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May 2025

We might have reached AGI
And we'll never know — it won't arrive with an “aha”
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Jia Wei Ng
99 to 1
Why progress is often invisible
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Jia Wei Ng
Valve brain chip rolling out this year
Apple Chief Designer joins OpenAI, Claude 4 blackmails engineer, Copilot, Edit & WSL open source, v0 model, text diffusion model from Google and $5k AI…
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Jia Wei Ng
Be a 10 at One Thing
The power of focus in a world of noise
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Jia Wei Ng
LLMs have a hidden motive
An unexpected new database, Airbnb now offers more services & self evolving intelligence.
 • 
Jia Wei Ng
Progress not perfection
Life is a numbers game.
 • 
Jia Wei Ng
I used to hate reading.. here's how I changed that (part 2)
The long awaited second part of the series.
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Jia Wei Ng
LLMs are actually braindead
AI learns while sleeping, social network for AI, Apple's dethroned, secret book of knowledge, AI works but we don't know why, OpenAI abandons profit, o3…
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Jia Wei Ng
Humans are actually just LLMs
World's largest $1m hackathon, WhatsApp suspicious privacy policy, OpenAI acquiring Windsurf for $3b, MCP poisoning, universal memory & Gemini 2.5 Pro…
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Jia Wei Ng
Selling without selling
“The best marketing doesn’t feel like marketing.” – Tom Fishburne
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Jia Wei Ng
The best ideas are wrong at first
Contrarian hypotheses and how to spot the good kind
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Jia Wei Ng
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