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  • (Preview) Five Questions on WWDC 2026, Fable 5 And Its Guardrails, What Anthropic Has in Common With Apple

    Sharp Tech | Jun 12
    (Preview) Five Questions on WWDC 2026, Fable 5 And Its Guardrails, What Anthropic Has in Common With Apple
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  • AWS re:Invent, Agents for AWS, Nova Forge

    Wednesday, December 3, 2025

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    AWS re:Invent sought to present AI solutions in the spirit of AWS’ original impact on startups; the real targets may be the startups from that era, not the current one.


  • OpenAI Code Red, AWS and Google Cloud Networking

    Tuesday, December 2, 2025

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    OpenAI is declaring code red and doubling down on ChatGPT, highlighting the company’s bear case. Then, AWS makes it easier to run AI workloads on other clouds.


  • Google, Nvidia, and OpenAI

    Monday, December 1, 2025

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    OpenAI and Nvidia are both under threat from Google; I like OpenAI’s chances best, but they need an advertising model to beat Google as an Aggregator.


  • Opus 4.5 and Anthropic’s Aligned Enterprise Strategy, ChatGPT Shopping Research, Meta to Use TPUs?

    Tuesday, November 25, 2025

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    Anthropic’s Opus 4.5 appears to be a big breakthrough that slots into Anthropic’s enterprise strategy, while ChatGPT gets new consumer features, and Meta might use Google’s TPUs


  • Nvidia Earnings; Power, Scarcity, and Marginal Costs; OpenAI Hand-wringing

    Monday, November 24, 2025

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    Nvidia earnings are the wrong place to look for evidence of an AI bubble; the company’s margins should be safe if power is the limiting factor.


  • An Interview with Eric Seufert About Advertising and AI

    Thursday, November 20, 2025

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    An interview with Eric Seufert about the right advertising model for AI, the right AI for Meta, and why personalized advertising is good for society.


  • Gemini 3, Winners and Losers, Integration and the Enterprise

    Wednesday, November 19, 2025

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    Gemini 3 is out, and looks to be state of the art. What does that mean for everyone else in the AI space, and what markets might Google win?


  • Robotaxis and Suburbia

    Tuesday, November 18, 2025

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    Robotaxis are poised to further close the delta between suburbs and the city; the city (and Uber) might never recover.


  • ChatGPT Group Chats, Meta and the Encryption Trade-off, Network Effects and Ad Models

    Monday, November 17, 2025

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    ChatGPT is getting group chats, a long-standing Stratechery feature request. It’s also a clear attach against Meta, who can’t respond because of encryption, while Google looms.


  • An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds

    Thursday, November 13, 2025

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    An interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg about a career focused on turnarounds, from EA’s KOTR to Zynga and now to Unity.


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  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute

    Thursday, June 11, 2026
  • Fable 5, Anthropic Alignment, AI Tiers

    Wednesday, June 10, 2026
  • Google Buys Compute From SpaceX, Broadcom’s Outlook, Apple’s AI Politics

    Monday, June 8, 2026
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Podcasts

  • (Preview) Five Questions on WWDC 2026, Fable 5 And Its Guardrails, What Anthropic Has in Common With Apple

    Sharp Tech | Jun 12
    (Preview) Five Questions on WWDC 2026, Fable 5 And Its Guardrails, What Anthropic Has in Common With Apple
  • WWDC Follow-Up

    Dithering | Jun 11
    WWDC Follow-Up
  • (Preview) Xi Goes to North Korea; Inspecting Xinjiang; A $295 Billion AI Buildout; The Pentagon Alleges PLA Links for Alibaba and Others

    Sharp China | Jun 11
    (Preview) Xi Goes to North Korea; Inspecting Xinjiang; A $295 Billion AI Buildout; The Pentagon Alleges PLA Links for Alibaba and Others

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Interviews

  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute

    Thursday, June 11, 2026
  • An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies

    Thursday, June 4, 2026
  • An Interview with Eric Seufert About Models and Ads, and AI’s Upside for Humanity

    Thursday, May 28, 2026
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  • Europe’s Final Warning
    Friday, June 12, 2026
  • Steph Curry Turns to China
    Friday, June 5, 2026
  • How Spencer Pratt Happens
    Friday, May 29, 2026
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  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute

    Thursday, June 11, 2026
  • Fable 5, Anthropic Alignment, AI Tiers

    Wednesday, June 10, 2026
  • Google Buys Compute From SpaceX, Broadcom’s Outlook, Apple’s AI Politics

    Monday, June 8, 2026
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Stratechery Plus

Podcasts

  • (Preview) Five Questions on WWDC 2026, Fable 5 And Its Guardrails, What Anthropic Has in Common With Apple

    Sharptech | Jun 12
    (Preview) Five Questions on WWDC 2026, Fable 5 And Its Guardrails, What Anthropic Has in Common With Apple
  • WWDC Follow-Up

    Dithering | Jun 11
    WWDC Follow-Up
  • (Preview) Xi Goes to North Korea; Inspecting Xinjiang; A $295 Billion AI Buildout; The Pentagon Alleges PLA Links for Alibaba and Others

    Sharpchina | Jun 11
    (Preview) Xi Goes to North Korea; Inspecting Xinjiang; A $295 Billion AI Buildout; The Pentagon Alleges PLA Links for Alibaba and Others

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Interviews

  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute

    Thursday, June 11, 2026
  • An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies

    Thursday, June 4, 2026
  • An Interview with Eric Seufert About Models and Ads, and AI’s Upside for Humanity

    Thursday, May 28, 2026
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