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Hangzhou Priced the Legal-AI Discount
DeepSeek's inference rate of $0.28 per million input tokens sits roughly twelve times below GPT-4o equivalents, making contract review economically tractable for mid-tier law firms. A Hangzhou court ruling of 30 April 2026 established that those margin gains do not constitute 'objective circumstances' under China's Labour Contract Law — firms cannot push the cost of AI transition onto workers. The ruling fixes precisely where the legal-AI discount lands.
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The Chart Is Wrong
A viral chart says China is 30% of the world economy and Europe 15%. Almost every number on it is wrong, and which ruler you use flips who's winning. The real scoreboard, read honestly. Part 1 of The Real Map of Europe.
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