Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson
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A podcast about understanding how tech works and the way it is changing the world. Hosted by Andrew Sharp with Ben Thompson.
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(Preview) What’s Next for Apple and the App Store, The Risks of Continuing This Fight, More on Meta and Its AI Vision
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May 05, 2025 |
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(Preview) Meta and Its Many Plans in AI, Apple Gets Hammered in Court, The Costs of Waiting to Do the Right Thing
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May 01, 2025 |
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(Preview) All About AI Companions: Personalization Upsides, Dystopian Downsides, AI Therapy, Advertising Tension, and Lots More
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Apr 28, 2025 |
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Apple and the Ghosts of Companies Past, Privacy at the Expense of Performance, The Cook Question
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Apr 24, 2025 |
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(Preview) What Memory Can Do for ChatGPT, OpenAI's Future and Google's Circles Past, What College Football Can Teach Us About Tech
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Three Eras of Facebook (and the Internet), The Problems with FTC v. Meta, The Realities of Perfect Competition
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Apr 17, 2025 |
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(Preview) Apple Gets a Temporary Reprieve, The End of Internet 2.0, An Incomplete Tech Blog Post Canon
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Apr 14, 2025 |
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American Disruption, Tech’s Manufacturing History in Asia, The Power of Demand in an Uncertain Future
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Apr 10, 2025 |
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(Preview) xAI Buys X, The Bitter Lesson for Everyone, Everywhere, Google’s Only Hope in AI
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Mar 31, 2025 |
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(Preview) The Delights of Images in GPT, The Future of Graphic Design, Signal and Multiple Dimensions of Security
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Mar 27, 2025 |
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(Preview) Why Google Wants Wiz for $32 Billion, Xbox One and Bygone Streaming Hardware Dreams, Immortality and Daylight Saving Time
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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(Preview) Deep Research and OpenAI's Business Model, A Counterpoint on White Collar Concerns, The Future of Cognition and Companionship
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Mar 21, 2025 |
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(Preview) Should Apple Buy Perplexity?, What Apple Could Learn from IBM, Vision Pro and Its Vaporware
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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Apple History and Apple Psychology, How Apple Should Capitalize On Its AI Potential, Why It Probably Won't
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Mar 13, 2025 |
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(Preview) The Murky Future for the NBA, A Variety of Notes on Apple and AI, In Defense of Tech That Removes Friction
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Mar 10, 2025 |
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(Preview) YouTube Shall Inherit the Earth, NBC’s Peacock Strategy Then and Now, The Grim Future for Cable Networks
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Mar 06, 2025 |
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(Preview) Amazon Introduces an AI-Powered Alexa, Is OpenAI the New BlackBerry?, The Social Costs of Removing Friction
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Mar 03, 2025 |
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AI Promises and Chip Precariousness, Policy Recommendations and a Changing World, Concerns and Counterpoints
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Feb 27, 2025 |
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(Preview) Apple’s Answer to the UK, Encryption History and Privacy’s Future, Waiting for Drone Delivery in the U.S.
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Feb 24, 2025 |
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(Preview) Xi Jinping and China's Tech Companies, The Long-Run Implications of the Chip Ban, and a Pessimistic Outlook for Taiwan
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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(Preview) Experimenting With OpenAI’s Deep Research, Another ChatGPT Moment, Won’t Someone Think of the Entry-Level Employees?
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Feb 06, 2025 |
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(Preview) Apple Abandons Its Smart Glasses, Google as the Yellow Pages, LLMs and the Overton Window
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Feb 03, 2025 |
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The End of DeepSeek Week: Moneyball for AI, The Future of Compute Demand, Geopolitical Reality Checks, and More
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Jan 30, 2025 |
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(Preview) 72 Hours of DeepSeek Hysteria, What DeepSeek Means for Big Tech, Lessons on the Efficacy of Chip Controls
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Jan 27, 2025 |
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(Preview) The End of OpenAI and Microsoft, Risks and Rationale of the Stargate Project, DeepSeek-R1 and Bitter Lessons for the Future
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Jan 23, 2025 |
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(Preview) A Long Weekend for TikTok, Preparing for Trump and an Era of Upheaval, LeBron James as an iPhone
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Jan 20, 2025 |
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AI’s Uneven Arrival, TikTok’s Potential Departure, Xiaohongshu and the Delights of Cultural Exchange
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Jan 16, 2025 |
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(Preview) Meta’s Moderation Changes, Tech’s Evolving Political Calculus, The Importance and Difficulty of Maintaining Principles on the Internet
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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(Preview) What AI Could Mean for Aggregation Theory, o3 and Moore’s Law, More Questions Than Answers as Tech Enters 2025
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Jan 06, 2025 |
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Holiday Mailbag: The Next Intel, Google’s AI Revival, Modern Sportswriting, TSMC Mugs, Tutoring Takes, and Lots More
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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(Preview) Google’s Willow Chip, Drones as a Platform and Anduril Follow-Up, Building Inside and Outside Silicon Valley
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Dec 16, 2024 |
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(Preview) Anduril and the Lattice Partner Program, A New Direction for Defense Tech, OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Pro
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Dec 12, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag: Building Toward Self-Driving Computers, Capitalism and Its Trade-Offs, The Reels-ification of 'X'
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Dec 09, 2024 |
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Gelsinger Out at Intel, 20 Years of Structural Challenges and Strategic Blindspots, The Board and What’s Next
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Dec 05, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag: AppLovin on a Tear, The Business of OnlyFans, Questions on OpenAI and Elon Musk
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Dec 02, 2024 |
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(Preview) LLM Utilities, Google Disruption, Remote Work Angst, Family Tech Support, and a Thanksgiving Mailbag
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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America and the Trade Status Quo, Tariffs and What May Come Next, A Chance to Build in Tech and Beyond
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Nov 22, 2024 |
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(Preview) Monday Mailbag: Netflix and Its Mike Tyson Adventures; WBD Settles with the NBA; Lessons from Building Passport
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Nov 18, 2024 |
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(Preview) Today’s Internet and Tomorrow’s AI Innovation, Progress Reportedly Slowing for New LLMs, The Vision Pro as a Productivity Device
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Nov 14, 2024 |
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(Preview) What Trump 2.0 Could Mean for Tech, Questions on Antitrust, EU and Growth, Elon Musk and the Election
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Nov 07, 2024 |
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(Preview) Monday Mailbag: The James Harden of Tech; Bandwidth and the Video Takeover; Gen AI and Ads; Political Donation Texts
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Nov 04, 2024 |
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Meta and an Abundance of AI Opportunities, When AI Integrates Into the Feed, AI for UI and One Emailer's Dismay
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Oct 31, 2024 |
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(Preview) Monday Mailbag: AI Abundance and Enterprise Questions; Automated Podcasts; Big Tech and China Tariffs; Reading Habits
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Oct 28, 2024 |
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Understanding Stablecoins and Their Utility, Why Stripe is Buying Bridge, Virtual Reality for NFL Quarterbacks
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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(Preview) Monday Mailbag: The Value of the ChatGPT Brand; OpenAI and Its AGI Clause; Bitter Lesson Follow-Up; Orion and Big Tech Recruiting
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Oct 21, 2024 |
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Tesla and the Road to True Autonomy, Strategy that Starts with the Dream, Regulation and Market Questions
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Oct 17, 2024 |
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(Preview) Monday Mailbag: A Moment for SpaceX; After the End of the Beginning; Tesla's 'We, Robot' Event; Waymo Follow-Up
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Oct 14, 2024 |
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(Preview) Google and the Search for Antitrust Remedies, Network Effects and Natural Monopolies, Waymo vs. Tesla for the Future of Transportation
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Oct 10, 2024 |
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(Preview) Waymo and Our Automated Future, Augmented Reality and Form Factor Questions, NotebookLM and Media Consumption
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Oct 02, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag Monday: Meta and the Smartphone; Upheaval at OpenAI; Dossier Censorship; ESPN and Media Consumption
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Sep 30, 2024 |
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Meta Previews an Augmented Reality Future, Orion and the Apple Vision Pro, A Call for More Live Keynotes
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Sep 27, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag Monday: Sports Gambling Apps; PlayStation’s New Price Point; Robotics and AI Upheaval; Apple’s ‘Intelligence’ Ads
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Sep 23, 2024 |
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(Preview) OpenAI's Latest Model Is Not Like the Others, Copilot Pages and Salesforce Agents, When AI Moves from Copilots to Airplanes
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Sep 19, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag Monday: Politics as Monoculture; Startup Anxiety in Europe and China; WhatsApp Spam
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Sep 16, 2024 |
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The Strategic Logic of the iPhone 16, Services Upside and Downside, Steve Jobs and Modern Apple
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Sep 12, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag Monday: Three Apple Questions, Intel and Founder Mode, 230 Follow-Up, China’s Chip Ambitions
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Sep 09, 2024 |
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Understanding Intel’s Decline, Searching for Structural CHIPS Solutions, The Future of Section 230 Protections
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Sep 05, 2024 |
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The Arrest of Pavel Durov, Encryption Explanations and Moderation Questions, Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter to Congress
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag: Disney’s Taylor Swift Expansion, Canva and IPOs, Perplexity in Paris, SaaS for Cars, The Online Recipe Economy
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Aug 26, 2024 |
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(Preview) Canva and the Disruption Ideal, What AI Could Mean for Graphic Design, Fubo and Venu and FUBAR Post-Cable Plans
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Aug 22, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag: Smartphone Subsidies, Apple Intelligence and Search, Surgeon Groupchats, The Metaverse and AI
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Aug 19, 2024 |
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(Preview) Computing History and Android’s Future, More Adventures with Apple Policies, The Olympics and a Cord Bag Tour
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Aug 15, 2024 |
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(Preview) Competing Principles and U.S. v. Google, What’s Next for Apple, Questions on Aggregators, Elon and Crunchyroll
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Aug 09, 2024 |
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(Preview) Nike as a Tech Story, Follow-Up on Meta and the Hyperscalers, Peacock and the NBC Olympics Strategy
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Aug 01, 2024 |
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(Preview) Llama 3.1 and Zuckerberg’s Open Approach, Lessons from the Crowdstrike Mess, Understanding Netflix Strategy and Apple Spending
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Jul 25, 2024 |
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(Preview) What Trump Could Mean for Tech, X as a News Source, Two Testimonials from ChatGPT Users
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Jul 18, 2024 |
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(Preview) Once More Unto the EU Breach, No Apple or Microsoft on OpenAI’s Board, Paramount Wants to Be a Tech Company
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Jul 11, 2024 |
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(Preview) Perplexity and the Media, Burning Furniture at the Structural Nadir, The EU and the Costs of Ambiguity
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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The FTC Sues Adobe, Keynote Season and Progress, A Few More Apple Questions
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Jun 20, 2024 |
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(Preview) Your WWDC Emails: GenAI for Work Email, Developer Questions, Strategy for OpenAI, Implications for Nvidia, and More
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Jun 18, 2024 |
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Apple Gets Intelligence, Unpacking the Partnership with OpenAI, What WWDC Can Tell Us About AI Adoption
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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(Preview) Microsoft’s Recall Mess, The Future of Streaming and Advertising, Follow-Up on Dark GPU Theory
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Jun 10, 2024 |
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(Preview) What Walmart Could Offer to Advertisers, Walmart's Momentum in E-Commerce, AI Skepticism and the Logic of a Bubble
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Jun 06, 2024 |
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Generative AI and Hardware Upgrades, Google History and the Dark GPU Theory, Amazon’s Logistics Long Play
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Jun 03, 2024 |
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(Preview) Big Questions About an AI Future, The State of LLMs 18 Months After ChatGPT, AI and Google/Apple/Microsoft
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May 30, 2024 |
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(Preview) Can Microsoft Make PCs Cool Again?, What Windows is Offering Developers, Scarlett Johansson and OpenAI
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May 23, 2024 |
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Netflix Gets the NFL for Christmas, The Streaming Wars Become the Bundle Wars, Leagues and Studios and Internet Realities
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May 20, 2024 |
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(Preview) Good and Bad from Google I/O, Google and the Digital Economy, Mail on LLMs and SpaceX
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May 17, 2024 |
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(Preview) OpenAI and the Latency Leap, Questions About an Apple/OpenAI Partnership, A Defense of AI Dating Agents
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May 14, 2024 |
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A Disastrous (and Resonant) New iPad Commercial, The Future of Google Search, Tom Brady and the Netflix Roast
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May 09, 2024 |
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(Preview) Apple in China and Japan, The iPad as a Mac Replacement, Apple and the Growth Premium
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May 07, 2024 |
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(Preview) The NBA Creates a Rights Bidding War, The Optimal NBA Schedule, RSNs and the Future of Customer Acquisition
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May 02, 2024 |
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(Preview) Virtual Reality and the Innovator's Solution, Meta Embraces the Android Approach, Uber as an Aggregator
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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(Preview) TikTok and the E-Commerce Giants, The FTC Moves to Ban Noncompete Agreements, 'Bluey' and Streaming Leverage
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Apr 25, 2024 |
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(Preview) What Taylor Swift Can Tell You About Netflix, What Meta Wants from Generative AI, Google and the Moonshot
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Apr 22, 2024 |
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10 Years of Stratechery: Best and Worst Takes, Creating on the Internet, AI as a Threat, and Memories of Day 1
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Apr 18, 2024 |
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(Preview) When AI Hits Digital Advertising, What the IT Era Can Teach Us About AI's Impact, Chip Questions and EV Mechanics
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Apr 15, 2024 |
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(Preview) Mailbag: AI Hardware, NBA Newsbreakers as Aggregators, Reels vs. Shorts, The Best Approach to Age Verification
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Apr 11, 2024 |
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Amazon and the “Just Walk Out” Parable, Mythbusting on Meta and TSMC, The XZ Backdoor and Its Implications
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Apr 08, 2024 |
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(Preview) Apple Flunks a Vision Pro Test, Microsoft Unbundles Teams from Office, AI and Energy Consumption
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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New Laws to Regulate Big Tech, The Distinction Between Platforms and Aggregators, Apple’s API and Accessories
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Mar 28, 2024 |
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(Preview) US v. Apple, Specific Allegations and Broad Implications, The Decisions that Made Apple a Target
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Mar 25, 2024 |
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Nvidia Searches for a Moat at AI Woodstock, The Blackwell B200, Microsoft’s Deal with Inflection AI
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Mar 21, 2024 |
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(Preview) Monetizing WhatsApp, Big Companies and Big Company Incentives, Why the New York Times Has a Podcast App
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Mar 18, 2024 |
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(Preview) Reddit Goes Public, Reddit and Evolution on the Internet, The Company that Should Buy TikTok
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Mar 14, 2024 |
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(Preview) Congress and TikTok, Listening to China to Understand the TikTok Concerns, Empty First Amendment Arguments
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Mar 11, 2024 |
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(Preview) Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Apple’s Bizarre Epic Misstep, What Microsoft Could Teach Google
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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The Road to Personalized LLM Answers, The AI Risk for Aggregators, Anthropic Releases a ‘Near-Human’ Claude 3
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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(Preview) Pichai's Gemini Letter, Nvidia and TSMC and Market Structure, The End of the Apple Car
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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(Preview) AI and the Big Five, Google and the Ongoing Gemini Catastrophe, The Stakes (or Lack Thereof) for Chatbot Output
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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(Preview) The History of Consoles, The Murky Present for Microsoft and Xbox, The Gaming Future for Sony and Meta
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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A Sports Super Bundle, The Next Challenge for Digital Advertising, Zuckerberg Reviews the Apple Vision Pro
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Feb 15, 2024 |
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(Preview) The Vision Pro and the Newton, The Case Against AVP as an Entertainment Device, The Most Valuable Tech Product of All
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Feb 08, 2024 |
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First Impressions of the Vision Pro: What It Is, What It Might Have Been, and a Note About Guest Mode
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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Mailbag: A Navy SEAL on the Vision Pro, Reading 10-Qs, Apple Follow Up, Netflix and Books, Unsolicited Parenting Advice
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Feb 01, 2024 |
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(Preview) Google’s Lumiere, The App Store and Lost Innovation, The Tension Between Property Rights and Public Interests
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Why Netflix Bet on Wrestling, The Future of Watching Sports, Recapping a Week at the World Economic Forum in Davos
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Jan 25, 2024 |
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(Preview) Apple's Latest App Store Gambit, iTunes and Macworld Context, Vision Pro Developers on Strike
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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(Preview) The Peacock Playoff Experiment, Revisiting the OpenAI Lawsuit, Big Picture Questions After the Boeing Mess
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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(Preview) Another Max Mess for Boeing, Boeing as a Case Study, ESPN and the Vision Pro
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The New York Times Sues OpenAI, Napster History vs. ChatGPT Future, Copyright Enforcement at the Aggregator Level
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Jan 08, 2024 |
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(Preview) Sharp Tech Holiday Hoopla: Streaming Mergers, Kitchen Tech, Worst Decisions, MBA Advice, Mac vs. PC and More
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Apple Gets a Patent War for Christmas, Europe's Ability to Hijack the Regulatory Process, Systemic Questions After Adobe-Figma
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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Mailbag: Google and Antitrust Festivus, Credit Card Dominance, AI for Movies and Writing, Shohei’s Contract
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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(Preview) Google's Killer Instinct, The Gemini Demo and AI Unknowns, Notes on College Football and Mark Cuban
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Dec 11, 2023 |
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Why the Internet Is Getting Worse and Why That Might Be Good for Society
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Dec 07, 2023 |
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(Preview) Elon at the DealBook Summit, The Strategic and Technical Failures at X, What Musk Might Be Getting Right
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Nov 30, 2023 |
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(Preview) Altman Returns to OpenAI, Governments and the AI Ecosystem, Q* Questions and Hitchhiking Robots
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Nov 27, 2023 |
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OpenAI and Microsoft, Human Nature and the Not-So-Effective Altruists, Imperfect Information and the Cult of Sam Altman
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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A Stratechery, Sharp Tech, and Sharp China Crossover on the Chip Ban, Taiwan, TikTok and More
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Nov 16, 2023 |
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Will We Speak to Chatbots or Write to Them?, Obstacles for Apple and OpenAI, Follow-Up on Tech and Real Estate
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Waiting for Immersive ChatGPT, ChatGPT and the Consumer Challenge, OpenAI’s Enterprise vs. Consumer Balancing Act
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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(Preview) The Future of Buying and Selling Houses, Two Price Fixing Lawsuits, The In-Season Tournament and Ronald Reagan
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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Biden’s Executive Order on AI, Innovation and the Steve Jobs Approach, Balancing AI Risks and Upside
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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(Preview) 100th Episode Mailbag: New MacBooks, CarPlay Closure, Dennard Scaling and the Chip Ban, Netflix and a Prestige Tier, Hardware as a Service
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Netflix Revives the Monoculture, The NBA and Its Rights Fee Future, The Bidding Calculus for Amazon and Disney
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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(Preview) Google’s Calculus with Mobile Search, What US v. Google Makes Clear About Apple, Two Types of Regulation
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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(Preview) The New York Times, Fake News, and Seven Years of Misdirected Energy
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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College Students and Chips, The Future of Computing (and the Limits of Physics), Formula 1 and Apple
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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The Hamas Attacks and Social Media, Competing Public Interests, Efforts to Stay Sane in a New Information Ecosystem
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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(Preview) The Sphere is Here, Collapsing Distinctions Between Physical and Digital Reality, Emails on Amazon and Antitrust
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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(Preview) Amazon and the FTC, Antitrust Laws and Big Tech, Consumer Welfare and American Welfare
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Voice and Video Demos with ChatGPT, How AI Could Redeem Meta’s Mixed Reality Bets, OpenAI Explores Hardware
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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New Features for ChatGPT and Spotify, Revisiting the CarPlay Discussion, TikTot on Advertising and Time Management
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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(Preview) Microsoft’s Snafu and Apple’s Shenanigans, Car Companies with SaaS Envy, The Logic Behind Delta's SkyMiles Move
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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An Endgame for YouTube TV, Big Disney Decisions (And Whether Bob Iger Should Make Them), The Era Beyond Peak TV
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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(Preview) Is the iPhone Still Interesting?, Unity’s New Model for Mobile Developers, YouTube Highlights and Taylor Swift’s New Movie
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Charter Wins and Does Disney a Favor, Charter and the Broadband Market, SMIC Gets the US Government’s Attention
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Disney vs. Charter and a New ESPN Reality, The Future of the Cable Business, Risks for the NBA and Other Sports
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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(Preview) Why Amazon and Shopify Went from Rivals to Partners, A More Precise Definition of Disruption, Streams and Nightmares for Warner/ESPN/Disney
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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Your Regularly Scheduled Nvidia Hysteria, Nvidia and the Metaverse, Questions on Sony and Adyen
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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China Turmoil and America’s Hidden Superpower, Bing vs. Google Six Months Later, Studios Disrupted Themselves to Invent Broadcast TV
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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(Preview) The Path to an ESPN Streaming Network, Disney Follow-Up and Fox Success, Two Perspectives on Google Photos
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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The Business of Taylor Swift, 'Eras' and Social Media, The Two Big Obstacles Preventing an Apple and Disney Merger
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Aug 14, 2023 |
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Meta’s EU Plans and Microsoft’s AI Pricing, The Barbell Effect Hits College Football, Photo Sharing in Parenthood
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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(Preview) The Week of LK-99 Intrigue, China and Trailing Edges Chips, Intel Goes to Washington
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, The US Department of Technology, Fusion and Starlink and Swiftie Spotify
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Jul 31, 2023 |
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(Preview) Why Netflix Will Keep Raising Prices, The Spotify Model in Hollywood, Twitter’s Inexplicable Rebrand and WeChat Dreams
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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(Preview) Meta Takes Llama Open Source, Why Llama Might Be More Important than OpenAI, ChatGPT Hits a Plateau
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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Tech and Two Strikes in Hollywood, Harsh Streaming Realities and a Big Residuals Mess, Iger’s Challenges at Disney
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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(Preview) Microsoft Wins Its Activision Case, What's Next for the Merger and the FTC, Follow-Up Questions on Threads and Twitter
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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The Threads Episode: How We Got Here, Meta Obstacles and Advantages, Everyone Hates Twitter (And Uses It Every Day)
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Jul 10, 2023 |
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(Preview) The Case for Supersonic Travel, End of June Mail on TSMC/Google/Reddit, Touching Grass in Madison
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Spotify’s Royal Mess, Ford and GM Partner with Tesla, HBO Weighs Selling Content to Netflix
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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(Preview) Reddit as a Business, APIs and Interest Rates and Angry Moderators, The Athletic Rethinks Its Coverage Approach
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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An All Things Apple Mailbag: AI and the Vision Pro, Gaming Ambivalence, Immersive Memories, VR Sports Rights
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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(Preview) Vision Pro at First Sight: How It Works, Why It Costs $3,500, and What It Might Mean for the Future of Computing
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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A Few Questions Before Apple Embraces Virtual Reality, Meta Tries to Crash Headset Week, Nvidia and the Omniverse
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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(Preview) An Impromptu Nvidia Symposium, A Brief History of Solaris and Sun Microsystems, The Future of AI Energy Consumption
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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(Preview) Windows and the AI Platform Shift, OpenAI Enters the App Store, Follow-Up on Sports Streaming and Cable Hindsight
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May 25, 2023 |
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ESPN as Cable’s Grim Reaper, How the Cable Bundle Crumbled, What Taylor Swift Can Teach Content Companies
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May 22, 2023 |
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(Preview) What Google Wants to Do with AI, The Tensions Inherent to AI Regulation, Can an Apple Headset Revive VR?
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May 17, 2023 |
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(Preview) Google’s Lesson for Hardware Dreamers, How Facebook and Apple Can Help Each Other, A Case for Touching Parchment
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May 11, 2023 |
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The Chip Ban Seven Months Later, China's Response, More on Intel and Tower Semiconductor
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May 08, 2023 |
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(Preview) Venture-Backed Businesses of the Past Decade, Why Streamers Want Sports Rights, The Suns Choose Reach over RSN Fees
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May 04, 2023 |
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What’s the Deal with Micropayments?, Costs and Benefits and Twitter Blue, More Thoughts on Microsoft-Activision
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May 01, 2023 |
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(Preview) The UK Blocks Microsoft-Activision, Globalized Companies and Local Regulations, Antitrust and Innovation
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Netflix as a Sleeping Ad-Supported Giant, 'Max' and the Other Streamers, Whether Nvidia Shall Inherit the Earth
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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(Preview) Fair Use Follow-Up, LLMs in Litigation, Positives and Negatives for Zoom, The Ultimate Apple Mystery
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Generative AI and Copyright, When AI Hits the Music Business, The Social Media that Comes After Twitter
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Clown Car History Lessons, Both Sides of the Twitter-Substack Fight, Parenthood Tech Strategies
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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(Preview) A Twitter Temperature Check, Reactions to that AI Open Letter, The Technical Logistics of a TikTok Ban
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Evaluating AI Risk and Entering an Era of Incredible Unknowns
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Appropriate Fear of Microsoft, A Workplace Efficiency Counterpoint, Artifact and Substack in the Modern Era
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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(Preview) A Big Week for AI, Closed Source vs. Open Source Development, Meta in the "Year of Efficiency"
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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The SVB Collapse, How the Government Responded, and the Era in Tech that Ended This Weekend
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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(Preview) Xbox History and VR’s Future, The TikTok Ban, Much to Consider Before a Pivot from Big Tech
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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What the NBA Can Learn from Formula 1, Why ESPN May Need to Pivot Too, The EPL Outlier and Apple's MLS Experiment
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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The Google Culture Question, A Law of Large Companies, Twitter's Algorithm Plans, Apple's Attempt at Glucose Monitoring
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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(Preview) What Spotify Learned About Podcasting, The RSN Train Wheezing Along, Does ESPN Need the NBA?
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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A Viking Funeral for Sydney the Chatbot, Meta’s Verified Experiment, Algorithms and Liability as Section 230 Takes Center Stage
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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(Preview) The Bing to Sydney Epiphany, Search as an AI Red Herring, Moving to a Cabin in an Undisclosed Location
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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(Preview) Google vs. Bing Begins, Bear Cases for AI, Apple's Lost Hardware Opportunity, The Implications of the Bally Sports Bankruptcy
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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Meta Comes Roaring Back, What the Market Missed Last Fall, The Compromises that Define the Modern Internet
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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(Preview) Cloudflare in 2023, Macro Conditions and Microsoft, Questions and Answers on the Tech Layoffs, Diving Deeper (literally) on MVNOs
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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Solving Online Groceries, Explaining Those Cheap New Cell Phone Plans, Autonomous Deliveries, Tech vs. Humans in Content Development
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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(Preview) How Google Conquered Ads, What the DOJ Wants to Do About It, Follow-Ups on Free Netflix, Checking in with Peloton
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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Encouraging Netflix Earnings, Continuing Questions, and How the Model Might Evolve
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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A Beginner's Guide to ARM, Amazon and Buy with Prime, Apple in the 90s, Who Wants to Own WWE?
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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What's Going on at Amazon? and AI Language Barriers
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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GPT in 2023: A Marriage with Microsoft, The Bull and Bear Case for Google, Compute Questions and More
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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Sharp Tech Holiday Hoopla: Gift Recs and YouTube TV, Microchips and Remote Work, Could ChatGPT Run a Basketball Team?
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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Another Weekend with Musk: More Chaos, Fewer Options, and an Object Lesson in the Importance of Principles
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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The Past/Present/Future of Tech Antitrust Arguments and More on TSMC in Arizona
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Making Advanced Microchips in Arizona and Imagining a Remote Work Future
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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When AI Moves Faster than Products, Microsoft's Evil Genius, Australian Rules for America's Ad Market, Questions on YouTube/Twitter/Spotify
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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A Beginner’s Guide to ChatGPT: How It Works, Why Tech Twitter is Euphoric, and What the Next Challenges Look Like
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Dec 05, 2022 |
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Apple's Exposure in a Musk War, Alexa: Find 10 Billion Dollars, YouTube’s Rev Share Model, The Next Great Tech Movie
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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The Cult of Iger and the Future at Disney and ESPN
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Nov 28, 2022 |
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Mailbag: A Premature Twitter Eulogy, Netflix in Theaters, Buy or Sell: Strategy Consultants, The Six People You Meet in a Group Chat
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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A Closer Look at Opendoor and Cloudflare and Responses to Your FTX Emails
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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Making Sense of the FTX Catastrophe and a Reality Check on Twitter Under Musk
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Nov 14, 2022 |
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A Beginner's Guide to Spotify and Emails on Antitrust and Algorithms
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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Mailbag: Down the 230 Rabbit Hole, A Third Door Moderation Approach, Twitter Follow-Up, Andrew Responds to the Nicest Angry Emails Ever
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Nov 07, 2022 |
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The First Week of New Twitter and Apple/Netflix/Taiwan Follow-Up
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Mailbag: How to Read an Earnings Report, TikTok's ATT Challenges, The Net Impact of Social Media, Lessons of a Young Tech Employee
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Oct 31, 2022 |
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Google/Facebook/Snap Earnings and Another Dimension of Automation
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Good News for Netflix Believers and the Latest TikTok Reporting
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Mailbag: Chip Ban Follow Up, What About Tik Tok?, Validating AI Work Product, Coaches and GMs as CEOs
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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Questions, Concerns and Unknowns after the China Chip Ban
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Oct 18, 2022 |
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Mailbag: Metaverse Week Concludes, A Hater's Take on Virtual Reality, The Apple Question, Touring the Stratechery Travel Kit
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Oct 14, 2022 |
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New Metaverse Dreams and Old Metaverse Questions
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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Mailbag: Two Musk Questions, Streaming Follow Up, Ad-Supported Businesses, Interrogating Andrew on Tech
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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Cable Temperature Check and a Bundle Experiment
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Oct 04, 2022 |
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Mailbag: Apple Privacy Counterpoint, Covid and Content Moderation, Phoenix Suns Sale, Justice for Gamers
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Nvidia Backlash and the China Conundrum
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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Mailbag: Adobe and Antitrust, Engagement Quality vs. Quantity, The Cult of Musk, Porcupine Lore
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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Introducing Sharp Tech
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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What AI Is Today and What It Might Be Tomorrow
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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Google-as-Government and Netflix vs. HBO Max
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Apple's Privacy Power Play and TikTok Concerns
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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Meta’s Murky Future and the Transformed New York Times
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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CHIPS History and Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit
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Aug 04, 2022 |