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  • Spotify Earnings, Individualized Networks, AI and Aggregation

    Wednesday, February 11, 2026

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    Spotify’s nature as a content network means that AI is a sustaining technology, particularly because they have the right business model in place.


  • Amazon Earnings, CapEx Concerns, Commodity AI

    Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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    Amazon’s massive CapEx increase makes me much more nervous than Google’s, but it is understandable.


  • Google Earnings, Google Cloud Crushes, Search Advertising and LLMs

    Monday, February 9, 2026

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    Google announced a massive increase in CapEx that blew away expectations; the companies earnings results explain why the increase is justified.


  • An Interview with Benedict Evans About AI and Software

    Thursday, February 5, 2026

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    An interview with Benedict Evans about the crisis facing software, the future of the corporation, OpenAI, and the struggle to define the LLM paradigm.


  • Microsoft and Software Survival

    Tuesday, February 3, 2026

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    Microsoft got hammered on Wall Street for capacity allocation decisions that were the right ones: the software that wins will use AI to usurp other software.


  • Meta Earnings, Turning Dials, Zuckerberg’s Motivation

    Thursday, January 29, 2026

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    Meta is up, despite massive CapEx plans. The company is turning every dial to drive revenue, because Mark Zuckerberg thinks winning in AI is existential.


  • Intel Earnings, The Agentic Opportunity, Intel’s Mistaken Pessimism

    Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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    Intel’s earnings were disappointing because the company is missing a huge opportunity by virtue of selling off its capacity.


  • TSMC Risk

    Monday, January 26, 2026

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    If hyperscalers and chip companies don’t build up a TSMC competitor they are set to forego billions of dollars in revenue and stunt the AI revolution.


  • TSMC Earnings, The TSMC Brake Revisited, Why AI Needs Foundry Competition

    Wednesday, January 21, 2026

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    TSMC admitted that it has invested too little in the face of overwhelming demand for AI; that’s why the industry needs to facilitate competition for the foundry leader.


  • Ads in ChatGPT, Why OpenAI Needs Ads, The Long Road to Instagram

    Tuesday, January 20, 2026

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    OpenAI finally announced that ads are coming to ChatGPT. It’s an important step, but one with far more risk given the delay — and the delay means the ads aren’t yet the right ones.


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    Dithering | May 5
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  • An Interview with Joanna Stern About Living With AI

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  • An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
  • An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

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    Friday, May 1, 2026
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    Friday, April 24, 2026
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    Friday, April 17, 2026
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  • Anthropic and xAI

    Dithering | May 8
    Anthropic and xAI
  • A Championship Response from the Spurs, What’s Next for the Celtics?, Pre-Lottery Thoughts and Emotions

    Greatest Of All Talk | May 7
    A Championship Response from the Spurs, What’s Next for the Celtics?, Pre-Lottery Thoughts and Emotions
  • Google and Meta Earnings

    Dithering | May 5
    Google and Meta Earnings

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  • An Interview with Joanna Stern About Living With AI

    Thursday, May 7, 2026
  • An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents

    Tuesday, April 28, 2026
  • An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment

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