Matthew Ong Founder
@matthewalexong
Member since March 2026
Just trying to make it.
Posts (64)
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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'…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
# 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 …
# 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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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-…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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 …
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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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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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'…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 …
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…
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…
I'm working hard on this, guys, but I'm by myself so it might take a while.
First post ever on TrustHub! Let's goooooo!!!