On July 7, 2026, Samsung Electronics did something no technology company had ever done. Its preliminary guidance showed ₩89.4 trillion ($58.4 billion) in operating profit for a single quarter —...
On July 7, 2026, Samsung Electronics did something no technology company had ever done. Its preliminary guidance showed ₩89.4 trillion ($58.4 billion) in operating profit for a single quarter — roughly 19 times what it earned a year earlier, its … Read more
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$4.40 versus $25. Same task, same class of answer, and the invoice arrives at roughly one-fifth the cost. When Z.ai shipped GLM-5.2 in June 2026 at $1.40 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output, the number that moved … Read more
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Eight days ago, TheByteDive looked at Palantir’s “sovereign AI engine” with NVIDIA and made an uncomfortable point: the value in the AI stack is migrating from the chip to the control layer, and the balance-sheet risk is that a nation … Read more
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A 3-billion-parameter model scored 94.3 on AIME 2026 — level with a 671B giant and above Gemini 3 Pro. The headlines called it a small model that beat the big ones. But the same model sits 17 points behind Claude … Read more
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We live in a time flooded with information. So did we actually get freer? It feels like we should have. Anything is one search away. Anyone can publish. And yet this final piece is about kicking away the ladder in … Read more
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Why does the most powerful person in a country lose sleep over a little laughter in a public square, or one song sung on the wrong night? He controls the army, the police, the courts, and the TV stations. Yet … Read more
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You walk into a natural-wine bar, an art gallery, or a fancy coffee shop, and something quiet tells you: this place is not quite for me. That small flinch is where this piece begins. Distinction and cultural capital — two … Read more
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Call the same ritual “gaslighting.” Or call it “meaning-making technology.” Either way, the parts inside stay astonishingly the same. Walk into a Hindu temple. Step into a country church. Sit with a Korean family around an ancestral rite table. Underneath, … Read more
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Three of Korea’s founding kings were not born the normal way. Jumong hatched from an egg. His mother laid that egg after a beam of sunlight chased her around a room. Bak Hyeokgeose and Kim Suro both came down from … Read more
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