Abdulrahman Rafiq

We in #Pakistan missed it when #WhatsApp became infrastructure. We adapted—but didn’t govern. With AI, that won’t be enough. Sovereign capability starts with control, and AI is one tech where one doesn't want to lose control of the infrastructure. #AI #SoverignAI #AIModels

As I predicted, 2026 is turning out to be the year of mergers of AI and AI enabled companies. @AnthropicAI is apparently on a roll, incorporating features that can possibly trigger acquisitions of some amazing tools that came up in 2025. #AI #mergers #acquisition

Just because you have a team of designers it doesn't mean they'll be interested in any work you throw at them. As business leaders it is our challenge to line up projects to resource, a challenge, especially at small firms. Seth mentality doesn't work for knowledge workers.

Working with ChatGPT or Claude is closer to delegation than automation. They can get things wrong. The responsibility doesn’t move from you and your oversight -- as they're still mere tools to assist. #AI #Governance #chatgpt #claude

The real play isn’t cell production. It’s control over the middle: imports in, assembly here, distribution out. brecorder.com/news/40418204

We spend our 20s trying to look older. Our 50s trying to look younger. Somewhere in between, we forget it was never about age, it was just about how we show up.

Taylor Swift trademarking her AI voice = Napster déjà vu for those of us who lived through Web 2.0. My friend @omar_ahmad may he RIP pulled the plug on Napster's servers as one of the last people there, said the industry never learns until it's too late. Here we go again. 🎵

Deja Vu for those who lived through the web 2.0 era, when music streaming became a thing... cnn.com/2026/04/28/bus…

The Strait of Hormuz is blockaded. 700 years ago, ships from Lahari Bandar — port of Thatta, capital of Sindh — sailed directly to Hormuz carrying cloth, indigo, and grain. The same chokepoint. The same stakes. Geography doesn't forget. #Hormuz #Sindh #Pakistan

Back on Twitter, after a long hiatus. AI is incredible,it's taken the world over. Just told chatgpt: I'm back on Twitter & it gave me a list of topics I could talk about,honing in on my specific interest in trade & business from an ancient historical perspective, in our region.

Aerospace giant secures acquisition rights or $10 billion partnership with fast-growing coding platform Cursor as it accelerates push into AI software ahead of a planned mega IPO. Read more at:profit.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/04/23/pak…

How Pakistan made the world over 3 trillion dollars richer On April 7, the world edged toward Trump's 8pm ultimatum that "a whole civilization will die tonight." By mid-afternoon, Polymarket gave less than a 5% chance for a ceasefire. But then in a flurry of last-minute diplomacy led by Pakistan's PM Shehbaz Sharif, ceasefire odds shifted from near-impossibility to 100%, as both U.S. and Iranian leadership publicly acknowledged the important role played by Pakistan. The sharp shift in probability of ceasefire from near-zero to certainty, allows us to estimate cleanly the market value of Pakistan's successful diplomacy. There was a sharp jump of 2.9% in S&P500 around the ceasefire announcement. The reaction was similar the world over. Global markets represent about $125T, so a 2.9% jump represents a gain of 3.6 trillion dollars for the world. Pakistan helped create TEN times its own GDP for the world! For me, the best part is not the trillions of dollar, but seeing Pakistan on the world stage as a peace maker. I hope Pakistan runs with this new identity by promoting peace not only abroad, but also at home. That means moving away from politics of division and exclusion, and treating every citizen as its own.

Happy New Year 2026! A sea of change is on the horizon... As I said some time back, the 20th Century paradigm is coming to an end. That's the tweet.

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Are LinkedIn and WaveApps.com down? I'm seeing a 500 internal error from Cloudflare on both.

Most bubbles eventually burst, and American tech companies' gold rush to A.I. is likely no exception. What happens to the economy when America's A.I. bubble bursts? I asked the chairman of Rockefeller International, Ruchir Sharma:

Cheapest meals for Rupees 3 ($0.011) in Karachi. Catered daily with a ❤️ by one Parveen Appa in Khudda Ki Bastı, Karachi. No one is turned away. 🥰👌🏼 youtu.be/SWTXDd8wn5o?si…

@PhysInHistory I'd choose Fyeb man.

If you could choose between the two lectures, whose would you attend? ✍️

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