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A CITIC Bank VIP customer redeems Starbucks through about ten app screens—a window into China’s dense bank-app UX.

Shopify and Notion are moving back to native. A former SwiftUI engineer: all bugs are bridging bugs.

After Jacob Coxon's resignation post neared 150M views, Anthropic Alignment Science Lead Evan Hubinger replied that Coxon is correct — extinction risk over 10% this decade, and no clear plan yet for superintelligence alignment.

Jacob Coxon resigned from Anthropic. A GPT-4o Core Contributor says OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with everyone’s lives.

It’s easy to measure the whole world with the one ruler we already know. A short reflection sparked by Grok Bot.

A Shanghai brunch with the founder of XMind on how AI is changing product trade-offs, education, and organizations.

China's GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) market grew 12x in one year, with service providers exploding from dozens to over a thousand. Behind the frenzy: commoditized offerings, grey-hat tactics, and unverifiable ROI. An insider's view for Western AI practitioners.

An anonymized, real-world look at how a European connected-fitness brand scoped its first WeChat Mini Program: the brief, the QR-to-session flow, the thin-front-end architecture, the 40-question information request, and the discovery process that replaces guesswork estimates.

Why a WeChat Mini Program is not a translated mobile app: architecture patterns, identity integration, QR-based device interaction, and China compliance considerations for global companies entering the Chinese market.

This trip to Manila was short, more of a quick look than a deep visit.