Ben Thompson
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President Trump, Take Two; Big Tech, Little Tech, Chips, and Hardware; Elon Musk’s Triumph
President Trump is once again president-elect; the best way to figure out the effect his administration will have on tech is to look at the policies of his first administration. Then, Elon goes all in and wins, and changes how we should think about the Twitter acquisition.
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Microsoft Earnings; Microsoft and OpenAI, Again; GitHub Copilot Adds Gemini and Claude
Microsoft’s latest earnings call is the clearest indication yet that the relationship between Microsoft and OpenAI is at best misaligned, and at worst on life support.
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An Interview with Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi About Designing Chips
An interview with Synopsys CEO Sassine Ghazi about the history of chip design, how AI makes new processes possible, and why the future is systems.
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An Interview with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff about AI Abundance
An interview with Salesforce Founder and CEO Marc Benioff about founding Salesforce, building an enterprise platform, and why that puts Salesforce in the best position to build AI agents.
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Netflix Earnings, Netflix Maintenance, Netflix’s Venture Model
Netflix’s margin expansion highlight both its business model differentiation and also the advantage it has in maintaining its lead, thanks to getting to scale first.
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Stripe Acquires Bridge, Stablecoins, Platform of Platforms
Stripe acquired Bridge, a company that builds infrastructure around stablecoins. Is this how crypto becomes a new payment rail?