Business

Analysis of how AI and technology reshape company strategy, organizations, markets, and capital.

2026

Issue #341

Neocloud Shakeout: Why Credit, Not GPUs, Decides Survival

Who can actually borrow money is what separates the neoclouds that survive from those that don't.

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Issue #339

Will Banks Lend to AI Companies With No Land, No Factory?

China's eight ministries are deliberately targeting one thing: how bank tellers think about collateral.

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Issue #338

Why Civilization Has Only Changed One-Third in 35 Years

Sid Meier and his team explain the rule for sequels—and what happened when Civilization 7 crossed it.

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Issue #337

Anthropic Earned $16.8B in Q3. Why Call It 'Over'?

What comparison makes 45% quarterly growth look disappointing—and a slowdown cause I experienced firsthand.

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Issue #336

OpenAI Fired the Researchers Who Studied AI Oversight

A DNS leak, a canceled model launch, and three researcher firings all converged at OpenAI within a single month.

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Issue #335

Brexit at Ten: How Much Has Britain Actually Lost?

Tracing where the '6% loss' figure comes from—and how much of it is really Covid, the energy crisis, and seven prime ministers

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Issue #334

Google Open-Sources ML Drift, Its On-Device GPU Engine

I read this release through the lens of Vons, a tiny decision model I'm building for CPUs and browsers.

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Issue #333

One Computer Per Agent—Now the Problem Is the Keys

Meta, OpenAI, Grok Bot, and Google all converged on the same design—now the open question is logins and passkeys.

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Issue #332

The Memex: A 1945 Machine Built for Trails, Not Storage

Vannevar Bush's memex wasn't meant to hoard books—it was meant to preserve the paths your thinking takes.

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Issue #330

Same PVC Resin, Five Different Anti-Dumping Rates

Each line of the tariff schedule reflects its own company ledger.

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Issue #329

Crypto's 2026 Shutdown Wave: 81 Projects Gone Quiet

Prices held up, but trading vanished—stacking 81 shutdown notices reveals what actually died and what survived.

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Issue #327

Korea's Mobile Plan Overhaul Came in 5 Waves, Not 1

Persistent search spikes reveal why consumers are still struggling to decode what actually changed months after the official rollout.

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Issue #328

Servers Take 2 Months, Foundries Take 4 Years

The further upstream in the supply chain, the later today's decisions are graded.

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Issue #326

Four Months on Leave, and the AI Models Changed

The share of women in AI roles drops sharply as compensation tiers climb, LinkedIn data reveals.

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Issue #325

OpenAI's $20 Billion Gap: A Counting Trick, Not a Loss

Thursday's panic over a missing $20 billion in OpenAI revenue was really a clash between gross and net accounting.

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Issue #324

The Blockchain Use Case Hiding in SK Hynix Futures

A Bloomberg columnist who once mocked blockchain now credits perpetual futures for his change of heart.

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Issue #322

Searching Tax Arrears, Finding a Debt Collector Job Ad

Korea's National Tax Service hired thousands of debt collectors this year, quietly linking two very different searches.

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Issue #321

The Inspector Sets AI's Speed Limit

What Amodei really wanted was a health inspector stationed in the kitchen.

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Issue #320

Before the KFTC Reviews a Merger, You Must Self-Certify

Filing comes before review—here's the order of judgment calls Korean merger filers must make before opening KFTC forms.

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Issue #319

Grid Codes Are Turning Toward Data Centers

A term searched only 111 times a month still triggered two government meetings.

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Issue #318

The AI Comedian With 300K Followers Stole Every Joke

AI-generated comedians are lifting American stand-up sets verbatim, and Korean comedy stands on the same exposed ground.

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Issue #317

Inside AI Chips, the Memory Interface Eats the Edge

On Nvidia's Rubin die, HBM4 controllers and PHY reportedly claim about 16% of the priciest silicon real estate.

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Issue #316

Dark Patterns: Do Users Search for the Law or Coupang?

Korea's FTC released new dark pattern guidelines, revealing a stark divide between what the law bans and what frustrates users.

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Issue #315

The Same EMF-Blocking Sticker Test, Run Four Times in 12 Years

Government notices say both 'it's safe' and 'reduce exposure' on the same page

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