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in 2026 it pulled the plug on an AI model — and sovereignty went from slogan to survival.Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTsocietyhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/mosquito-hunting-with-code/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/mosquito-hunting-with-code/Why Google is breeding 32 million mosquitoes to release in the USSat, 13 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-techhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/135-dollar-rocket-bubble/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/135-dollar-rocket-bubble/Institutions bid 4x the offering while Morningstar says $63 — the gap is a bet on data centers that don't exist yet.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-techhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/paper-to-short-video/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/paper-to-short-video/Why a 157-year-old science journal joined TikTok — and what gets left out when research is squeezed into short-form.Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-techhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/fax-office-automation-history/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/fax-office-automation-history/Workers feel 3x faster while executives measure 1.8% — the exact gap that opened when word processors first hit the office.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTsocietyhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/un-population-miss-230k/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/un-population-miss-230k/Fertility's turning point in country after country lines up not with economic crises, but with the year smartphones arrivedTue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/korea-app-regulation-alone/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/korea-app-regulation-alone/From July 1, every image uploaded to Korean communities gets AI-scanned — at operators' full expense, with no government subsidy.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTsocietyhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/starbucks-pulls-ai/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/starbucks-pulls-ai/The vendor promised 99% accuracy. The field chose human hands instead.Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/what-is-an-ai-harness/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/what-is-an-ai-harness/The Claude Code leak settled it: the gap between AI users comes not from intelligence, but from the shell wrapped around the model.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-techhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/teens-ai-conversations/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/teens-ai-conversations/The headlines scream danger, but kids turned to chatbots because we left them alone firstSat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTsocietyhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/token-price-changes-everything/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/token-price-changes-everything/A 125x gap — $25 vs $0.20 per million tokens — is quietly redrawing who can afford to run AIFri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-techhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/garage-to-3-8-trillion/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/garage-to-3-8-trillion/Three growth curves — economic, ecosystem, and creative — explain why the company's flywheel is so hard to break.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusinesshttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/nvidia-gtc-2026-blueprint/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/nvidia-gtc-2026-blueprint/One trillion dollars in order visibility, a $20 billion acquisition paying off, and the 'token factory' business modelFri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTai-techhttps://oztalking.com/en/issues/rice-farming-personality/https://oztalking.com/en/issues/rice-farming-personality/A decade of evidence — from a Science cover study to a Starbucks chair experiment — links the crops our ancestors grew to how we behave todayTue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTbusiness