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Julian Lim

Julian Lim is an entrepreneur, technology writer, and a researcher. He started JL Data Analysis after graduating from NUS in Intelligent Systems. Julian writes about technology innovations and entrepreneurship on Business Times, Asia Pacific Magazine and occasionally contributes to Startup Fortune.
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Banco Sabadell and Bankinter Are Joining a European Stablecoin Consortium and the Move Signals That Banks Have Stopped Watching Tokenized Money and Started Building It
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Banco Sabadell and Bankinter Are Joining a European Stablecoin Consortium and the Move Signals That Banks Have Stopped Watching Tokenized Money and Started Building It
Spain's Banco Sabadell and Bankinter are joining a European stablecoin consortium under the MiCA regulatory framework, in a move that signals established commercial banks have shifted from observing crypto-native stablecoin issuers to directly building bank-backed euro-denominated tokenized money, driven by regulatory clarity from MiCA and competitive pressure from dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC that are beginning to substitute for euro bank deposits in cross-border business payments and
A Single RTX 5000 PRO Is Running Qwen3 27B at 200k Context and 80 Tokens Per Second and That Number Should Change How Founders Think About Local Inference Economics
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A Single RTX 5000 PRO Is Running Qwen3 27B at 200k Context and 80 Tokens Per Second and That Number Should Change How Founders Think About Local Inference Economics
A LocalLLaMA post reports Qwen3 27B running FP8 quantization sustains approximately 80 tokens per second with a 200,000-token BF16 KV cache on a single NVIDIA RTX 5000 PRO 48GB GPU under standard vLLM configuration, with the result reproducible without custom kernels. The 48GB card runs near-full memory utilisation with roughly 27GB occupied by FP8 model weights and 19 to 21GB consumed by the full BF16 KV cache, and the 80 TPS decode speed is achievable due to Blackwell's approximately 960 GB/s
vLLM's Merged TurboQuant Fix for Qwen 3.5 Is a Quiet Infrastructure Update That Changes the Serving Economics for a Model Tier Founders Were Already Watching
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vLLM's Merged TurboQuant Fix for Qwen 3.5 Is a Quiet Infrastructure Update That Changes the Serving Economics for a Model Tier Founders Were Already Watching
vLLM merged a TurboQuant fix for Qwen 3.5 and later model architectures, resolving incorrect output or degraded throughput caused by the framework's quantization kernel dispatch not correctly handling Qwen 3.5's modified attention tensor layouts and MoE routing structure. The fix restores TurboQuant's full throughput advantage on NVIDIA Ampere and Hopper hardware, making Qwen 3.5 a more economically viable option for production self-hosted deployments where cost per token is the determining fact
Hyundai Is Building a Factory to Make 30,000 Atlas Robots a Year and the Fleet Economics It Needs to Justify That Bet Are the Most Important Numbers in Industrial AI
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Hyundai Is Building a Factory to Make 30,000 Atlas Robots a Year and the Fleet Economics It Needs to Justify That Bet Are the Most Important Numbers in Industrial AI
Hyundai Motor Group announced at CES 2026 that it is committing its entire 2026 Boston Dynamics Atlas production run to internal deployment at its Robotics Metaplant Application Center, is investing $26 billion in U.S. operations including a robotics factory targeting 30,000 Atlas units per year by 2028, and has structured a vertically integrated supply chain with Hyundai Mobis supplying automotive-grade actuators. All 2026 Atlas units are fully committed to Hyundai and Google DeepMind, with add
Nature Just Retracted the Most-Cited Study on ChatGPT in Education and 262 Papers Built on Its Conclusions Are Now Citing Discredited Evidence
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Nature Just Retracted the Most-Cited Study on ChatGPT in Education and 262 Papers Built on Its Conclusions Are Now Citing Discredited Evidence
Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications journal retracted a May 2025 meta-analysis claiming ChatGPT produces an effect size of 0.867 on student learning outcomes, citing undisclosed "discrepancies" that undermine the validity of the analysis, with the two authors not responding to editorial correspondence. The paper had accumulated approximately 485,000 reader accesses, 262 citations, and an Altmetric score of 767, making it the single most-cited quantitative endorsement of ChatGP
FastDMS Claims 6.4x KV Cache Compression While Running Faster Than vLLM and the Benchmark Numbers Are Credible Enough to Take Seriously
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FastDMS Claims 6.4x KV Cache Compression While Running Faster Than vLLM and the Benchmark Numbers Are Credible Enough to Take Seriously
A developer published a FastDMS reference implementation on r/LocalLLaMA on May 4, reporting 5 to 8 times less KV cache memory than vLLM BF16 at 8K context and 1.5 to 2x faster decode throughput on Llama 3.2 1B, derived from Dynamic Memory Sparsification research by a joint Nvidia, University of Warsaw, and University of Edinburgh team. The 6.4x compression with a -0.28% perplexity delta and KLD of 0.026 nats per token represents a quality tradeoff that the community considers viable for most pr
Palantir's 85% Revenue Growth and $7.65 Billion Forecast Are the Most Useful Data Points in Enterprise AI Right Now
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Palantir's 85% Revenue Growth and $7.65 Billion Forecast Are the Most Useful Data Points in Enterprise AI Right Now
Palantir reported Q1 2026 revenue of approximately $1.7 billion, 85% above the prior year and the fastest growth since its 2020 listing, with net profit nearly four times higher at $870.5 million and full-year revenue guidance raised to $7.65 billion. US government revenue grew 84% year-over-year and US commercial revenue is guided to exceed $3.144 billion for 2026, implying 115% growth, driven by AIP boot camp deployments and accelerating agency AI adoption that Karp described as unlike anythin
Long Lake Is Paying $6.3 Billion to Take Amex GBT Private and the AI Travel Thesis Behind It Is More Interesting Than the Price
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Long Lake Is Paying $6.3 Billion to Take Amex GBT Private and the AI Travel Thesis Behind It Is More Interesting Than the Price
Long Lake Management has agreed to acquire American Express Global Business Travel for $6.3 billion in an all-cash take-private deal, backed by General Catalyst, Alpha Wave, and Koch Industries' KDT division, with plans to deploy Long Lake's Nexus AI platform into the world's largest corporate travel organisation. The deal is a direct bet that AI agents handling booking optimisation, expense automation, disruption management, and policy compliance can compress costs and improve margins in a $1.4
A Drawn-On Moustache Just Fooled an Age Verification System and That Should Embarrass Every Startup Selling This Technology to Governments
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A Drawn-On Moustache Just Fooled an Age Verification System and That Should Embarrass Every Startup Selling This Technology to Governments
Research from Internet Matters found 32% of UK children have bypassed age verification measures under the Online Safety Act, with methods including fake birthdays, shared logins, VPNs, and at least one case of a 12-year-old drawing a moustache with an eyebrow pencil and being verified as 15 by facial estimation software. With one in six parents actively helping children circumvent the checks, the gap between regulatory compliance and real-world efficacy is exposing age verification startups to a
diVine Wants to Be the Short-Form Video Platform That Says No to AI and That Bet Is More Interesting Than It Sounds
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diVine Wants to Be the Short-Form Video Platform That Says No to AI and That Bet Is More Interesting Than It Sounds
Jack Dorsey's nonprofit is backing diVine, a relaunch of the six-second Vine format with a strict ban on AI-generated content enforced through Guardian Project detection tools. The app is live with 500,000 archived Vine videos and new human-verified submissions, positioning itself against the synthetic content flooding TikTok and Reels, but the creator monetisation model that killed original Vine remains unsolved.
Podslop Is Arriving Faster Than the Audio Industry Can Build Defences Against It
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Podslop Is Arriving Faster Than the Audio Industry Can Build Defences Against It
Podcast Index data shows 39% of about 10,871 new podcast feeds over nine days were likely AI-generated, with one publisher releasing 325 shows in a single day. The surge is exposing gaps in ad verification, platform discovery, and content moderation that were not built for synthetic audio at industrial scale, creating a clear build opportunity for provenance and detection startups.
WLFI and Justin Sun Are Now Suing Each Other and the Documents Are More Revealing Than Either Side Intended
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WLFI and Justin Sun Are Now Suing Each Other and the Documents Are More Revealing Than Either Side Intended
World Liberty Financial filed a defamation lawsuit against Justin Sun in Florida on Monday, two weeks after Sun sued WLFI in California federal court alleging fraud and illegal token seizure. The bilateral litigation is producing specific disclosures about covert smart contract modifications, alleged coercion, and centralised control inside a project marketed as decentralised finance.
Hyperliquid claims its prediction market topped Polymarket on day one and the details behind that claim matter more than the headline
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Hyperliquid claims its prediction market topped Polymarket on day one and the details behind that claim matter more than the headline
Hyperliquid's prediction market launch has generated claims of first-day volume exceeding Polymarket, but the comparison depends heavily on which volume metric is being measured and how much of the activity reflects genuine directional trading versus incentive harvesting from Hyperliquid's points and fee rebate structures. The more structurally interesting question is whether Hyperliquid's high-throughput order book infrastructure, built for its perpetuals exchange, gives prediction market posit
Retail facial recognition is flagging innocent shoppers as suspects and the appeals process to clear your name barely exists
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Retail facial recognition is flagging innocent shoppers as suspects and the appeals process to clear your name barely exists
The Guardian's investigation into retail facial recognition systems has highlighted a specific accountability failure: customers wrongly identified by automated watchlist tools face a murky, slow, and vendor-controlled appeals process that rarely produces timely correction. Vendors like Facewatch operate shared watchlist networks across multiple retail locations, creating scale that makes false positives a daily occurrence for some individuals, while the legal framework governing biometric data
Derrick Downey built a number one App Store hit with Claude and no coding experience and the template he used is sitting there for anyone willing to try it
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Derrick Downey built a number one App Store hit with Claude and no coding experience and the template he used is sitting there for anyone willing to try it
The Verge's profile of Derrick Downey Jr. and his DualShot Recorder app details how a non-programmer known for viral content used Claude and other AI tools to build an iPhone camera app that hit number one on Apple's paid chart within twelve hours of launch and held it for eight days at $9.99 with no subscription and no data collection. The story is less about a single creator's success than about the conditions that made it replicable: domain expertise, an existing audience with the exact probl
An Iranian attack on Amazon's Middle East data centers is a reminder that cloud infrastructure has a physical address
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An Iranian attack on Amazon's Middle East data centers is a reminder that cloud infrastructure has a physical address
Iranian drone and missile strikes have damaged Amazon Web Services facilities in the Middle East, with repairs expected to take several months and leaving affected customers with few clean options for failover. The incident exposes the gap between how cloud infrastructure is sold, as elastic and always available, and what it actually is: physical buildings in specific locations that can be damaged or destroyed. For AI startups especially, the outage is a forcing function to price geopolitical an
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