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The Memory Supercycle Paradox: Samsung’s Record Profit and a 7% Crash

DDR memory modules and a CPU representing the AI memory supercycle

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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Korea Memory Chip Investment Won’t Fix Ramageddon — It Re-Rates the Duopoly That Caused It

Korea Memory Chip Investment Won't Fix technology

On June 29, 2026, President Lee Jae Myung stood between Samsung’s Lee Jae-yong and SK’s Chey Tae-won and unveiled the largest Korea memory chip investment ever announced. “Over $550 billion,” most outlets wrote, framed as the cure for “Ramageddon” — … Read more

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It Wasn’t Superintelligence — It Was a Classifier: How Anthropic’s Safety Wall Fell

It Wasn't Superintelligence — It Was technology

120,000 characters. 24 hours. One classifier layer. That is roughly the shape of the failure behind the Anthropic export ban — the order that, by June 12, 2026, had the U.S. Commerce Department pulling Anthropic’s most capable model off the … Read more

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