Understanding Users
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ChatGPT Image 1.5; Apple v. Epic, Continued; Holiday Schedule
ChatGPT Image 1.5 launched, and while it seems comparable to Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, the product around it shows OpenAI’s advantages. Then, Apple v. Epic rolls on.
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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.
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An Interview with Atlassian CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes About Atlassian and AI
An interview with Atlassian founder and CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes about building Atlassian and why he is optimistic about AI.
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AWS re:Invent, Agents for AWS, Nova Forge
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.
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An Interview with Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg About Turnarounds
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 OpenAI CEO Sam Altman About DevDay and the AI Buildout
An interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman about the infrastructure buildout, expanding ChatGPT, and the vision that unites it all.
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An Interview with Booking CEO Glenn Fogel About Travel and Aggregation
An interview with Booking CEO Glenn Fogel about being an aggregator, the power — or not — of network effects, and how AI can finally create the perfect travel agent.
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ChatGPT 5, Product Trade-Offs, Personality and Model Upgrades
GPT-5 seems fine; the more interesting questions are about the ChatGPT product and OpenAI’s tradeoffs.
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Tesla and Samsung, Customer Service and Intel, The U.S. Semi Supply Chain
Tesla is making future chips with Samsung, likely cementing the Korean company as the industry’s second supplier.