Product Management
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Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes
Amazon’s earnings suggest that the shift away from training towards inference and agents means their bet on Trainium is paying off. Plus, additional notes on ads, agents, and sports rights.
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Intel Earnings, Intel’s Differentiation?, Whither Terafab
Intel’s earnings were very impressive, but the chief driver was a structural shift in demand for CPUs for AI. Plus, what is going on with Terafab?
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An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman about their new partnership, plus my thoughts on OpenAI and Microsoft’s new deal.
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John Ternus and Apple’s Hardware-Defined Future, SpaceXAI and Cursor
The elevation of John Ternus suggests that Apple’s future is about hardware differentiation; then, the SpaceX-Cursor deal makes a lot of sense.
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Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing
Tim Cook had an extraordinary run — and impeccable timing, both in terms of when he became CEO, and when he is stepping down.
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OpenAI’s Memos, Frontier, Amazon and Anthropic
Breaking down OpenAI’s internal memo about taking on Anthropic in the enterprise.
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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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Apple’s 50 Years of Integration
Apple has survived 50 years by being the only company integrating hardware and software; if the company loses because of AI it will be because the point of integration changes.