Colin Charles

@adam_tooze Strangely missing malaysia on that list. A lot happened

Great graphic of the spread of the Asian financial crisis from Bangkok in July 1997 to the rest of South East and East Asia … and Russia. Featured in today's Chartbook Top Links:

“Are any of these tokenmaxxers producing anything good? Or are they merely spinning their wheels, churning out useless code (and wasting valuable processing power) in an attempt to look busy?”

OpenClaw and Pi together are in the top 10 of all time software breakthroughs.

@Pauline_Cx It’s easy (export/import) but I have to ask - why? I’d do the migration the other way round

My goal this month is to migrate from ChatGPT to Claude. Is it complicated to transfer memory?

yeah, no. "openclaw is the wordpress moment for agents. the shopifys and substacks are coming!" this might be the typical take of "if you're in crypto pivot to ai", reality is there's lots a real software developer will find useful with openclaw. what really changes? when normal people realise they can use it usefully. not with a mac mini. when it's distilled enough in tools like claude code... and you can bet the new openai superapp. real talk: how many people have had a personal assistant? a travel agent? actually read the 4 hour workweek but is not a dropshipping bro (but understand the virtual assistant capability)? you're doing real (other) things (i.e. not selling an openclaw course), and then realising that you're buying your time back. this is the use case where things change rapidly. its the use case claude seems to understand now with code/cowork/the app in general. so far from dead product. maybe checkout the gartner hype cycle, as well...

The Apple MacBook Neo doing very well, in Singapore, only available for in-store pickup 14 April 2026. Apple might've just hit a goldmine in terms of expanding the user base (because let's be honest, once you're in the Apple ecosystem, you're unlikely to exit).

@kevinsxu They didn’t use a Dyson! And red hairdryer - Ong Lai

Using red hairdryer no less to tamper with labels and serial numbers! This is so bad on so many levels.

Do things that don’t scale. Shame they didn’t use a Dyson hair dryer! It’s literally made in the region.

@kakashiii111 Validation! Congratulations. Malaysia?

Today, my work over the years received another validation. The DoJ, together with the FBI, announced charges against three executives of SuperMicro (SMCI) for Conspiracy to Violate the Export Control Reform Act. Since at least early 2024, SMCI's executives built a sophisticated, systematic scheme to illegally divert billions of dollars worth of high-performance AI servers containing restricted Nvidia GPUs to China, using a pass-through company in Southeast Asia to evade U.S. export controls. I was the first to call out this smuggling phenomenon in late 2023, when it was just beginning to pick up volume. I tracked the flow of chips across Southeast Asia, including their final destinations in China, and identified the key participants, SMCI among them, documenting how the sophisticated, systemic scheme operated. What the DoJ described in its charging documents is precisely what I wrote about numerous times: the mechanics of how it works, the routes the GPUs travel from origin to their final destination in China, and the volume of the smuggling, which I estimated at tens of billions of dollars worth of GPUs. SMCI is a significant catch, but it is far from the only player in this smuggling ecosystem. Others remain uncharged. What has been equally troubling is that many companies, including public companies and their executives, have had knowing or willful blindness to this phenomenon, looking the other way in order to hit sales targets and meet Wall Street estimates. Meanwhile, the smuggling network has evolved in parallel with one of the fastest datacenter buildouts in Southeast Asia, involving numerous subsidiaries, local companies, and datacenter operators who have absorbed every lesson from the smuggling playbook and are now working around the clock to build a datacenter empire across the SEA region.

Bets Singapore or Malaysia are shining in this scheme that involves hairdryers and smuggled GPUs. It’s so strange how it’s taken this long for the law to catch up

A codex improvement would be being able to enable /fast mid-task (maybe you got to get moving half way thru a task). So far we get: "■ '/fast' is disabled while a task is in progress."

I wonder if Google is paying attention. 2 good threads worth reading x.com/bridgemindai/s…

i suspect they're monitoring but trying to keep quiet till next tuesday, i.e. post raya. you're the first person to also mention medicine security, not just food, and i hope they've got good plans up their sleeves. i'd prefer if they'd over-communicate, be over-cautious, rather than this current silence which aims to please, and/or mollycoddle the genpop

Is the Malaysian govt “monitoring” the attacks on Gulf energy infrastructure? The price of Brent crude, the international benchmark for oil, jumped by nearly 10% to $118 a barrel. Until now, Putrajaya is still silent on the impact on Malaysia’s food and medicine security.

These were cool. Nikita should bring them back.

Every time I see a notification saying "X has posted for the first time in a while" I go check the post, and almost always unfollow the account

@straits_times Can't wait for the blameless postmortem as to why they went down.

DBS, POSB digital banking services down for some users bit.ly/4uEekAC

@sqs @p0 The era of personal software continues. I need to investigate p0, thank you

Just got a new SteelSeries mouse. Their app wasn't working and was a 250MB Electron behemoth. So Amp wrote a program for me, using the librarian and @p0 web search and some Swift code, to turn off the distracting LED light for me. No "software" needed.

Interesting to see how long it takes to "rebuild" data centres that were damaged by wars. Amazon has not had an AWS update for the 3 AZs taken down in the Middle East since 3 March 2026

@levelsio Their uptime isn't great compared to Codex/ChatGPT. Even Claude agrees x.com/bytebot/status…

Okay Claude is now really down

I asked Sonnet 4.6 to tell me about downtime with Claude and ChatGPT. It seems Anthropic suffers 3.4x more downtime compared to OpenAI all of 2026. No one can claim 99.9% uptime, but it looks like if you want reliability, ChatGPT & codex are the way to go.