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Stratechery by Ben Thompson
On the business, strategy, and impact of technology.
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- 2,974 from 6 Dec 2009 to 29 Oct 2026
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- about daily (221 in the last year)
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October 2026
- An Interview with Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar About the AI Religious War
- Meta Earnings, Muse and the Frontier, Musebook
- Anthropic S-1, The Cost of Compute, Who Is Paying?
- The End of the Internet
- 2026.43: A New Era
- Sharp Tech on Video: Netflix Angst, the End of the Internet, and Meta’s VR Glasses
- An Interview with Craig Moffett About SpaceX and Bubbles
- Presented by Stripe
- Netflix Earnings, Business or Franchise, Disney’s Deal
- Muse Spark Open, Meta + Apple, Thin and Thick
- Do You Trust Apple?
- 2026.42: Home At Last
- A Conversation With Ari Emanuel About Entertainment and AI
- Apple HomeView, The New Apple TV, The App Story
- SpaceX Buys More Spectrum, Musk and Market Structure, Distributed Cellular
- 2026.41: It’s Not You, It’s Me
- An Interview with Katie Harbath About Disrupting Politics at Facebook
- Apple and LG, The House For Everyone Else, Agent Standards and Amazon
- Game Decompilation, Is This Legal?, A Well-Trodden Path
- Apple and a Hacker’s Future
- 2026.40: Dots and Question Marks
- An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart
September 2026
- OpenAI Dev Day, Dot and OpenAI’s Product Transition, Sign In With ChatGPT
- One More Note on Agents, Meta Connect, Meta Enterprise Platform
- Apps, Agents, and Aggregation
- 2026.39: Begun, the Aggregator Wars Have
- An Interview with Colossus EIC Jeremy Stern About Profiling Mark Zuckerberg
- More on Muse, Amazon, and Walmart; Muse and Expedia; Whither Google?
- Amazon Blocks Muse, Amazon’s Moat, Aggregator v Aggregator
- Frontier Overhangs
- 2026.38: Doomforce
- An Interview with Joanna Stern About the iPhone Duo and AI for Normal People
- Salesforce AI Force, Agents as UI, The Race to Headless
- OpenAI Ads, Amazon Ads in ChatGPT, Walmart to Accept Apple Pay
- Pacing the Frontier, AI’s Digital Limits, AI Commissars
- 2026.37: Duo Threats
- The iPhone Duo, The Intelligent Personal Hub, Apple Watch Audio Intelligence
- OpenAI Does Math, Reward-Hacking, Meta Launches Personal Agent
- Write Things Down
- 2026.36: Friction and Feedback
- An Interview with OpenAI President Greg Brockman About Astra and Alignment
- Fable 5.1, Enterprise Frontier Safeguards
- Nvidia Earnings, Dollars Per Gigawatt, Open and Hugging Face
August 2026
- Meta Settles, A Framework For Regulating Content, The Rest of Big Tech
- 2026.35: Internet Hype and Real World Change
- Apple Updates Mini and Studio, AI Computers, OpenAI Jalapeño
- Netflix to Sell Streaming Services?, Streamers as Aggregators, Revisiting Roku
- Autonomy and Innovation
- 2026.34: App Snore
- Apple Settles With E.U., U.S. App Store Fees, ATT Rules in Germany
- Nvidia Backs OpenAI Data Center, Anthropic News, Google Buys Spirit Airlines Data
- Stripe Acquiring OpenRouter, Aggregating AI?, Flipping the Business Model
- 2026.33: The CapEx Train Keeps Rolling
- Anthropic’s Watermarking, How It (Probably) Works, Worse Than It Seems
- Nvidia’s Risky Business
- Apple Earnings, More on Amazon’s Earnings
- 2026.32: Earnings and Learnings
- Google Earnings, The Frontier Case, Amazon Earnings
- Microsoft Earnings, Microsoft vs. Meta, The Efficiency Payoff
- Meta Earnings, Meta’s Timing Problems, The Financial Tail
July 2026
- 2026.30: The Copium Wars
- OpenAI Hacks Hugging Face, What Happened, Alignment and Paper Clips
- Netflix Earnings, Is Netflix Washed?, Additional Notes
- Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
- 2026.29: Mainframes and Main Characters
- IBM Misses, IBM’s Mainframe Moat, IBM’s Many AI Problems
- The OpenAI Super App, ChatGPT = Codex, Whither Chat
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Apple’s Real Problem
- 2026.28: XBOX On the Rocks
- Muse Image, Grok 4.5, Alex Karp on CNBC
- XBOX Cuts; Bundling and the Internet Solvent; Transaction, Coordination, and Sunk Costs
- A Script for Mark Zuckerberg
June 2026
- 2026.26: Summer Vibes
- An Interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field About Design and AI
- My Vibe Coding Adventure, The App and the Experience, Ten Takeaways
- Memory Chips and China, Microsoft and Chinese Models
- Apple Price Increases, Apple Intelligence and the E.U.
- 2026.25: The Stuff of Myth(os)
- An Interview with Michael Morton About E-Commerce in the Age of AI
- The State of Fable, The Jailbreak Problem, SpaceX Acquires Cursor
- Fox Buys Roku, The Problem With Fox’s Smart Strategy, Streaming That Works
- Anthropic’s Safety Superpower
- 2026.24: Hey Siri, Tell Me a Fable
- An Interview with Ben Bajarin About Apple, AI, and Compute
- Fable 5, Anthropic Alignment, AI Tiers
- The iPhone’s Last Stand
- Google Buys Compute From SpaceX, Broadcom’s Outlook, Apple’s AI Politics
- 2026.23: Power Shifts
- An Interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella About Finding Core Competencies
- The Nvidia AI PC, Project Solara, Microsoft AI
- The Google Capital Company
- YouTubers Win the Box Office, Goodbye Gatekeepers, The YouTube Bar
May 2026
- 2026.22: Luceing Their Mind
- An Interview with Eric Seufert About Models and Ads, and AI’s Upside for Humanity
- The SpaceX IPO and Data Centers in Space
- Nvidia Earnings, The AI Stack, Nvidia’s New Reporting
- 2026.21: The Data Center Veto
- An Interview with Parallel Founder Parag Agarwal About Valuing Content on the Agentic Web
- Google I/O, World Models, I/O Spaghetti
- Data Center Discontent, Understanding the Opposition, Fixing the Problem
- 2026.20: Shifting Alliances in a Changing World
- An Interview with Ben Thompson at the MoffettNathanson Media, Internet & Communications Conference
- The Deployment Company, Back to the 70s, Apple and Intel
- SpaceX and Anthropic, xAI’s Two Companies, Elon Musk and SpaceXAI’s Future
- The Inference Shift
- 2026.19: Earning & Spending
- An Interview with Joanna Stern About Living With AI
- Microsoft Earnings, Apple Earnings
- Amazon’s Durability
- Google Earnings, Meta Earnings
- 2026.18: Long-term, Peripheral & Myopic Visions
April 2026
- Amazon Earnings, Trainium and Commodity Markets, Additional Amazon Notes
- Intel Earnings, Intel’s Differentiation?, Whither Terafab
- An Interview with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and AWS CEO Matt Garman About Bedrock Managed Agents
- AI Hardware, Meta Display, Redefining VR and AR
- 2026.17: He Came, He Saw, He Cooked
- An Interview with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian About the Agentic Moment
- John Ternus and Apple’s Hardware-Defined Future, SpaceXAI and Cursor
- Tim Cook’s Impeccable Timing
- TSMC Earnings, New N3 Fabs, The Nvidia Ramp
- 2026.16: Servers, Satellites, and Stars
- An Interview with F1 Driver and Venture Capitalist Nico Rosberg About the Drive to Win
- Amazon Buys Globalstar, Delta to Add Leo, The Apple Angle
- OpenAI’s Memos, Frontier, Amazon and Anthropic
- Mythos, Muse, and the Opportunity Cost of Compute
- 2026.15: Myth and Mythos
- An Interview with New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien About Betting on Humans With Expertise
- Anthropic’s New Model, The Mythos Wolf, Glasswing and Alignment
- Anthropic’s New TPU Deal, Anthropic’s Computing Crunch, The Anthropic-Google Alliance
- OpenAI Buys TBPN, Tech and the Token Tsunami
- 2026.14: Apple, Acceleration, and AI
- An Interview with Asymco’s Horace Dediu About Apple at 50
- Axios Supply Chain Attack, Claude Code Code Leaked, AI and Security
March 2026
- Apple’s 50 Years of Integration
- Spring Break
- 2026.13: So Long to Sora
- An Interview with Arm CEO Rene Haas About Selling Chips
- Arm Launches Own CPU, Arm’s Motivation, Constraints and Systems
- 2026.12: Please Listen to My Podcast
- Jensen Huang and Andy Grove, Groq LPUs and Vera CPUs, Hotel California
- An Interview with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang About Accelerated Computing
- Agents Over Bubbles
- 2026.11: Winners, Losers, and the Unknown
- An Interview with Robert Fishman About the Current State of Hollywood
- Oracle Earnings, Oracle’s Cloud Growth, Oracle’s Software Defense
- Copilot Cowork, Anthropic’s Integration, Microsoft’s New Bundle
- MacBook Neo, The (Not-So) Thin MacBook, Apple and Memory
- 2026.10: Higher Powers and Lower Macs
- An Interview with Gregory Allen About Anthropic and the U.S. Government
- Anthropic’s Skyrocketing Revenue, A Contract Compromise?, Nvidia Earnings
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