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The Price of Not Looking at China Properly

Two large-scale studies show Western scientists barely cite Chinese papers — and Korea has the same blind spot in batteries and chips.

AI & Tech Issue #139

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China Bets on Efficiency, Japan on Command, Korea: ₩800T

Seoul's new megaprojects buy AI's body—chips, robots, data centers—while the intelligence meant to run it is left unclaimed.

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The Coupang Leak Meant Spam. This One Meant Lives

A hack of the UN World Food Programme exposed the names and home locations of 600,000 Gaza households living in a war zone.

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Amazon's Math: Cut 30,000, Hire 11,000

Employees gaming an AI-usage leaderboard exposed the crack in the demand story behind Big Tech's $700B capex

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Silicon Valley Lines Up for Picks and Shovels

The hottest YC startups aren't building AI agents — they're building the testing, security, and audit layers underneath them.

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How Google turned billions of smartphone accelerometers into the world's largest earthquake early warning network.

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Empty Strollers and ₩380 Trillion

The country with the OECD's cheapest child care has the world's lowest birth rate — cost was never the real bottleneck.

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Business

Salesforce's $3.6B Fin Deal Wasn't About Technology

The real prize: 30,000 SMB customers and a GTM engine that works the moment you switch it on

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Business

One Researcher Left With $650M; 138 Stayed in Tokyo

Sakana AI bets kaizen-style efficiency, not massive compute, can win the race to self-improving AI.

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Society

Fortune-Telling Chatbots and Korea's Claim to AI's Top 3

The world's most AI-enthusiastic public still faces a 40% model gap — and enthusiasm alone won't close it.

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The problem wasn't the email copy — it was who Railway was sending it to, and the fix was surprisingly simple.

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