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Matthew Ong

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Member since March 2026

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 23
Tim Cook Made Apple Rich. I'm Hoping John Ternus Makes It Interesting Again.

Apple announced on April 20, 2026 that Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO. He's moving into an Executive Chairman role. John Ternus — Apple's long-time hardware engineering lead, the…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 23
I'm Paying $200 a Month for Claude. Dispatch Has Been Down for Two Days.

I signed up for Claude's $200 plan at the start of this month. First time at that tier. I made the jump because the Anthropic stack — Claude Code, Cowork, Claude in Chrome, Claude …

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 17
Anthropic Just Released Opus 4.7. I've Been Using It All Day and the Difference Is Not Subtle.

Opus 4.6 came out on February 5th. Opus 4.7 dropped today, April 16th. That's ten weeks. Ten weeks between major model releases from the same company. Let me put that in perspecti…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 17
I'm an Anthropic Fanboy. Here's Why Their Revenue Numbers Bother Me.

I've been all-in on Claude for a couple of months now. I pay $200 a month for the Max plan. I use Dispatch, Cowork, Claude Code — the whole ecosystem. I've built projects, written …

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 14
Anthropic and OpenAI Are Both Going After Drug Discovery. Here's Why That Matters.

Two things happened in the last two weeks that most people in the AI space aren't connecting. Anthropic paid $400 million for Coefficient Bio — a drug discovery startup with fewer…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 11
Hot Take: Elon Might Win the AGI Race and Nobody Is Paying Attention

I'm going to make a prediction that most people in the AI space would laugh at right now. I think Elon Musk has a legitimate shot at winning the race to AGI. And the reason has not…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 8
Your Hand-Written Code Has Had Bugs for 27 Years. But Sure, Vibe Coding Is the Problem.

Anthropic just unveiled Claude Mythos, and it's already making some people very uncomfortable. The model isn't publicly available — Anthropic considers it too powerful to release b…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 8
My AI Caught Something a Major Podcast Missed

I use AI to help me write these posts. I'm not hiding that, and I'm not apologizing for it. Nobody has said to me in those exact words, "I don't trust AI-assisted writing." But I'…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 8
A Company Is Bringing Back Dire Wolves. Tell Me Again How AI Is Only Bad.

Colossal Biosciences just did something that sounds like it belongs in a movie. They brought back dire wolves. Or at least something close to them. In October 2024, two dire wolf …

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AI and Technology · News · Apr 6
Kimi Called Itself Claude. Good Luck Doing Anything About That.

The day before a Reddit user caught Kimi K2.5 saying it was Claude, Anthropic published a blog post naming three Chinese AI labs for stealing their technology. Timing like that is…

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AI and Technology · News · Apr 5
Google's Gemma 4 Is What the Chinese Models Promised But Couldn't Deliver

For the past year, every few months a new Chinese open model would drop and the discourse would go something like this: "This is it. GPT-4 level, open weights, you can run it yours…

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AI and Technology · News · Apr 5
SpaceX Is Filing to Go Public. The Real Story Isn't the Stock.

SpaceX just filed confidentially with the SEC for an IPO. The valuation numbers floating around are somewhere between $1.5 trillion and $2 trillion — which would make it one of the…

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Economy · Discussion · Apr 5
MIT's 'Living Wage' for Maryland Leaves $0 Leftover—Here's the Math

I came across the MIT Living Wage Calculator for Maryland. It says a single adult needs $25.94 an hour to survive—no kids, full-time work. Two adults both working? $16.96 each. Tha…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 4
How Anthropic Went From $3B to $20B in 10 Months — And Why I Think They Earned It

I use Claude every day. Not as a novelty. Not to ask it trivia questions. I use it to run my businesses. In the past two months, I built two websites and an iOS app with Claude. I…

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Economy · Discussion · Apr 4
The Silver Tsunami Isn't Coming — It's Already Here, and Nobody's Talking About the Part That Matters

# The Silver Tsunami Isn't Coming — It's Already Here, and Nobody's Talking About the Part That Matters Here's what nobody's really saying about the aging of America: The silver …

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Economy · Discussion · Apr 4
Can Two $20/Hour Workers Actually Afford a Kid?

# Can Two $20/Hour Workers Actually Afford a Kid? My wife and I talk about this more than I'd like to admit. We're up there in age. We've been putting it off. And every time we s…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Apr 1
Apple's New $599 MacBook Neo: What You Get and What It Means

My wife and I walked into the Apple Store in Bethesda last week planning to buy a MacBook Neo. We left with nothing — and with a story worth thinking about. The store was sold out…

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Economy · Discussion · Apr 1
We Pay to Dig the Mine. Big Pharma Takes the Gold.

I just watched a clip from Joe Rogan's podcast with Brigham Buhler where they break down what's happening with GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. And I went down the rabbit hole …

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Real Talk · Discussion · Mar 31
I’m 100% being petty about this and I don’t give a shit.

I took my car to a Shell station last week. Not my usual spot — I was in the area doing something else and figured, I need to get my brake pads and oil changed why not knock it out…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 31
Nvidia Just Put $2 Billion Into Marvell. Here's Why a Deal Instead of a Buyout Makes More Sense

When Nvidia announced a $2 billion investment in Marvell Technology last week, the headlines focused on the size of the number. But the more interesting question isn't how much — i…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 31
AI Is Reshaping Cybersecurity Jobs. Is That Good or Bad for Workers?

The Department of Homeland Security is partially shut down. Iran-linked hackers are ramping up attacks on US infrastructure. And somewhere in San Francisco, a startup is pitching A…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 31
ARM Just Announced a New Chip — Here's What They're Saying About It

ARM, the company whose chip designs power everything from iPhones to Android phones to data centers, just announced something unusual: their own computer chip. This is actually a …

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Economy · News · Mar 30
The Car Affordability Trap Nobody Is Talking About

I keep seeing headlines about inflation cooling. And on most things — groceries, electronics, furniture — the math checks out. Prices have stabilized. For now. But there's one …

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 29
Grok 4.20 Just Dropped. Here's How It Actually Stacks Up. Post image

xAI released Grok 4.20 on March 8, and the claims are big: record-low hallucination rates, a four-agent architecture, and benchmark scores that put it in the conversation with GPT-…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 29
Google Just Made Every AI Model 6x Cheaper to Run. The Memory Chip Industry Is Panicking.

Google published a paper this week on something called TurboQuant. It's a compression algorithm that shrinks the memory needed to run large language models by six times. No accurac…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 29
McKinsey Adds AI Tool Proficiency to Job Interview Process

McKinsey has added AI tool proficiency as a graded component of its hiring process. In a pilot running since earlier this year, final-round candidates for Business Analyst position…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 29
What AI Agents Are and Where They Stand in 2026

AI agents have become a central focus of the technology industry in 2026. The term appears frequently in product launches, conference agendas, and investment discussions. This arti…

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Economy · News · Mar 29
National Gas Prices Rise One Dollar Per Gallon in 30 Days Amid Strait of Hormuz Disruption

The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline rose from approximately $2.98 to $3.98 over 30 days, a one-dollar increase driven by the U.S.-Iran conflict and disrupti…

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Economy · Discussion · Mar 29
USDA Forecasts 3.1% Grocery Price Increase in 2026, Above 20-Year Average

The USDA's 2026 food price outlook projects grocery prices will rise 3.1% this year, exceeding the 20-year average of 2.6%. Overall food prices, including restaurants, are forecast…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 29
Morgan Stanley Projects Major AI Capability Increase by June 2026

Morgan Stanley published a report this month projecting a significant AI capability increase between now and June 2026, driven by an unprecedented accumulation of compute resources…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 29
Over 60,000 Tech Workers Laid Off in Early 2026 as Companies Cite AI Investment

More than 60,000 technology workers have been laid off in 2026 through the end of Q1. Companies are citing AI investment and restructuring as primary reasons for the reductions. M…

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Economy · News · Mar 29
U.S. Economy Lost 92,000 Jobs in February While Prices Continued Rising, Raising Stagflation Concerns

The U.S. economy shed 92,000 jobs in February, against economist expectations of a 60,000-job gain — a swing of 152,000 jobs. Simultaneously, prices continued to rise. The Federal …

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Economy · Discussion · Mar 29
Cost of Living Data Shows Affordable States Becoming More Expensive as Migration Increases

Cost of living data for 2026 shows significant variation across U.S. states, but states that were previously considered affordable are experiencing rising costs as population migra…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 28
Anthropic Leaks Mythos. Mind blown.

Anthropic accidentally spilled the beans on a major new AI model called Claude Mythos, and the way it happened says as much about the state of AI right now as the model itself. Thi…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 26
I Tried Every Chinese AI Model. Here's My Honest Take as a Non-Engineer.

I've spent the last couple months testing basically every major Chinese open-source AI model: DeepSeek, Kimi, and now MiniMax. The only one I haven't really gotten my hands on yet …

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 26
Claude Can Control Your Computer Now. I Built Two Websites and an App Without Knowing How to Code.

Anthropic just released computer use for Claude. It can control your mouse, your keyboard, see your screen, open apps, click buttons, fill out forms. It's basically what made OpenC…

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Real Talk · Discussion · Mar 26
You Can Listen to Elon Musk Talk for 3 Hours for Free and Most People Choose Brain Rot Instead

This has been on my mind for a while. You can pull out your phone right now, open YouTube, and listen to Elon Musk — arguably the greatest entrepreneur alive — talk for three hour…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 25
OpenAI Just Killed Sora — Agents Are Where the Real Money Is At Post image

OpenAI just shut down Sora. Six months after launch. Gone. Their applications chief literally told the team they "could not be distracted by side quests." That's what Sora was to …

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Economy · Discussion · Mar 24
Five Arguments Against Raising the Minimum Wage. Here's Why I Think They're All Wrong.

I keep hearing the same five arguments against raising the minimum wage. From podcasts, from business owners, from politicians, from people on the internet who took one econ class …

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Economy · Discussion · Mar 24
Who Actually Owns New York? Because It's Not New Yorkers.

You hear stories about billionaires from overseas buying up condos in Manhattan and never setting foot in them. I always assumed it was exaggerated. Rich people buying a few pentho…

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Economy · Discussion · Mar 24
Jamie Dimon Is Worried Again. Should You Be?

Jamie Dimon has been warning us about the economy for years now. In 2022, he said a "hurricane" was coming. It didn't. The economy grew, jobs kept coming, and the hurricane turned …

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Economy · Discussion · Mar 24
Nobody's Buying. Nobody's Selling. And the Loans That Do Exist Are Starting to Crack.

Here's a stat that blew my mind when I first saw it: in 2025, only about 28 out of every 1,000 homes in America changed hands. That's a turnover rate of 2.77% — the lowest in at le…

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Economy · Discussion · Mar 23
A House Used to Cost 3 Years of Your Salary. Now It's 5. What Happened? Post image +1

I'm not an economist. I'm not a policy analyst. I'm a guy who served in the military, went to culinary school, worked hard, and still can't afford a house. And I'm starting to wond…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 23
Amazon Wants to Make a Phone Again. Seriously.

Somewhere inside Amazon's Devices and Services division, a team is reportedly working on a smartphone codenamed "Transformer." If that sentence triggers your fight-or-flight respon…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 23
OpenAI Wants to Let You Sext With ChatGPT. Privacy Experts Are Horrified.

OpenAI is developing what's being called "Adult Mode" — a feature that would allow verified adults to have intimate and sexual conversations with ChatGPT. The company frames it as …

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 23
Palantir Just Became a Permanent Part of the U.S. War Machine

On March 9th, the Pentagon formally designated Palantir's Maven AI as an official "program of record" — which in defense-speak means it's no longer a pilot project or experimental …

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 23
AI's Dirty Secret: The Power Grid Can't Handle It

Everyone's talking about what AI can do. Almost nobody's talking about whether we can actually power it. Here's a number that should stop you cold: there are currently 50 gigawatt…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 23
The Guy Who Built Signal's Encryption Is Now Securing Your Meta AI Conversations

If you've ever had a private conversation with an AI chatbot and wondered who else might be reading it — this one's for you. Moxie Marlinspike, the cryptographer who built Signal'…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 23
The Pentagon Just Blacklisted Anthropic. The Court Hearing Is Tomorrow.

This might be the most important AI story nobody's paying enough attention to. The Department of Defense has formally designated Anthropic — the company behind Claude — as a "supp…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 23
Musk Wants to Build a $25B Chip Factory — and Send Most of It to Space

Elon Musk just announced something called TeraFab. It's a $25 billion project between Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI to build their own chip factory in Austin. The basic idea: instead of …

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 22
Apple Is Handing Siri's Brain to Google — and Hoping You Won't Notice

Apple just confirmed what's been rumored for months. The next version of Siri will be powered by Google's Gemini models, running on Apple's Private Cloud Compute infrastructure. It…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 22
Anthropic Just Dropped $100M to Build a Claude Army — Here's What That Means

Anthropic announced the Claude Partner Network this month, backed by $100 million in funding. The short version: they're paying consulting firms, agencies, and developers to help b…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 22
I Did Everything Right and Still Can't Afford a House. AI Might Be My Way Out.

Something's shifted. If you've been paying any attention over the past year, you've felt it. Across the country, people are pushing back against AI — and not quietly. Artists are …

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Co-founder Hunt · Discussion · Mar 22
This is why I started Trusthub.

This is the whole reason I even started Trust Hub. Every single other platform out there, you have to wade through a sea of bad actors. I just wanted a place where we could reduce …

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 22
Tesla's Cybercab Is Actually Happening — Here's Why I Think People Are Sleeping on This

Tesla just started rolling Cybercabs off the line at Giga Texas. Drone footage from earlier this month showed 25 units on the factory grounds. Full volume production is targeted fo…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 21
Data centers in orbit sounds like sci-fi. It's not anymore.

There's a quiet race happening to move AI compute off-planet. NVIDIA's GTC announcement that it's building Space-1 Vera Rubin — an AI data center module designed for orbit — was e…

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TrustHub Official Updates · news · Mar 21
Big Update — TrustHub Is Now Open to Everyone (and Google Can Find Us)

We just rolled out two major changes to how TrustHub works. Anyone can sign up now. You no longer need to verify your ID just to browse. Sign up with an email, follow people, join…

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 21
Jensen just laid out NVIDIA's entire autonomous driving stack — and it's a lot

Nvidia's GTC summit just wrapped, and if you thought the AV world was crowded, you haven't seen anything yet. Here's what actually came out of it. Rubin is the new baseline. The …

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AI and Technology · News · Mar 21
OpenClaw shipped a lot of meaningful updates this month

If you've been sleeping on OpenClaw's plugin system, March was a banger! Three things that caught my attention: 1. Firecrawl is now bundled natively. Web scraping just became a …

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 21
GPT-5.4 Just Landed — How Does It Stack Up Against Opus 4.6, Grok and Gemini 3.1 Pro? Post image

OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 on March 5th and it's a pretty significant step up from 5.2. The headline numbers: 33% fewer factual errors per claim, 18% fewer errors overall, and a 272K c…

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AI and Technology · news · Mar 21
Google Just Dropped Stitch 2.0 — Free AI Tool That Designs Full UIs From a Conversation

Google Labs just completely redesigned Stitch, and honestly this one caught me off guard. It went from a basic AI mockup generator to a full design canvas that can take you from "I…

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AI and Technology · Discussion · Mar 14
Openclaw

New updates are insane!

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TrustHub Official Updates · News · Mar 13
Jobs and Marketplace pages.

I'm working hard on this, guys, but I'm by myself so it might take a while.

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TrustHub Official Updates · Discussion · Mar 12
First!

First post ever on TrustHub! Let's goooooo!!!

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