For four parts, this series aimed one question at the world outside you: is that video real, is that article real, is that expert real, is that chart real? This...
For four parts, this series aimed one question at the world outside you: is that video real, is that article real, is that expert real, is that chart real? This last part turns the question around, onto the hardest target … Read more
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In September 2020, two respected institutions measured the exact same thing — the price of Seoul apartments — and one reported a monthly rise 7.3 times larger than the other. Same city, same month, same homes. The gap was not … Read more
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Sixty-eight market experts. Six thousand five hundred and eighty-four public predictions over eight years. Average accuracy: 47 percent — lower than a coin flip. That scorecard comes from CXO Advisory’s “Guru Grades” project (2005–2012), and it is exactly why vetting … Read more
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A team that runs an AI content pipeline once shipped a batch of auto-generated citations. Twelve reference URLs looked flawless — real-sounding titles, tidy domains, clean slugs. Six of them were dead 404s that pointed nowhere. That is the whole … Read more
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The face on the screen is your boss. The voice is his voice. He says, “Wire the payment to this account now.” The face, the tone, the little verbal tics — everything checks out. And yet: is this real? A … Read more
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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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