Google Gemini – make your own pointless selfie
You know that I cannot stand seeing pointless selfies on LinkedIn. The irony is that I know how to create nice-looking ones. Here’s how you…
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Newsletter 39 – Write your own user manual
In this week’s newsletter, I talk about how I wrestled with early technology over 25 years ago and how that hasn’t really changed today with…
Using Google AI Studio
I vibe-coded a new app this week – it takes any photo and turns it into a pixelated visual akin to those from the 1980s…
Gemini Nano Banana
Google Gemini now includes the latest imaging engine nicknamed “nano-banana” and it’s designed for image editing. To test it, I gave it my classic “Give…
CNA Commentary: How should parents approach Gen AI?
In my latest commentary for CNA, I write about the three things that parents need to arm themselves with in the age of Gen AI:…
Claude, MCP and Qwen
The LLM Claude cannot generate images by itself, but it can tap on external tools to do so. Today, I tried out the Qwen and…
Newsletter 38 – The filters of our reality
In this week’s newsletter, I write about how our reality has become filtered by other people. And apart from sharing my recent posts, I am…
Newsletter 37 – You can’t automate interest
In this week’s newsletter, I discuss the problem of fully-automated content, and I share the many posts I have written since the last newsletter a…
Reading the Romance of Three Kingdoms
To cater to the growing Chinese market in Singapore, I’m rolling out a Mandarin edition of my Generative AI fundamentals workshop in coming months. To…
Google Gemini – Text to Cloned Voice
I created a new app with Google Gemini called the “Monk’s Insight Generator” – it takes a news story (or any piece of content) and…
AI literacy – July 2025 definition
I’m speaking to corporate leaders later this week about strategic approaches to AI in business. This is one of my slides where I’ve further refined…
GO-FAR 2025 kickoff
Yesterday, we kicked off GO-FAR 2025 (Going Overseas For Advanced Reporting), the annual highlight of our journalism training at the Wee Kim Wee School of…