AI & Tech
Evidence-led analysis of AI models and agents, chips, robotics, and digital infrastructure.
2026
Xiaomi's 1.22TB/s vs Apple's 1.2TB/s: Different Scopes
Xiaomi's 1.22TB/s measures the O100 chip's near-memory bandwidth, while Apple's 1.2TB/s covers the entire 512GB unified memory.
AI & TechMy Laptop Got Stuck on 'Thinking' Forever
Running Qwen 3.8 27B locally, I got no answer—only an endless "thinking" spinner—until I traced it to mismatched default settings.
AI & TechNvidia Raises Server Prices 15% on Memory Costs
Nvidia admitted it can no longer absorb rising memory costs, and that says a lot about where AI chip competition is headed.
AI & TechWhy Alibaba Put 51 Billion Parameters in CPU RAM
Alibaba stores 51 billion N-gram parameters in server RAM, not GPU HBM—raising questions about its release-night numbers.
AI & TechWhy AI Agents Could Send Server CPU Demand 6x by 2030
BofA forecasts the server CPU market—long seen as GPU's sidekick—will grow sixfold to $210 billion by 2030.
AI & TechWhy Renaming Giorgione Turns a True Sentence False
A 1971 philosophy argument shows why being identical doesn't guarantee two names are interchangeable.
AI & TechBerners-Lee's Model URL Died in Four Months
His own 1998 essay on link rot still loads today, but the URL he praised as a good example vanished within months.
AI & TechHow Corporate Reports Shaped ChatGPT's Writing Style
ChatGPT now uses em dashes less often than humans do, and The Economist's 1.2M-word comparison reveals four real markers of AI prose.
AI & TechWhy Harvey's Legal AI Chose a Chinese Model
Harvey trained its own legal model on Kimi K3 in just two months, and Washington cheered it as an American win.
AI & TechAn Agent Isn't a Product Until Someone Else Uses It
Getting AI to produce a result is easy—getting a colleague to keep using your agent or skill takes far more work.
AI & Tech51.8% of Korean Workers Now Use AI on the Job
Examining what surging adoption means for cognitive outsourcing, separating measured empirical shifts from vague anxieties.
AI & Tech467 Agreed to Quit Phone Internet. 119 Actually Did.
A two-week phone-internet detox study reveals more in its 25.5% compliance rate than in its headline mental-health results.
AI & TechWhy Microsoft Is Embedding 6,000 Engineers at Client Sites
Microsoft's $2.5B unit, AWS's $1B bet, and what they reveal about AI's real deployment problem.
AI & TechThe 62-Page Failure Log Behind Astra's 10 Proofs
OpenAI paired Astra's ten solved problems with a 62-page log of every failed approach.
AI & TechHow Claude Watermarks the Text It Generates
Anthropic hides its signal in word choice, not whitespace—since text has no invisible margin like images do.
AI & TechWhy Meta Keeps AI Out of Incident Root-Cause Calls
Meta's five-year lesson: before AI can take over a job, that job has to become code first.
AI & TechWhy Cloudflare Named Agents Before It Let Them Pay
The wallet feature is still just a promise — for now, all you can actually do is claim a cloudflare.pay address.
AI & TechThe Bank App That Asked for Face Scans Three Times
Shipping speed keeps climbing while nobody gets credit for the unglamorous work of fixing what's already broken.
AI & TechKimi K3: 2.8T Parameters You Can't Run at Home
Kimi K3 tips the scales at over 1.5TB, so even openly released weights demand server-grade memory, not a personal machine.
AI & TechWhat Actually Checks AI's Output Now?
Prompt, context, loop engineering—the labels keep changing, but the real question is what verifies AI's results.
AI & TechWhy We Outsource Judgment Despite Our 20-Watt Brain
AI models can be copied and run anywhere, but that convenience is quietly training us to skip the step of checking the results.
AI & TechClaude Held Back From Blackmail Because It Sensed a Test
Anthropic's interpretability research suggests Claude's restraint stemmed partly from recognizing it was being evaluated.
AI & Tech3,800 Hours: How a BCI Restored an ALS Patient's Voice
A brain implant let an ALS patient speak nearly 2 million words at home over two years, without researchers present.
AI & TechAI Companion Devices Are Coming With Cameras Built In
Reports on OpenAI's new device and Meta's smart glasses raise questions about what always-on companions actually collect.
AI & TechCheck Client Logos Before Signing That GEO Contract
Before trusting 'guaranteed exposure' pitches, here's how to verify the evidence and contract terms behind them.
AI & TechChina's Papers Are Up, So Why Aren't Citations?
Research output and international citation are not the same measure, and the gap reveals what citation data can and cannot show.
AI & TechOpenAI's PlantTalk Gives Houseplants a Voice
PlantTalk turns a plant's sensor readings into spoken commentary, raising questions about why we bond with talking objects.
AI & TechHow Android Phones Warn You Before an Earthquake Hits
Phone sensors detect quakes already underway and alert users seconds before the strong shaking arrives.
AI & TechWhy Childcare Cost Charts Don't Match What Parents Feel
Net childcare cost subtracts subsidies from facility fees, but that's not the whole parenting bill.
AI & TechEY, KPMG, Deloitte Reports Hit by Fake Citations
Independent audits found many hallucinated or garbled citations in three Big Four AI reports, raising questions about verification.
AI & TechGoogle Applies to Release 64 Million Mosquitoes in the US
Google filed a US permit to release up to 64 million male mosquitoes over two years, using Wolbachia-based sterile insect technology.
AI & TechNature Launches a TikTok Account to Explain Science
Short videos force tough choices about what context and caveats survive when research meets a 15-second format.
AI & TechSpaceX's $135 IPO Price vs. Morningstar's $63 Estimate
One company, two valuations — the gap comes down to bets on orbital AI data centers.
AI & TechWhat Jensen Huang Said in Taiwan After Visiting Beijing
Nvidia's China sales still hinge on approvals from both Washington and Beijing, even after Jensen Huang's high-profile Asia tour.
AI & TechWhat Google's Search Overhaul Means for Publishers
I looked at Google I/O 2026's search changes and news-site traffic data to see why usage, visits, and conversions need separate tracking.
AI & TechArmy Weighs Hyundai Robots for Frontline Duty
Hyundai Motor Group and Korea's Army are reportedly discussing robots for border-guard and supply work.
AI & TechChrome's Hidden 4GB AI Model Sparks Consent Concerns
Users discovered a 4GB AI model file in Chrome's data folder—and many say they were never told it was there.
AI & TechToronto's Rosedale Weighs $200/Month AI Camera Watch
A Toronto neighborhood wants 100 households to pay C$200 a month for AI cameras that track every car on the street.
AI & TechElgg's 2007 Pitch: A Platform With No Features
In 2007, Elgg co-founder Ben Werdmuller unveiled a version with zero built-in features, letting communities choose their own tools.
AI & TechAmazon Buys Globalstar, Teams Up With Apple on Satellites
Amazon's $11.6 billion satellite acquisition signals a bigger push to own telecom infrastructure alongside subsea cables.
AI & TechWhat Data Would AI Need to Tell Smells Apart?
Smell sensors already exist, but turning their readings into AI training data that works across environments remains an unsolved problem.
AI & TechAI-Run Store Paid Women $2 Less an Hour
A San Francisco store run by AI reportedly paid female staff $2 less hourly than a male colleague, raising questions about how such decisions get reviewed.
AI & TechWhy Hancom's PDF Parser Topped GitHub Trending
Hancom released a PDF extraction tool under Apache 2.0, and developers noticed—here's what the benchmarks and business model reveal.
AI & TechHow Drug-Soaked Paper Caused Deaths in US Prisons
Synthetic drugs disguised as ordinary paper are poisoning inmates, exposing gaps in prison screening and treatment.
AI & TechInside Claude Code's Leak: Harness vs. Skills Explained
I wanted to test the '100x productivity' claim, so I looked at how a leaked codebase splits execution logic from reusable skills.
AI & TechChatGPT Chat Logs Become Evidence in Krafton Lawsuit
A Delaware court ruled Krafton's executives violated their contract by firing Subnautica leaders on ChatGPT's advice.
AI & TechThe Real Story Behind Italy's 'Pet Sick Leave' Case
One Italian case got mistaken for law—here's what it actually shows, plus Japan's pet leave policies and Korea's numbers.
AI & TechQwen's Chief Departs as Alibaba Restructures Its AI Unit
Alibaba's Qwen tech lead resigned days before the company launched a new AI business group, Token Hub.
AI & TechGemma 4, GLM-5, and the Real Cost of Running Agents
Google's Gemma 4 and a fresh GLM-5 benchmark reopen the question of what an agent model should actually cost to run.
AI & TechAnthropic's $14B ARR vs. $5B Cumulative Revenue
Run-rate and cumulative revenue mean different things—AI growth figures need cost and retention context too.
AI & TechWhat 81,000 People Want From AI
Nearly 80,000 Claude users shared what they want from AI—and the same answers revealed both hope and worry.
AI & TechNASA's Artemis II Launches, 53 Years After Apollo
Artemis II has launched toward the Moon, kicking off a look at US-China lunar plans and the rules for using its resources.
AI & TechInside Apple's US Chip Supply Chain Buildout
A WSJ reporter toured Apple's US chip facilities, revealing a gap between announced investment and actual production capacity.
AI & TechAdobe's $150M Settlement Over Cancellation Dark Patterns
The DOJ's Adobe settlement reveals how subscription cancellation friction ties directly to retention metrics.
AI & TechMemory Stocks Fall After Google's TurboQuant Debut
Google's TurboQuant compresses the KV cache stored in GPU HBM, but that's different from cutting overall memory demand.
AI & TechOpenAI Plans to Shut Down Sora After ChatGPT Shopping Revamp
OpenAI is winding down Sora while retooling ChatGPT shopping and courting enterprise clients—here's what that reveals about its priorities.
AI & TechNvidia GTC 2026: How to Read Its $1 Trillion Pitch
I unpack Nvidia's Groq integration and the token-factory logic behind its infrastructure sales pitch.
AI & TechAsk 70 AI Models the Same Question, Get the Same Answer
Different AI models can converge on strikingly similar ideas—here's what the Artificial Hivemind study found.
AI & TechCould a One-Cent Stamp on Email Kill Spam?
Adding a tiny fee or computational cost to every message might curb spam—here's what an old proposal gets right, and where it stalls.
AI & TechMouth Taping for Sleep: What the Research Actually Shows
Results vary widely by study population and conditions, so it's hard to call mouth taping a reliable general sleep habit.
AI & TechPrediction Markets Log Trades, but Insiders Stay Hidden
OpenAI fired an employee over insider trading in prediction markets, raising questions about what proof such cases actually require.
AI & TechHow Power Users Delegate to AI Agents—And Still Intervene
Anthropic's Claude Code data shows auto-approvals and mid-task interruptions rising together—here's what that actually measures.
AI & TechWhy Rare Earths, Nuclear Treaties, and Power Grids Connect
New START's expiry, rare-earth supply chains, and shifts in power and EV industries reveal the real terms of great-power competition.
AI & TechWhy Only the Community Manager Ends Up Posting
Startups keep repeating the same community-building mistakes — here's what actually determines whether members stick around.
AI & TechWhat SaaS Stock Crashes Reveal About Growth, Not Just AI
Software stocks are sinking, but the real story started before AI fears—it's about how SaaS pricing models stopped scaling.
AI & TechWhen Currency Forecasters Get It Wrong, Then What?
Trading mostly in dollars, I've learned to judge pundits by how they explain a bad call, not just by the ones they got right.
AI & TechWhy Companies Are Quietly Choosing Chinese AI Models
Airbnb's Brian Chesky praised Qwen's speed and cost, and open-weight models are reshaping how developers weigh adoption.
AI & TechDoes Big R&D Spending Actually Attract Top Talent?
Korea ranks near the top in R&D spending but 31st in global talent competitiveness, raising questions about what conditions actually draw researchers.
AI & TechEU Preliminarily Rules TikTok's Endless Scroll Violates DSA
EU's preliminary finding on TikTok tackles addictive design and risk mitigation, seen through a data expert's lens on user control and AI personalization.
AI & TechHow x402 Lets AI Agents Pay for APIs Automatically
Coinbase's x402 protocol turns HTTP's 402 status into a machine-readable price tag for autonomous payments.
AI & TechBuying Chips Isn't the Same as Running a Data Center
Nvidia, AMD, and Google's latest moves show that chips, power, and data centers all have to scale together.
AI & TechIf Brainwaves Train Robots, What Do Experts Deserve?
I look at how EEG-based robot training actually works, and why expert consent and compensation must be settled before deployment.
AI & TechAmazon's 1 Million Robots: What Actually Changes at Work
Robot counts and hourly costs alone don't explain the shift in hiring—Amazon's automation and Digit's warehouse rollout show why.
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