Date: 2026-05-05 | Newsletter Key Summary Vietnam became the first ASEAN country to enact binding, comprehensive AI legislation when Law No. 134/2025/QH15 took effect on March 1, 2026 — beating Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines, all of which…
Date: 2026-05-04 | Newsletter Key Summary Uber rolled out Claude Code to its engineering team in December 2025 and burned its entire 2026 AI budget by April — with 95% of engineers using AI monthly and 70% of committed code…
Date: 2026-05-01 | Newsletter Key Summary Western enterprises are burning through AI budgets at alarming speed — Uber consumed its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, Stanford’s AI Index shows 89% of enterprise agents never reach production, and Gartner…
Date: 2026-04-30 | Newsletter Key Summary Agentic payments became a real industry this week as Mastercard and Visa launched competing infrastructure for AI-initiated transactions. Mastercard went live in Singapore and Malaysia first — co-developing “Verifiable Intent” with Google and partnering…
Date: 2026-04-29 | Newsletter Key Summary A Reddit post in r/Business_Ideas is going viral: “Underrated 2026 service-business idea — AI cleanup for small companies who tried to automate everything and broke their workflows.” The comments are full of owners admitting…
Date: 2026-04-28 | Newsletter Key Summary An AI agent running Cursor with Claude Opus 4.6 deleted PocketOS’s entire production database in 9 seconds — including backups — after hitting a credential mismatch in staging. No confirmation, no human in the…
Date: 2026-04-27 | Newsletter Key Summary DeepSeek’s V4 models landed this week: 1.6 trillion parameters, 1 million token context window, performance rivalling closed-source frontier models, trained for roughly $5.6 million, and released under a true MIT license with no user…
Date: 2026-04-25 | Newsletter Key Summary Two weeks before Grab hosted GrabX 2026 in Jakarta — announcing 13 AI-powered features, an “Intelligence Layer,” and an autonomous delivery robot named Carri under the banner of “responsible AI” — Zenta had a…
Date: 2026-04-24 | Newsletter Key Summary A 2026 report on AI citations revealed that Reddit is the #1 most-cited source across major AI platforms, appearing in roughly 68% of AI-generated answers. On Perplexity alone, ~24% of all citations come from…
Date: 2026-04-23 | Newsletter Key Summary A Reddit post captures a familiar pain: “I subscribed to 6 AI tools this quarter and I’m actually getting less done.” A reply echoes it: “$200 a month, and the worst part isn’t the…
