The AI Productivity Paradox: A Central Bank Measured It
The Bank of Korea surveyed 5,512 workers: AI saves 1.5 hours a week, but the correlation with actual output is near zero. Why time saved is not productivity.
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What Does CoreWeave Do? AI Cloud Business Explained
What does CoreWeave do? See how its GPU cloud works, who uses it, how it makes money, its NVIDIA relationship, and the risks behind its rapid growth.
What Is CXMT? China's DRAM Manufacturer Explained
CXMT is the largest DRAM maker in China, now the number four global supplier, closing in on Micron on capacity while its HBM chips stay years behind.
AI Data Center Financing 2026: Inside the $700B Buildout
How AI infrastructure gets financed in 2026: Helix (KKR/Nvidia), Apollo/Blackstone (Anthropic), Stargate (OpenAI), and what this means for model pricing.
Who Is Matei Zaharia? Spark, Databricks and AI
Who is Matei Zaharia? The Apache Spark creator and Databricks co-founder also helped build MLflow. Here is how his work shaped modern data and AI systems.
OpenAI Hardware: The Economics of Its AI Speaker
OpenAI is spending nearly 6.5 billion dollars to build a screenless AI smart speaker. The business logic, the running costs, and the Apple lawsuit risk.
Is the 2026 Memory Cycle Peaking? Signals to Watch
Consumer DDR5 has gone flat while contract and HBM prices keep climbing. Here are the signals that show whether the 2026 memory cycle is peaking.
AI Search Broke the Web's Business Model. What Replaces It.
68% of searches end without a click. AI Overviews cut publisher traffic 40%. What replaces the click economy in the citation era.
The Publisher's Revenue Playbook for the AI Search Era
AI Overviews cut publisher clicks 40%. Six revenue strategies publishers are deploying now, from per-query monetization to session-level optimization.
AI Video Models in 2026: Sora Out, China Leads
OpenAI is shutting Sora down while Chinese models top the independent video leaderboards on quality and cost. The state of AI video, July 2026.