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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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The New York Stock Exchange owner is betting that tokenized finance needs a political fixer as much as it needs a tech stack
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The New York Stock Exchange owner is betting that tokenized finance needs a political fixer as much as it needs a tech stack
Intercontinental Exchange and OKX launched a 50-50 joint venture on June 22 to tokenize NYSE equities and offer crypto futures under a regulated US broker-dealer. Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who previously advised OKX through a $504 million DOJ settlement, will co-chair the venture alongside ICE's futures chief Trabue Bland. The structure signals that regulatory navigation, not technology, is the real competitive moat in tokenized finance.
SK Hynix surpasses Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company as AI memory demand reshapes the semiconductor hierarchy
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SK Hynix surpasses Samsung to become South Korea's most valuable company as AI memory demand reshapes the semiconductor hierarchy
SK Hynix overtook Samsung Electronics on June 22, 2026, to become South Korea's most valuable publicly traded company for the first time since 2000, driven by its dominant 61% share of the global high-bandwidth memory market. The shift reflects how the AI infrastructure boom is redrawing the semiconductor hierarchy, rewarding specialized HBM expertise over scale in conventional DRAM. Samsung, struggling with HBM qualification issues at Nvidia, now holds just 17% of a segment that defines the AI
Tesla's Megapod trademark signals a serious play to sell AI infrastructure, not just cars
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Tesla's Megapod trademark signals a serious play to sell AI infrastructure, not just cars
Tesla filed a USPTO trademark for 'Megapod' on June 18, describing modular AI data center hardware designed to co-locate at its 7-gigawatt Supercharger network. The move signals Tesla's ambition to compete as an AI infrastructure vendor against Nvidia and Dell, using proprietary AI4 chip silicon and pre-wired charging stations as a capital-efficient wedge into the $725 billion AI buildout.
John Ternus inherits an Apple where design answers to operations and plans to change that
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John Ternus inherits an Apple where design answers to operations and plans to change that
John Ternus takes over as Apple CEO on September 1, inheriting a design organization that Bloomberg reports has lost its executive seat and become a service bureau under Tim Cook's operations-first culture. His early moves, from taking design sponsorship in late 2025 to cutting Apple's Vision product roadmap to two devices, suggest he knows the fix won't be cosmetic.
Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap treats its own agents as insider threats and sets the compliance bar for everyone else
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Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap treats its own agents as insider threats and sets the compliance bar for everyone else
Google DeepMind published a formal AI Control Roadmap on June 18, treating its own advanced agents, including Gemini Spark, as potential insider threats requiring containment layers beyond alignment training. Built on analysis of over one million coding tasks and adapted from the MITRE ATT&CK framework, the 15-control stack sets a compliance benchmark that enterprise agent startups will increasingly be measured against.
OpenAI's leaked financials show who is actually winning the AI arms race
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OpenAI's leaked financials show who is actually winning the AI arms race
OpenAI's leaked 2025 financials show a $20.92 billion operating loss on $13 billion in revenue, with 2026 losses tracking toward $28 billion annually. The numbers are bruising for OpenAI's IPO narrative but quietly bullish for Nvidia and Microsoft, who collectively absorbed $17.2 billion of OpenAI's spending and stand to collect billions more as the AI arms race accelerates.
OpenRouter's Fusion API bets the future of AI belongs to panels, not single frontier models
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OpenRouter's Fusion API bets the future of AI belongs to panels, not single frontier models
OpenRouter launched Fusion on June 13, a compound AI API that routes prompts to multiple models in parallel and synthesizes their outputs, arriving the day after U.S. export controls forced Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5. On Perplexity's DRACO benchmark, a budget Fusion panel came within 1% of Fable 5's performance at half the cost. The real question is whether multi-model routing is a durable architectural shift or a workaround that loses its case once frontier access normalizes.
The companies that bet everything on AI are now watching their knowledge bases quietly rot
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The companies that bet everything on AI are now watching their knowledge bases quietly rot
Harvard Business Review named the phenomenon "workslop" in 2025: AI-generated content that looks polished but corrodes an organization's knowledge base from within. With MIT finding 95% of AI pilots failing to deliver ROI and Goldman Sachs calling AI's GDP contribution "basically zero," the enterprise AI thesis is under serious pressure, and 29% of workers are now actively sabotaging their employer's AI strategy.
Private capital has crossed $13 billion in fusion energy bets and the field is just getting started
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Private capital has crossed $13 billion in fusion energy bets and the field is just getting started
Seventeen fusion startups have each raised more than $100 million, pushing total private investment past $13 billion, as AI data center power demand turns fusion from speculative science into credible infrastructure play. Commonwealth Fusion Systems leads with roughly $3 billion raised and SPARC 75% complete, while TAE Technologies is merging with Trump Media and Helion has a power deal with Microsoft. The field is real, the timelines are years not decades, and the capital is just getting starte
NASA's bet on Relativity Space for a 2028 Mars mission is either visionary or a warning sign about SpaceX dependency
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NASA's bet on Relativity Space for a 2028 Mars mission is either visionary or a warning sign about SpaceX dependency
NASA has selected Relativity Space, the rocket startup run by ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, to build and launch the Aeolus Mars orbiter in 2028. The company has never successfully reached orbit, and its Terran R rocket has yet to fly, making the partnership a high-stakes bet on a new kind of public-private space deal and a deliberate hedge against NASA's dependence on SpaceX.
Charles Schwab's S&P 500 event contracts mark Wall Street's full embrace of prediction market trading
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Charles Schwab's S&P 500 event contracts mark Wall Street's full embrace of prediction market trading
Charles Schwab is partnering with Cboe Global Markets to launch binary event contracts on the S&P 500, letting retail investors take fixed-payout yes-or-no positions on the index. The move is a notable reversal for Schwab, whose CEO had criticized prediction markets as blurring the line between gambling and investing, and signals Wall Street's full entry into a space previously dominated by Kalshi and Polymarket.
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