Yanyan Wang
I am a tech and business strategist. I write about AI, media, tech, and markets.

Recent writing

What AI Skills Are and How to Create Your Own
A skill is a folder that teaches an AI agent a repeatable procedure: what to do, in what order, and what done looks like. Write it once, and the agent follows it every time that work comes up. In under a year, skills spread to nearly every major AI tool, including Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini.

AI Agents Are Moving Into Everyday Work
The latest AI products can research, use tools, work across files, and stay with a project for hours. The shift from answering questions to completing workflows could change how knowledge work gets done — and which parts of your job an agent can handle.
Why Memory Chips Are Getting So Expensive
Memory prices have roughly quadrupled in a year, pushing Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung past $1 trillion in market value within three weeks — and pushing up the price of Macs, Xboxes and Galaxy phones. What caused the memory shortage, why it matters outside tech, and what may happen next.
The Desks
Analysis of compute, capital spending, and the enterprises deploying AI.
OpenA watchlist of frontier-tech stocks with trailing-month moves and the news behind them.
OpenShort video breakdowns of the ideas in the briefs.
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