AI & Tech
2026
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 & TechThe Houseplant That Talked to Me
The moment we can speak to something, we start a relationship with it.
AI & TechVenezuela's Quake Alert Came From Phones, Not Seismometers
How Google turned billions of smartphone accelerometers into the world's largest earthquake early warning network.
AI & TechEmpty 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.
AI & TechThree 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.
AI & TechKilling the World's Deadliest Animal With Code
Why Google is breeding 32 million mosquitoes to release in the US
AI & TechSpaceX 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.
AI & TechCan a 3-Minute Video Hold a Scientific Paper?
Why a 157-year-old science journal joined TikTok — and what gets left out when research is squeezed into short-form.
AI & TechWhat 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.
AI & TechThe 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
AI & TechNVIDIA 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