Ivan

@Stanford Econ Alum. Former Visiting Student @OxfordSBS @UniofOxford. Malaysian.

[Google Workspace @GoogleWorkspace]

Introducing Google Pics 🎨 Precise, powerful AI image creation is rolling out now to Google Workspace customers and Google AI Pro & Ultra subscribers.

Google Pics lets you edit individual objects, refine or translate text, and collaborate with your team.

Try it at https://t.co/jYcA6yKUDM.

[Harris Zainul @harriszainul]

Personally happy to see people with privilege pursuing the classics. If life affords you a certain level of comfort and safety, go do things that benefit humankind. Hope to see great things from her.

[Bank Negara Malaysia @BNM_official]

Pada mesyuarat bulan Julai, Jawatankuasa Dasar Monetari (Monetary Policy Committee, MPC) Bank Negara Malaysia telah membuat keputusan untuk mengekalkan Kadar Dasar Semalaman (OPR) pada 2.75%.

Dengarkan ulasan Gabenor Rasheed mengenai keputusan dasar monetari terkini termasuk prospek ekonomi semasa serta apa maknanya bagi rakyat Malaysia.

Baca Pernyataan Dasar Monetari penuh melalui: https://t.co/zUWqjmRC7M

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At its July meeting, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) of Bank Negara Malaysia decided to maintain the Overnight Policy Rate (OPR) at 2.75%.

Hear from Governor Rasheed on the latest monetary policy decision — including the economic outlook and what it means for Malaysians.

Read the full Monetary Policy Statement: https://t.co/zUWqjmRC7M

#MPC #OPR #MonetaryPolicy #DasarMonetari

[Bank Negara Malaysia @BNM_official]

“Saya hubungi bagi pihak polis...” bukan bermaksud anda dalam masalah.

Terima panggilan yang mendakwa anda terlibat dalam jenayah dan meminta anda pindahkan wang? Jangan panik. Ini adalah taktik scam untuk menakutkan dan mengelirukan anda.

Pihak berkuasa tidak akan meminta wang melalui telefon.
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"I'm calling from the police..." does not mean you are in trouble.

Received a call accusing you of being involved in a crime and demanding that you
transfer money? Do not panic. That's a scam tactic designed to frighten and confuse you.

The authorities will never ask you to transfer money over the phone.

#BNMAmaranScam #JanganKenaScam #ScamAlert #SoalSekatSebar #AndaLebihBijak

[Marco @maarcoofdezz]

Dos ingenieros de Anthropic pasaron 24 minutos exponiendo cada función de Claude Code que no sabías que existía y gratis.

La mayoría de las personas pasarán de largo este contenido

[sui @birdabo]

everybody calm down.

i got this.

[Abdul Rahman A Samad @arahman]

And if you are in Malaysia, using Claude, congratulations, you are in a bubble.

We are still early.

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

🚨 Anthropic's own team just showed how to actually use Claude Code properly.

30 minutes. free. the person who created Claude Code.

watch the workshop. bookmark it.

worth more than every $500 course you almost bought.

you've been using Claude without knowing 40 of its commands.

Then read the guide below.

[Claude @claudeai]

In Cowork, Claude can now build live artifacts: dashboards and trackers connected to your apps and files.

Open one any time and it refreshes with current data.

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs: make prototypes, slides, and one-pagers by talking to Claude.

Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, our most capable vision model. Available in research preview on the Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, rolling out throughout the day.

[Google Labs @GoogleLabs]

Introducing the new @stitchbygoogle, Google’s vibe design platform that transforms natural language into high-fidelity designs in one seamless flow.

🎨Create with a smarter design agent: Describe a new business concept or app vision and see it take shape on an AI-native canvas.
⚡️ Iterate quickly: Stitch screens together into interactive prototypes and manage your brand with a portable design system.
🎤 Collaborate with voice: Use hands-free voice interactions to update layouts and explore new variations in real-time.

Try it now (Age 18+ only. Currently available in English and in countries where Gemini is supported.) → https://t.co/pmT9iHEpZa

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Rafizi Ramli @rafiziramli]

Tengahari sikit nanti saya bagi respon pasal kegilaan @SPRMMalaysia nak cipta naratif @JamesJSChai ni fugitive sbb terlibat konon skandal kewangan RM1.1b.

Yang minta kami susun pertemuan dengan @Arm ialah @anwaribrahim sendiri.

Yang terbabit mesyuarat dengan CEO & pemilik ARM pun PMX sendiri.

Yang pengerusikan mesyuarat Jemaah Menteri berkali-kali bincang dan luluskan perkara ini pun PMX sendiri.

Yang rasmikan usahasama ini pun PMX sendiri.

Sepatutnya orang pertama yang SPRM perlu cari, kalau betul ada penyelewengan, ialah PMX sendiri.

Tapi Azam Baki sibuk cari James (yang peringkat pegawai yang sediakan slide) dan sekarang kerja di Cambridge.

Hanya kerana plot politik dalam PKR tak menjadi macam yg PMX nak, semua jentera kerajaan digerakkan kejar seorang budak.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Apple raised the MacBook Air price by $100 today. The base model now starts at $1,099. They doubled the storage to 512GB so nobody would notice.

The timing tells you everything. Apple is announcing the MacBook Neo tomorrow, a sub-$800 laptop running an iPhone A18 Pro chip instead of an M-series processor. The Air needed to move upmarket to create room underneath it. You can’t sell a $999 Air and a $599 Neo without cannibalizing one of them. So you bump the Air to $1,099 with doubled storage, make customers feel like they got a deal, and carve out a $500 gap for Neo to live in.

The iPhone 17 story is the same playbook. Apple added 120Hz ProMotion and doubled storage to 256GB while holding the $799 price. Sounds generous until you realize the iPhone Air exists now at a higher price point above it, and the iPhone 17e just launched at $599 with 256GB. Apple is building a three-tier ladder on every product line and adjusting specs at each rung so the jumps feel justified.

Here’s what nobody is talking about: Apple is doing all of this during a global RAM price crisis. Memory costs have surged because of AI datacenter buildout. Every other laptop maker is raising prices or cutting specs. Apple is absorbing the hit on storage and display upgrades specifically because it needs the product lineup to make sense for the Neo launch. Mac sales dropped 6.7% last quarter to $8.39B, missing analyst estimates by over $600M. They need a volume play.

The “value” framing is the misdirection. The real move is Apple turning its product line into a pricing ladder where every rung feels like a deal compared to the one above it, and every rung looks premium compared to the one below it. That’s how you grow a business that’s shrinking: you create a new bottom and push everything else up.

[Perplexity @perplexity_ai]

Introducing Perplexity Computer.

Computer unifies every current AI capability into one system.

It can research, design, code, deploy, and manage any project end-to-end.

[Nozz @NoahEpstein_]

stop what you're doing and look at this image.

each dot is 3.2 million people. 2,500 dots = 8.1 billion humans.

the grey? 6.8 billion people who have never used AI.
the green? 1.3 billion free chatbot users.
the yellow? 15-35 million who pay for it.
the red? that tiny sliver is us.

you think the AI space is crowded because you're in an echo chamber of the 0.06%.

the real world hasn't even started.

wrote a full breakdown on the data, the opportunity, and 7 businesses you can build from this gap today:

[Bearly AI @bearlyai]

A good demo of Claude in Powerpoint:

> upload an Excel investment watchlist
> auto-generate a first draft slide deck
> ask Claude to make it in “Mckinsey” style

Still needs some work but cleary saves hours of work.

[juanito @xjuanito]

This app just killed a $200B industry overnight

- It one-shots apps for Apple Watch, iPad, Vision Pro and even AR games like Pokémon Go

- what used to cost $50K and take 3 months now takes 15 minutes

- a16z threw $2.8M at this

Most freelance app developers are about to lose their jobs unless they already use AI

The people who win now are the ones with the best ideas, not the biggest dev teams

[Josh Kale @JoshKale]

Okay so Google's Pomelli is awesome

- Feed it your website so it can build brand DNA
- Prompt it to create any marketing material you want

The photoshoot feature is something you would previously have to pay thousands of dollars for. All done instantly in one prompt