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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Julian Lim · Apr 18, 2026 · 10:14 PM

Warsh Fed Nomination Signals Rate Cut Pivot With High Stakes

Trump's nomination of Kevin Warsh for Fed chair aims to force rate cuts that could boost crypto and risk assets, but Senate opposition and sticky inflation could derail that timeline.

Julian Lim · Apr 18, 2026 · 9:36 PM

Bitcoin's next move may not wait for you to get comfortable

Bitcoin's exchange-held supply has dropped to multi-year lows as ETF accumulation and long-term holder behavior drain the tradeable float. Analysts warn that the resulting supply shock could trigger a near-vertical price move that leaves little opportunity for sidelined investors to enter. The dip-buying playbook that defined previous cycles may be poorly suited to a market this structurally illiquid.

Julian Lim · Apr 18, 2026 · 8:45 PM

Lebanon Enforces Ceasefire as Middle East Stability Returns to Focus for Markets

Lebanon's military arrests for celebratory gunfire signal serious commitment to the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire. For investors, enforcement matters more than diplomatic statements.

Julian Lim · Apr 18, 2026 · 7:14 PM

A Perfect Storm Is Brewing for Stocks Around May 15

A convergence of massive options expirations, sticky inflation, and Middle East escalation around May 15 could trigger severe stock market volatility. Investors should prepare for a potential VIX spike.

Julian Lim · Apr 18, 2026 · 5:44 PM

Liz Truss Backs Bitcoin as UK Economy Faces 'Very Negative Trajectory'

Liz Truss endorsed Bitcoin at the CPAC UK launch, framing crypto as essential protection against state overreach while warning the UK economy is in steep decline.

Julian Lim · Apr 18, 2026 · 4:56 PM

A Google DeepMind scientist says LLMs will never be conscious and calls the assumption a fundamental fallacy

Google DeepMind Senior Scientist Alexander Lerchner has publicly argued that large language models are architecturally incapable of achieving consciousness, introducing the term 'Abstraction Fallacy' to describe the industry's conflation of statistical pattern matching with genuine sentience. The claim represents a rare fracture within AI leadership and carries direct implications for how the sector is valued and regulated.

Julian Lim · Apr 18, 2026 · 4:14 PM

Israel's Lebanon Buffer Zone Push Tests Fragile Ceasefire

Israeli demolitions in southern Lebanon are reshaping the battlefield during a fragile ceasefire, raising humanitarian and economic stakes across the region.

Julian Lim · Apr 17, 2026 · 8:37 PM

AI is making companies richer and workers poorer and the math on who buys anything next does not add up

Q1 2026 earnings data shows U.S. productivity surging 6.2% while wages grew just 0.8%, reigniting fears that AI-driven automation is decoupling corporate profit from the consumer purchasing power needed to sustain it. With economists estimating job displacement of up to 1% per quarter and no credible redistribution mechanism in place, the loop problem is shifting from philosophical debate to concrete financial risk. The companies winning on automation may be systematically undermining the custom

Julian Lim · Apr 17, 2026 · 1:47 PM

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 launch has triggered a wave of community backlash that may be entirely justified

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7 has triggered sharp community backlash over a tokenizer change that effectively raises costs by up to 35%, a dramatic drop in long-context benchmark performance, Claude Code falsely flagging benign code as malware, and the removal of user-controlled Extended Thinking. Critics also accuse Anthropic of distracting from 4.7's shortcomings by including its unreleased Mythos model in benchmark charts.

Julian Lim · Apr 17, 2026 · 9:15 AM

Stanford's AI Index Finds China Has Nearly Closed the Gap With America and the Pipeline of Talent Flowing West Is Drying Up

Stanford's Human-Centered AI institute finds China has matched the U.S. in top-cited AI research output and leads on patent citations, while the flow of elite researchers into American institutions is declining. The report signals an end to unchallenged U.S. AI dominance and a drift toward two parallel, non-interoperable AI ecosystems shaped by geopolitics and competing national priorities.

Julian Lim · Apr 17, 2026 · 5:20 AM

Pawn shops selling gold and silver at spot price are quietly signaling something important about the 2026 metals market

Retail investors are finding physical gold and silver at or near spot price in local pawn shops, a rare compression of dealer margins that signals both opportunity for buyers and stress in the secondhand supply chain. The trend reflects a surge of consumer liquidations flowing through brick-and-mortar retailers who need to move inventory faster than standard premiums allow. It's a narrow window, and what comes next will depend on whether retail demand recovers before dealers regain their pricing

Julian Lim · Apr 17, 2026 · 3:20 AM

A Chinese professor claiming Bitcoin is a CIA surveillance tool just wiped 12% off its price in minutes

Former Tsinghua professor Liang Jiang, now in Swiss asylum, released a 120-page report alleging Bitcoin was built as a CIA surveillance tool called 'Project Tungsten,' sending BTC down 12.4% in minutes. Cryptographers have challenged the report for lacking raw proof, but markets have already responded by rotating into privacy coins like Monero and Zcash. The story's staying power depends entirely on whether a credible technical audit materializes.

Julian Lim · Apr 17, 2026 · 12:21 AM

Taiwan's stock market surpasses the UK's total value as TSMC posts record profits and AI chip demand reshapes global finance

Taiwan's stock market has overtaken the UK's in total value, reaching $4.13 trillion against the UK's $4.09 trillion, according to Bloomberg data. The crossover reflects record profits at TSMC and the surging demand for AI chips driving investment into Taiwanese equities. The milestone raises pointed questions about market concentration, geopolitical risk, and the UK's declining share of global capital flows.

Julian Lim · Apr 16, 2026 · 11:01 PM

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7 and makes its strongest case yet for owning the enterprise AI market

Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7 on April 16, claiming it is the most capable general-purpose AI model available to the public. The release targets enterprise adoption with a 25% reduction in hallucinations and near-perfect accuracy across 500,000-token contexts, positioning Anthropic as the reliability-focused alternative to OpenAI in a narrowing high-end market.

Julian Lim · Apr 16, 2026 · 8:31 PM

Asian stocks climb as investors bet U.S.-Iran diplomacy will keep oil lanes open

Asian equities climbed Thursday tracking a U.S. tech stock surge, as investors bet on a U.S.-Iran deal that could reopen the Strait of Hormuz and ease global energy uncertainty. A cease-fire between Washington and Tehran expires next week, with regional mediators pushing for an extension and a second round of talks, though progress remains slow. The rally reflects how deeply geopolitical risk now shapes capital flows into AI and technology sectors.

Julian Lim · Apr 16, 2026 · 5:01 PM

Apple and Google are still promoting nudify apps to children three months after the problem was first exposed

A new report from the Tech Transparency Project finds that nudify apps generating explicit imagery of real people are still live on the iOS App Store and Google Play , and are being actively promoted, including to children with an 'E for Everyone' rating. Both Apple and Google have policies prohibiting such content, but enforcement has not followed. The findings arrive as lawmakers in the US and UK are moving toward stronger platform accountability rules around non-consensual intimate imagery.