onto the scene, plenty of commentators wondered whether traditional tech giants were about to be disrupted. But in my last column(https://www.wealth.com.tw/articles/82

There's been no shortage of drama in the social media industry lately. Facebook launched Threads, a Twitter look-alike, which unexpectedly prompted Twitter owner Elon Musk to declare it a knockoff and challenge Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to a literal cage match. The fight is now officially on, so

The AI boom has been in full swing for more than half a year now. Experts keep insisting the robots are coming for our jobs any day, but happily, most of us are still gainfully employed. What's been more interesting these past six months is that, contrary to the doom-and-gloom predictions, a whole new category of "AI assistant" gigs has sprung up instead.

Now that this wave of AI-revolution mania has pushed Nvidia's market cap past $1 trillion, Nvidia is no longer just the company that gaming nerds like me know from buying graphics cards. Its CEO, Jensen Huang, has become a bona fide celebrity — showing up on the evening news, and soon enough there'll be a flood of "Jensen Huang quotes" circulating, entrepreneurship wisdom and life lessons he may or may not have actually

The AI revolution driven by large language models is going to change humanity as much as the smartphone did — maybe more. After the carpet-bombing of AI news from March through early April, some very preliminary observations are starting to emerge about what comes next, and where the investment opportunities might

AI moved so fast this March that everyone caught a bad case of FOMO. Honestly, not catching it would have been impossible. In the past month we got Microsoft AI-ifying its entire product lineup (you can imagine this is hell for white-collar workers

AI was already a huge deal last year, but this year it's gotten even more staggering — between one column and the next, the era has updated at a breakneck pace. When it comes to writing about the AI revolution, AI itself can probably do a better job than I can.

If you've been paying attention, you'll have noticed that articles and content about ChatGPT have been piling up faster than anyone can read (and I wouldn't rule out that some of it was written by ChatGPT itself). There's simply too much ground to cover in a single piece.

There's a famous story about the Gordian Knot — Alexander the Great came across a knot in a certain city said to be absolutely unsolvable, with no visible end at all, harder to untangle than your iPhone earbuds, and whoever managed to undo it was destined to rule all of Asia.

"Write me an opening paragraph introducing ChatGPT." That's literally how this column begins — with a prompt.

I happened to be in Silicon Valley when Facebook and Twitter announced mass layoffs — it felt like standing at the epicenter of an earthquake, made more vivid by personally knowing some of the people affected, all while Tesla CEO Elon Musk's daily reality show of taking over Twitter played out in real time.

Great news for business people who've struggled with English — Facebook has managed to build fluent English-Hokkien translation. They call it Hokkien, but given the engineers behind it are Taiwanese, you can basically read it as a Taiwanese (Taigi) translator.

Taiwan's mobile-payment wars have flared up again, with one provider planning to spend NT$500 million on a subsidy blitz and rivals vowing to fight just as hard. Few businesses willingly lose money — so why are payment providers so determined to go all-in?

COVID is arguably the single event with the biggest impact on human behavior since World War II — reshaping habits and spinning off curious little trends. Remote work, video conferencing, and telemedicine are the obvious ones, but once something becomes common knowledge, there's not much money left in it.

Big news in tech recently — Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk had agreed to buy Twitter, the world's second-largest social network (announced, naturally, on Twitter itself), only to walk away from the deal as market conditions soured, and get promptly sued for it.