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An Interview with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien About Betting on Humans With Expertise
An interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI.
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Agents Over Bubbles
Agents are fundamentally changing the shape of demand for compute, both in terms of how they work and in terms of who will use them. They’re so compelling that I no longer believe we’re in a bubble.
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Anthropic’s Skyrocketing Revenue, A Contract Compromise?, Nvidia Earnings
Anthropic’s enterprise business is reaching escape velocity, which increases the importance of finding a compromise with the government. Then, agents dramatically increase demand for Nvidia chips, even if they threaten software.
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Xbox Replaces Head of Gaming, Xbox History, Whither Xbox
Xbox has a new head, who isn’t a gamer; I suspect Microsoft is doing what it should have done a decade ago: get out of the console business.
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Spotify Earnings, Individualized Networks, AI and Aggregation
Spotify’s nature as a content network means that AI is a sustaining technology, particularly because they have the right business model in place.
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Microsoft and Software Survival
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.
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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.
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An Interview with Ryan Jones About Flighty and Building Apps in 2025
An interview with Ryan Jones about Flighty, my favorite iOS app, and how the App Store has evolved over the last 15 years.