Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

By Andrew Sharp and Ben ThompsonTechnology

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson episodes

September 19, 2024 (Preview) OpenAI's Latest Model Is Not Like the Others, Copilot Pages and Salesforce Agents, When AI Moves from Copilots to Airplanes
Understanding the way LLMs have worked and why OpenAI's o1 model appears to be different, reactions to Microsoft's Copilot Pages and Marc Benioff's vision for agents, and why o1 and a generation of "reasoning models" could provide intriguing possibilities for AI investments across the enterprise space.
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Copilot Pages, Salesforce Agents — Stratechery Update
OpenAI’s New Model, How o1 Works, Scaling Inference — Stratechery Update
MKBHDs For Everything — Stratechery
Microsoft Customers Pause on Office AI Assistant Due to Budgets, Bugs — The Information
Steve Jobs Insult Response — YouTube
Matt Damon and George Clooney in Ocean's 11 — YouTube
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14 min
September 16, 2024 (Preview) Mailbag Monday: Politics as Monoculture; Startup Anxiety in Europe and China; WhatsApp Spam
Questions about politics as America's most dominant pop culture franchise, recommendations for the EU, and more.
To email the show: [email protected]
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11 min
September 12, 2024 The Strategic Logic of the iPhone 16, Services Upside and Downside, Steve Jobs and Modern Apple
What Apple's iPhone event signals about priorities for the company, a digression on the App Store and its attendant risks, and thoughts on what Steve Jobs could and couldn't change about Apple in 2024.
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Boomer Apple — Stratechery
Everything as a Service — Stratechery
Apple’s Middle Age — Stratechery
iPhone Pricing, DirecTV and Disney, Bars and Sports — Stratechery Update
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58 min
September 12, 2024 (Preview) The Strategic Logic of the iPhone 16, Services Upside and Downside, Steve Jobs and Modern Apple
What Apple's iPhone event signals about priorities for the company, a digression on the App Store and its attendant risks, and thoughts on what Steve Jobs could and couldn't change about Apple in 2024.
To email the show: [email protected]
@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
@Stratechery Channel — YouTube
Boomer Apple — Stratechery
Everything as a Service — Stratechery
Apple’s Middle Age — Stratechery
iPhone Pricing, DirecTV and Disney, Bars and Sports — Stratechery Update
Get all episodes of Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $15/month or $150/year.
14 min
September 09, 2024 (Preview) Mailbag Monday: Three Apple Questions, Intel and Founder Mode, 230 Follow-Up, China’s Chip Ambitions
Answering questions about Apple’s Woj, a cornucopia of iPhone options, founder mode, and more.
To email the show: [email protected]
@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
@Stratechery Channel — YouTube
Apple Moves Forward With Foldable iPhone — The Information
Unboxing the new #Pixel9 — TikTok: @google
Founder Mode — Paul Graham
ASML’s China Chip Business Faces New Curbs From Netherlands — Bloomberg
China Warns Japan of Retaliation for Possible New Chip Curbs — Bloomberg
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11 min
September 05, 2024 Understanding Intel’s Decline, Searching for Structural CHIPS Solutions, The Future of Section 230 Protections
Tracing the history that led to the decline of Intel, why Ben is conflicted about the potential solutions to the company's woes, and a Third Circuit verdict on Section 230 that could upend three decades of precedent across the tech ecosystem.
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Intel Honesty — Stratechery
Broadcom and Intel?, Nvidia Earnings, DOJ Investigating Nvidia — Stratechery Update
Intel Concerns, Fubo Blocks Venu — Stratechery Update
Intel Earnings, Intel’s Nadir — Stratechery Update
An Interview with “Father of the iPod” Tony Fadell — Stratechery Interview
An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger — Stratechery Interview
An Interview with Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger About Intel’s Progress Towards Process Leadership — Stratechery Interview
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1 hr 2 min
August 29, 2024 The Arrest of Pavel Durov, Encryption Explanations and Moderation Questions, Mark Zuckerberg’s Letter to Congress
The charges against Pavel Durov in France, the differences between encrypted messaging apps and Telegram, the philosophical questions underlying moderation scrutiny, and thoughts on Mark Zuckerberg's letter to the House Judiciary Committee this week.
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Post from Ethan Mollick — X: @emollick
DALL-E, the Metaverse, and Zero Marginal Content — Stratechery
Telegram CEO Durov faces preliminary charges in France of allowing crime on messaging app — Associated Press
Telegram CEO Charged Over Alleged Criminal Use of App — Bloomberg
The Multitudes of Social — Stratechery
Why Facebook Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Buy tbh — Stratechery
Google, Machine Learning, and CSAM; Takeaways and Tradeoffs; Apple’s CSAM Controversy — Stratechery Update
Mark Zuckerberg's Letter to Jim Jordan — Meta
Twitter, Responsibility, and Accountability — Stratechery
Russia, Google and Apple; The App Firewall; Laptop Assumptions — Stratechery Update
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1 hr 1 min
August 26, 2024 (Preview) Mailbag: Disney’s Taylor Swift Expansion, Canva and IPOs, Perplexity in Paris, SaaS for Cars, The Online Recipe Economy
Answering listener questions about Disney's massive investment in cruises, follow-ups on Canva and Sarbanes-Oxley, a new Chick-Fil-A streaming service, Perplexity’s advertising strategy, and lots more.
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Disney’s Taylor Swift Era — Stratechery
An Interview with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins About Disrupting Design — Stratechery Interview
Chick-Fil-A Hatches Plans For Streaming Service As Reality TV Comes Home To Roost — Deadline
Chick-fil-A Opens Its First-Ever Elevated Drive-Thru Restaurant — Yahoo! News
Parisian Love (2010) — Google
The world has changed a lot in the last decade...has your search engine? — Perplexity
Perplexity Print ads — X: @jackgwhitaker
This Is What Happens When Tech Bros Attempt to ‘Fix’ Online Recipes — Eater
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13 min
August 22, 2024 (Preview) Canva and the Disruption Ideal, What AI Could Mean for Graphic Design, Fubo and Venu and FUBAR Post-Cable Plans
A conversation about Canva and lessons from its growth story, the future of graphic design and visual learning, and a word about tech IPOs in the modern era. At the end: The injunction blocking the launch of a new streaming service, follow-ups on surgeon groupchats, and an emailer makes Sharp Tech history.
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An Interview with Canva CEO Melanie Perkins About Disrupting Design — Stratechery Interview
Fox-Disney Sports Service Blocked by Judge in Win for Fubo — Bloomberg
Vision Pro at Work, The Sports Bundle — Stratechery Update
The Rise and Fall of ESPN’s Leverage — Stratechery
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15 min
August 19, 2024 (Preview) Mailbag: Smartphone Subsidies, Apple Intelligence and Search, Surgeon Groupchats, The Metaverse and AI
Answering listener questions on the BNPL model for smartphones, whether Apple employees hate the App Store policies, Apple Intelligence and search, and lots more.
To email the show: [email protected]
@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
@Stratechery Channel — YouTube
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11 min