Category: Business

  • Looking back, this year began not with fireworks, as usual, but with a golden sunrise at Annapurna Base Camp, 4,130 meters above sea level in Nepal. After three strenuous days of trekking, reaching the base camp felt like a quiet achievement, especially with minimal acclimatization. There is a saying: to truly know yourself, climb a…

  • Donald Trump says a lot when he goes off script—maybe too much for his own good. His recent speech in the Knesset and the bizarre circus at Sham al-Shaykh laid bare not just his foreign policy vision, but the raw mechanics of power, patronage, and performance that define it. There, amid what was billed as…

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  • A research breakthrough from Samsung’s SAIL Montréal is challenging the core assumption that more powerful AI requires more parameters. Led by Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau, the team has released the Tiny Recursive Model (TRM), an open-source model that dramatically outperforms both massive LLMs and the previously state-of-the-art Hierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) on hard puzzle and reasoning benchmarks,…

  • If you’re building products with Large Language Models (LLMs), you’ve likely encountered their biggest limitation: their knowledge is static, frozen at the point of their training. To solve this, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has become a go-to solution, enabling dynamic access to external knowledge. But what if your application needs more than just accurate retrieval? What…

  • Historically, successful businesses thrived by identifying unmet customer needs and delivering solutions—a classic market-pull strategy. Today’s startup ecosystem, however, often operates in reverse: a market-push model where founders and investors flood the market with products and services, sometimes even before validating whether a real problem even exists. Fueled by abundant venture capital, low interest rates,…

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  • According to World Bank data, 8.5% of the world’s population—roughly 700 million people—still lives on less than $2.15 per day. A quarter of humanity, or about 2 billion people, survives on less than $3.65 per day. With the global population now exceeding 8.2 billion, these numbers expose a world of staggering inequality. The poorest half…

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  • In recent years, AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Grok, Qwen, Claude, and DeepSeek have become deeply integrated into everyday life. Whether for content creation, career advice, life coaching, medical queries, or business strategies, these tools are increasingly regarded as reliable sources of guidance—almost like modern-day oracles. Their responses, often delivered with fluency, confidence, and remarkable…

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  • People don’t usually fail because of bad decisions, they fail because of the unquestioned assumptions behind those decisions. It’s not what we don’t know that causes failure, but rather what we believe to be true without ever examining. This is where a mentor or even a thoughtful critic can play a vital role. They don’t…

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  • My recent journey through China, making it my thirty-ninth country to visit, a long-awaited addition to my travel bucket list, provided a compelling case study for understanding modern development. The trip began in the bustling industrial heartland of Guangzhou, continued through the futuristic streets of Shenzhen, included a transit flight via Shanghai, and concluded in…

  • In recent years, generative AI has taken the world by storm. However, as powerful as these AI systems are, their capabilities can be significantly enhanced by incorporating external data. This is where vector embeddings and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) come into play. What Are Vector Embeddings? At their core, vector embeddings are numerical representations of objects…

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