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Analysis of how AI and technology reshape company strategy, organizations, markets, and capital.
2026
How You Sell GPU Compute Changes Your Margins
Buying servers, subleasing them, or billing by API token each demand different upfront cash and payback timelines.
BusinessWhat Counts as One 'Resolution' in AI Support Pricing
Fin charges $0.99 per resolved ticket, but the definition of "resolved" decides what you're really paying for.
BusinessSamsung and ASML Both Bet on the Same AI Startup
Mistral's last two funding rounds were both led by companies that own factories, not venture funds.
BusinessWhat to Check First Before Advertising in AI Shopping
Ad formats matter less than whether your product data can survive an AI's comparison and checkout flow.
BusinessMonday.com Cut 20% of Its Staff as Revenue Grew 22%
Much of this earnings season's profit came from layoffs—but where a company cuts reveals more than how many it lets go.
BusinessWhy IKEA Names Its Bookcases After Men
A naming workshop I ran and IKEA's product-naming rules both show why criteria should come before candidates.
BusinessAnthropic Uses Stripe, Yet Reviews Billing In-House
Anthropic runs on Stripe but still evaluates building its own billing—here's where control over pricing logic matters most.
BusinessWhen an AI Agent Orders Wrong, Who's Liable?
Clicking approve doesn't settle liability—intent, delegated authority, execution logs, and recovery options all matter.
BusinessWashington's Fix for AI Theft: Quietly Dumb Down Answers
The detection trigger is usage pattern, not nationality—so Korean firms could trip the same alarm.
BusinessOptimistic About AI, Yet Afraid of Falling Behind
AI optimism, fear of falling behind, and organizational readiness are separate issues—here's what Korean surveys actually show.
BusinessHiring Freezes: The Overlooked Side of AI and Jobs
Beyond layoffs, quiet cuts to hiring plans deserve the same scrutiny when we talk about AI's effect on jobs.
BusinessASML's AI Diagnostics Raise New Data Control Questions
Beyond benchmarks: why ASML's AI rollout puts data storage, training rights, and access control on the negotiating table.
BusinessZurich Tested 100 Students on Vibe Coding, No Code Shown
In a Zurich study, students who said they used LLMs more often actually built worse apps.
BusinessUS Federal White-Collar Prosecutions Fall to 340 in a Month
Federal white-collar prosecutions dropped 14.4% year-over-year, and I ask what falling oversight means for corporate diligence.
BusinessWhy AI Agent Recommendations Fail: Not Yet One Category
Different tools are all sold as 'AI agents'—compare their autonomy, execution rights, and approval steps before you pick one.
BusinessWhat $100 of AI Capex Buys, and How Long It Lasts
Using BNP Paribas's capex breakdown, I trace chip, network, power, cooling, and facility costs—and why replacement cycles vary by supplier.
BusinessThe Company That Asks Marketers What They've Built
Andrew Ng says AI won't destroy jobs, then admits his marketers all know how to code.
BusinessFrance Killed Its Cold-Call Opt-Out List
France scrapped its do-not-call registry for opt-in consent, even as voice spam keeps climbing in Korea.
BusinessThe Phone Kids Get at Dinner Isn't for Learning
New York just banned generative AI in public schools for a year, but Korea's real screen-time problem sits at the dinner table.
BusinessAn AI Agent Deleted a Production Database in 9 Seconds
Speed, not intelligence, caused the outage—so the real fix is giving humans enough time to notice and recover.
BusinessOpenAI Paused Training, Then Cut Its Top Model's Prices
Three days after halting frontier-model training, OpenAI slashed prices and expanded limits on models it had already shipped.
BusinessHow $1 AI Podcasts Find Their Listeners
Even as production costs fall to a dollar an episode, reaching listeners still requires clearing a gate.
BusinessWhen the UFO Prophecy Failed, the Prophet Recanted
A 1954 doomsday cult leader retracted her UFO prophecy within weeks instead of doubling down, according to newly unsealed archives and a 2026 paper.
BusinessInference Margins Hit 80%. Why Hasn't AI Pricing Moved?
I separate what AI firms report as margin from what cloud providers actually charge for inference.
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