AI & Tech

Evidence-led analysis of AI models and agents, chips, robotics, and digital infrastructure.

2026

Issue #200AI & Tech

467 Said They'd Quit Their Phones. Only 119 Did.

The real finding isn't the 119 who succeeded—it's the 348 who didn't.

Issue #197AI & Tech

Microsoft Sent 6,000 Staff Into Client Offices

As layoff stories piled up, one AI role saw postings jump 10-fold in 1 year.

Issue #185AI & Tech

Why Meta Won't Let AI Handle Incident Response

Before AI can do a job, that job first has to become code.

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 #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 #149AI & Tech

3,800 Hours of Speech: Inside a Brain Implant's Record

In March, brains trained robots. This time, a brain reclaimed its voice.

Issue #151AI & Tech

Why Big Tech Wants a Camera on Your Face

We asked for Samantha, and what showed up is an eye watching you.

Issue #142AI & Tech

The Agency That Stole a Logo, and a Word Called 'GEO'

'Guaranteed exposure' and 'algorithm domination'—these two phrases are the scam signal.

Issue #138AI & Tech

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.

Issue #135AI & Tech

The Houseplant That Talked to Me

The moment we can speak to something, we start a relationship with it.

Issue #130AI & Tech

Venezuela's Quake Alert Came From Phones, Not Seismometers

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

Issue #131AI & Tech

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.

Issue #125AI & Tech

Three of the Big Four Caught Citing Fake Sources

Only 5 of 45 footnotes in KPMG's agentic AI report were real — and the root cause is organizational, not technological.

Issue #122AI & Tech

Killing the World's Deadliest Animal With Code

Why Google is breeding 32 million mosquitoes to release in the US

Issue #120AI & Tech

SpaceX at $135: Dream Price or Bubble Price?

Institutions bid 4x the offering while Morningstar says $63 — the gap is a bet on data centers that don't exist yet.

Issue #121AI & Tech

Why Nature Put Peer-Reviewed Science on TikTok

A 157-year-old journal's TikTok debut reveals what shrinks when science goes short-form.

Issue #110AI & Tech

Jensen Huang's Ten Days: Beijing to Taipei

Three capitals, three dilemmas—the cost of Nvidia's tightrope walk is starting to show.

Issue #106AI & Tech

A Single Search Box Is Rewriting the Food Chain

The apex predator of its own ecosystem is now redesigning it

Issue #103AI & Tech

The Day Four-Legged Robots Join the Border Watch

"Hey robot, first watch's done — fancy a round of WD-40?"

Issue #102AI & Tech

Google Chrome Secretly Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC

An AI installed to protect your privacy never asked for your consent—here's what that paradox reveals.

Issue #101AI & Tech

Rosedale's AI Camera Fence: Who's Inside, Who's Out

If safety can be purchased, who ends up paying the price?

Issue #99AI & Tech

Everyone Can Code Now: Who Are We Building For?

As AI drives coding costs toward zero, the real question becomes who software should serve.

Issue #98AI & Tech

Amazon's Globalstar Deal: From Cables to Satellites

Control over global telecom infrastructure is shifting from carriers to Big Tech.

Issue #95AI & Tech

Smell, the Last Sense AI Still Lacks

Intelligence isn't just in the head — truly embodied AI still doesn't have a nose.

Issue #92AI & Tech

An AI Ran a Store—and Paid Women Less

When you hand a decision over to a machine, who ends up owning the bias inside it?

Issue #90AI & Tech

Hancom's PDF Tool Hits #1 on GitHub Trending

35 years of document know-how just got cashed into global currency for the first time.

Issue #85AI & Tech

The Sheet of Paper That's Killing America's Prisoners

While regulators take one step, underground chemists sprint ten.

Issue #82AI & Tech

What Is an AI Harness? The Secret Behind 100x Productivity

The Claude Code leak settled it: the gap between AI users comes not from intelligence, but from the shell wrapped around the model.

Issue #77AI & Tech

Krafton Did What ChatGPT Said. The Court Reversed It All.

The CEO who let ChatGPT make the call ended up owing not ₩325 billion (~$250M) — but trust.

Issue #76AI & Tech

Italy's New Law: Paid Leave When Your Pet Is Sick

Italy just made pet sick leave a legal right — and Korea's numbers suggest it might not be far behind.

Issue #73AI & Tech

Tokens Are the Product: Inside Alibaba's Token Hub

In China, the idealism of AI research is colliding head-on with the realities of monetizing a business.

Issue #68AI & Tech

The Price of One Token Changes Everything

A 125x gap — $25 vs $0.20 per million tokens — is quietly redrawing who can afford to run AI

Issue #67AI & Tech

The End of MAU—And Now MRR Can't Be Trusted Either

AI firms' 'annual revenue' is just monthly revenue × 12 — a fiction that breaks once inference costs hit margins directly.

Issue #62AI & Tech

We Asked 81,000 People What They Want From AI

What people truly wanted from AI wasn't faster work — it was the life beyond that work

Issue #60AI & Tech

The New Moon Race: Why Go Back At All?

Returning to the Moon isn't a technology race — it's a contest over who gets to write the rules first.

Issue #54AI & Tech

Inside America's $165 Billion Bet to Rebuild Chipmaking

America invented the semiconductor — now it's relearning how to make one, with $165 billion riding on the Arizona desert.

Issue #52AI & Tech

Adobe Paid $75M Over Dark Pattern Subscription Traps

If signing up takes one click but canceling takes six, that's not UX — that's a trap.

Issue #51AI & Tech

How a Memory-Saving Algorithm Tanked Memory Stocks

Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm rattled memory stocks Wednesday — but what actually got shaken?

Issue #49AI & Tech

OpenAI's Five-Punch Day Reveals Its Real Strategy Shift

Sora didn't fail — OpenAI abandoned it on purpose.

Issue #43AI & Tech

NVIDIA GTC 2026: The Blueprint, Not the Chips

One trillion dollars in order visibility, a $20 billion acquisition paying off, and the 'token factory' business model

Issue #42AI & Tech

AI Is Getting Smarter. Is It Also Getting More Alike?

A NeurIPS award-winning study finds that leading AI models converge on nearly identical answers to open-ended questions.

Issue #41AI & Tech

Could a One-Won Stamp on Every Email Kill Spam?

In a world where sending a message costs nothing, your attention became a free resource up for grabs.

Issue #34AI & Tech

Does Mouth Taping Actually Help You Sleep?

200 million views vs. 213 test subjects — tracking the science behind the mouth-taping trend

Issue #35AI & Tech

Prediction Markets: Every Crime on Record, Zero Convictions

Prediction markets welcomed insiders to make their forecasts more accurate—now that bargain is coming due.

Issue #29AI & Tech

AI Agents Are Ready — We're the Ones Who Aren't

The real bottleneck in agent adoption isn't capability. It's trust.

Issue #16AI & Tech

Rare Earths, Nuclear Arms, Energy: The 2026 Unraveling

Rare earths, nuclear arms control, and energy dominance are shifting together—miss the structure, and all you're left with is emotion.

Issue #19AI & Tech

AI Agents Will Pay Online Soon. Korea's Door Is Locked.

As infrastructure for AI-agent payments takes shape globally, Korea's closed regulatory structure is locking it out before it even arrives.

Issue #17AI & Tech

Buying GPUs Isn't Enough: AI Infra's Real Battleground

The real bottleneck in AI infrastructure isn't chips — it's whoever locks up power and memory first who wins.

Issue #18AI & Tech

TikTok's Infinite Scroll: Why the EU Calls It Illegal

Addiction isn't a willpower problem. The EU just held platform design responsible—for the first time

Issue #23AI & Tech

The SaaS Stock Crash Isn't Really About AI

Software is shifting from a divergence phase to convergence—survival favors those who deliver action, not summaries.

Issue #20AI & Tech

South Korea's R&D Spending Can't Win the Talent War

Why the world's No. 2 R&D spender by GDP share just fell outside the global top 25 in talent competitiveness.

Issue #21AI & Tech

Silicon Valley Is Quietly Running on Chinese AI

Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi and MiniMax are moving into production. The numbers behind Chinese open-source AI adoption in Silicon Valley.

Issue #24AI & Tech

Why Almost Every Brand Community Fails

A community's essence isn't a platform—it's showing up, again and again.

Issue #22AI & Tech

Why Wrong Pundits Sell Memberships, Not Apologies

Failing to predict the market is human; refusing to admit it turns analysis into a cult.

Issue #12AI & Tech

Brainwave-Trained Robots: Why China and the U.S. Are All In

AI's next textbook isn't a book—it's the human brain itself.

Issue #3AI & Tech

Robots at $5 an Hour: What Will Humans Do?

The question is shifting from how well robots perform to what humans do.