Thailand Allows Crypto as Derivatives Underlying — Institutional Flows, XRP & AI Agents
Thailand’s crypto rule change, XRP price moves, and why AI agents are suddenly the market’s magnet TL;DR Thailand’s finance ministry cleared a proposal allowing digital assets to be used as the underlying asset in futures, options and other derivatives—formal SEC rule changes are next. This opens a legal path for institutional products but requires custody, […]
Smart TV Tune-Up: 13 Quick Tweaks to Improve Picture Quality, Speed and Privacy
Make Your Smart TV Smarter: 13 Tweaks for Better Picture, Speed & Privacy Smart TVs are no longer just displays. They run apps, background services, and maintain network connections — essentially, they’re computers with big screens. That power brings more features, but also slower menus, more tracking, and picture presets that favour “wow” over accuracy. […]
Why iPhone Lockdown Mode Matters: A CISO’s Guide to High‑Risk Users, MDM & Forensics
iPhone Lockdown Mode: What CISOs and high‑risk users need to know When the stakes are high, convenience becomes a liability. iPhone Lockdown Mode is an “all‑hands‑fortify‑the‑device” setting that trades features for much stronger resistance to targeted spyware and data extraction. A recent court filing reported by major outlets noted FBI agents could not extract data […]
C-Suite Playbook: Vendor Governance for AI Agents, Federal Leases, and Ethics Risk
When Leases, Ethics, and AI Agents Collide: A C‑Suite Playbook TL;DR: Three recent threads — a quiet federal push for ICE leases, renewed employee activism at Palantir, and viral consumer AI agents that get deep system access — reveal the same structural risk: organizations and vendors are being asked to share physical space, data, and […]
Codex‑Spark: 15× faster real‑time coding with GPT‑5.3 — test suites still mandatory
Codex‑Spark: real‑time coding at 15× the speed — and why your test suite still matters TL;DR Codex‑Spark is a latency‑first variant of GPT‑5.3‑Codex built for conversational coding and instant edits. OpenAI says Spark can be up to ~15× faster for interactive code tasks by cutting roundtrip and per‑token overhead and using session streaming; it runs […]
Aletheia (DeepMind): AI Agents Achieve Research Wins – Verification Is the Real Bottleneck
Aletheia: When an AI Finds a Counterexample — and Then Invents Its Own Problems (Lessons for AI agents and AI for business) TL;DR: DeepMind’s Aletheia — an AI research assistant built on Gemini Deep Think — can occasionally produce genuine research-level wins (autonomous papers, a counterexample to a decade-old conjecture, and a cryptography bug) but […]
Twelve South Power Capsule Review: Pocketable MagSafe Power Bank for Business Travel
Twelve South Power Capsule review: A MagSafe power bank built for travel and pockets TL;DR: Twelve South’s Power Capsule is a stylish, pocketable MagSafe power bank designed for short trips and daily top-ups — pick the 5,000mAh for the thinnest carry or the 10,000mAh for more real-world charges. At-a-glance specs Models / price: 5,000mAh — […]
Artmarket.com (Artprice) Scales Vertical AI: Provenance-First RAG, 18M Embeddings, Onprem Compute
TL;DR Artmarket.com (Artprice) rolled its Intuitive Artmarket AI into core workflows in 2025 and reports faster analytics, lower headcount and richer product offerings—claims based on decades of curated auction data and company‑reported metrics. Key differentiators: a provenance-first Retrieval‑Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture, 18 million tokenized artworks (embeddings), 180 proprietary databases, and a push for on‑prem, decentralized […]
Why Nigerians Turn to AI Chatbots for Mental Health: Access, Risks and Executive Checklist
Why Nigerians are turning to AI chatbots for emotional care Executive summary: AI chatbots and simple digital platforms are scaling low-cost, anonymous mental-health support in Nigeria where psychiatrists are scarce, therapy is expensive, and stigma keeps many people from seeking help. These tools provide immediate coping support, mood tracking and referrals, but they raise real […]
Apple Watch Ultra 2: Enterprise Pilot Worth It? On-Device ML, eSIM, Offline Maps
Why the Apple Watch Ultra 2 still earns a place on your wrist — and in your enterprise pilot plan TL;DR / Key takeaways Best first-time Ultra: Apple Watch Ultra 2 is the most complete flagship sports watch Apple has shipped — rugged titanium, sapphire glass, brighter 3,000‑nits display, S9 processor, and doubled storage. Not […]