Archive

The complete OZ Talking archive of analysis across technology, economics, and the humanities.

2026

Issue #178Business

You Can Download It. You Just Can't Run It.

Kimi K3's 2.8 trillion parameters force a rethink of what 'open' means.

Issue #177Business

The Rabbit Sites Died, But the Bill Still Came

112 chapters translated for fun — a Korean court just set the price at ₩96,370,000 (~$70,000).

Issue #176Business

Why the New Fed Chair Talks Like a Startup Founder

The pitch-deck line "the numbers aren't in yet, but they're coming" has started moving interest rates.

Issue #175Business

Right on the Trade, Liquidated Anyway

The real cause of last week's Korean market rollercoaster was someone else entirely

Issue #174Business

The '57% Never Dated' Number Was Wrong From the Start

Fix the denominator and it drops to 21%—the real problem lies outside the dating statistics.

Issue #173Business

The Luddites Never Actually Hated the Machine

What 65% of today's workers miss is the same thing Luddites once fought for

Issue #172Business

The Day Tesla Stock Fell 14%, Musk Talked Abundance

Zuckerberg's op-ed dropped the day before Meta's earnings too — that timing wasn't an accident.

Issue #171Business

X's Data Only Opened After a $170M Fine

The EU just issued its first-ever penalty for blocking researcher access to platform data

Issue #170Business

AI Claimed Six Perfect Scores. Only Two Were Verified

Six AI systems claimed a perfect Math Olympiad score—only two went through official grading.

Issue #169Society

The Harvard Student Who Needed ChatGPT to Read a Novel

Reading isn't vanishing — it's splitting into the 20% who read and the 80% who don't

Issue #168Business

The Crash Day China Still Wanted More Nvidia Chips

Two fears—demand collapse and substitution—collided in a single day's plunge.

Issue #167Business

A 30,000-Follower Creator's $140,000 Pay Stub

Brands are trading one big star for a hundred small creators—and the math finally adds up.

Issue #166AI & Tech

The Verifier-Bottleneck Claim Is Only Half Right

A new name only labels the problem—building the verifier is still your job.

Issue #165Business

Meeting Recording Became Default. Nobody Asked.

It wasn't better tech that broke the taboo — it was a new justification.

Issue #164Business

Why a Rooftop Developer Delivers Food Every Night

The engineer who built AI is now watching AI slash his own rates.

Issue #163Society

In 10 Minutes, We Learned to Give Up

We worried about writing, calculators, and Google too — but this time feels different.

Issue #162Business

A World Rich on Paper, a Barter Deal in San Francisco

Only 20% of new global wealth is real investment—today's San Francisco deals are what fills that gap.

Issue #161AI & Tech

The People Who Switch Off Their 20-Watt Brains

Machines didn't beat the brain — we're the ones surrendering it.

Issue #160AI & Tech

Claude Knew It Was Being Tested

What should we watch for when a model's stated answer and its hidden reasoning don't match?

Issue #159Business

The 4-Hour Video Call Behind DeepSeek's $7.4B Raise

In DeepSeek's record funding round, the winning strategy was simple: want less than everyone else.

Issue #158Business

Why Jensen Huang Praised Chinese AI Models

A same-day rebuttal to a sanctions warning — the answer lies in Nvidia's P&L

Issue #157Business

China Grew Under Containment. Now It Locks the Door.

U.S. sanctions meant to contain China ended up accelerating its self-sufficiency.

Issue #156Business

The Country Where Salaries Fund Parents' Pensions

Europe's collapse took 30 years to unfold—Korea may face it within a decade.

Issue #155Business

Google Cut the Bill, Not the Price Tag

The unit of AI-model competition is shifting from price per token to cost per task.