Ben Thompson
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Apple: You (Still) Don’t Understand the Vision Pro
The first live sporting event was broadcast in the Vision Pro, and it’s a big disappointment. The experience could be amazing, but Apple actively ruins it.
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2026.02: AI Power, Now and In 100 Years
The best Stratechery content from the week of January 5, 2026, including whether AI will replace humans, the future of power generation, and what China thinks of what happened in Caracas.
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Nvidia at CES, Vera Rubin and AI-Native Storage Infrastructure, Alpamayo
Nvidia’s CES announcements didn’t have much for consumers, but affects them all the same.
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Nvidia and Groq, A Stinkily Brilliant Deal, Why This Deal Makes Sense
Nvidia is licensing Groq’s technology and hiring most of its employees; it’s the most potent application of tech’s don’t-call-it-an-acquisition deal model yet.
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AI and the Human Condition
AI might replace all of the jobs; that’s only a problem if you think that humans will care, but if they care, they will create new jobs.
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The 2025 Stratechery Year in Review
The most popular and most important posts on Stratechery in 2025.
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ChatGPT Image 1.5; Apple v. Epic, Continued; Holiday Schedule
ChatGPT Image 1.5 launched, and while it seems comparable to Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, the product around it shows OpenAI’s advantages. Then, Apple v. Epic rolls on.
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An Interview with Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe About Building a Car Company and Autonomy
An interview with Rivian founder and CEO RJ Scaringe about starting a car company, scaling, and building for an autonomous future.
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Disney and OpenAI, Totems in an AI World, Google Versus the World
Disney made a deal with OpenAI, which both speaks to the durability of Disney’s assets and to OpenAI’s competition with Google.