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:…
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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…
Benjamin Zander – Escaping the downward spiral
Conductor and teacher Benjamin Zander recently gave a great interview to Zsolt Bognár on “The Art of Possibility” (also a great book). Here’s an excerpt…
Newsletter 36 – Remember Rule No. 6
In this week’s newsletter, I talk about why we need to stop taking ourselves so seriously, and recap my posts on “The Agency of You”…
Google Veo 3 – Optimus Appleus
Google Veo 3: I walked past the bowl of apples in my living room and thought, “Hmm, maybe I should animate one of them.” So…
Google Veo 3 – Walking Cats
Google Gemini now allows you to upload an image and animate it with the Google Veo 3 engine. I uploaded a photo of cat drawings…