Date: 2026-06-24 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.050, Zenta calls his latest webinar the best he has ever run — precisely because it broke. He was introducing Joanne, Functional AI Partners’ AI webinar MC, live for the first time; minutes…
Date: 2026-06-23 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.049, Zenta admits he has started ignoring the word “AI” — not out of opposition (he builds AI agents for a living) but exhaustion, after one pitch for “AI-powered market research” turned out…
Date: 2026-06-22 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.048, Zenta turns a product launch into an uncomfortable question. Alipay — 969 million monthly users — rolled out its AI assistant “Abao,” which can hail a taxi, pay a bill, book a…
Date: 2026-06-19 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.047, Zenta files Week 2 of Functional AI Partners’ public “Project AI Native” — the 12-week effort to take DCC Corporate Services, his Singapore accounting firm run day to day by director Getty,…
Date: 2026-06-18 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.046, Zenta pushes back on a new label. Glean’s Work AI Institute — with researchers from Notre Dame, Stanford and Berkeley — surveyed 6,000 office workers and coined “botsitting”: the invisible labour of…
Date: 2026-06-16 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.045, Zenta reads Salesforce’s $3.6 billion acquisition of Fin — the AI customer-service agent formerly known as Intercom — in the same week it trimmed its in-house Agentforce team, and refuses the easy…
Date: 2026-06-15 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.044, Zenta responds to Visa plugging its payment network into ChatGPT — agents can now complete purchases at any merchant that takes Visa, with Mastercard reportedly close behind. Where the reflex online was…
Date: 2026-06-12 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.043, Zenta opens a new weekly strand of his AI Adoption Series — “Project AI Native,” the live, week-by-week story of one Singapore SME becoming AI Native. The business on the line is…
Date: 2026-06-09 | Newsletter Key Summary In Vol.042, Zenta dismantles the most common mistake he sees managers make with AI: setting “usage” itself as the goal. He opens with a 2005 thought experiment — no one ever ordered a team…
Date: 2026-06-08 | Newsletter Key Summary This week the question of what a stock index is actually for landed on every Singapore investor’s monthly S&P 500 habit. Ahead of SpaceX’s record ~US$1.8 trillion IPO on June 12 — with OpenAI…
