Platforms
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Stripe’s announcement of Treasury — banking-as-a-service — manifests the breadth of the company’s ambition.
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AWS:reInvent Continued, AI PaaS and SaaS, Nvidia and AI IaaS
More on AWS:reInvent, as the day’s second keynote focused primarily on AI. Plus, how Nvidia successfully pushed DGX Cloud onto every major cloud provider.
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The OpenAI Saga Continues, Microsoft’s New Chips, Microsoft’s AI Platform Hedge
More updates on the OpenAI saga, including the problematic board. Then, Microsoft unveils new chips, and is creating an AI platform that looks a lot like Microsoft’s other platforms.
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Microsoft’s
SurfaceAI Event, The New Microsoft, The Old MicrosoftMicrosoft’s Surface event was actually an AI event. It both showed how different Microsoft it, and how it hasn’t changed at all.
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An Interview with Anduril Co-Founder and CEO Brian Schimpf About Software and the Military
An interview with Anduril founder and CEO Brian Schimpf about why now is the time for a software-based defense contractor, despite software’s bad fit with the military procurement process.
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Unity’s Business Model Change, Unity’s Strategy, Unity Leadership Questions
Unity announced a sudden change to its business model. It makes some sense, but the implementation and communication were terrible, which is becoming a pattern.
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An Interview with Lisa Ellis about Payments
An interview with Lisa Ellis about payments, including Paypal, Adyen, and Stripe, and the coming battle between online and offline providers over omnichannel.
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Adyen Earnings, Adyen’s European Context, Adyen vs. Stripe
Adyen, the Stripe of Europe, had its roughest earnings as a public company; the biggest takeaway is how different their business actually is

