Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

By Andrew Sharp and Ben ThompsonTechnology

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson episodes

December 22, 2023 (Preview) Sharp Tech Holiday Hoopla: Streaming Mergers, Kitchen Tech, Worst Decisions, MBA Advice, Mac vs. PC and More
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Celebrating the end of the year with a few reactions to Wednesday’s Paramount-Warner Brothers rumors and a wide variety of mailbag questions. Happy holidays from the entire Sharp Tech team!
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Scoop: Warner Bros. Discovery in talks to merge with Paramount Global — Axios
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17 min
December 20, 2023 Apple Gets a Patent War for Christmas, Europe's Ability to Hijack the Regulatory Process, Systemic Questions After Adobe-Figma
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The patent dispute that has Apple ready to take Apple Watches off the market, the expanding powers of the EU regulatory regime, why the Adobe-Figma acquisition raised legitimate competition concerns, and the uncertainty for the startup ecosystem as mergers become more difficult across tech.
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Apple Is So Big, It’s Almost Eclipsing France’s Stock Market — Bloomberg
Apple Watch Import Ban, Apple v Masimo, Apple’s Response — Stratechery Update
Apple to halt Apple Watch Series 9 and Apple Watch Ultra 2 sales in the US this week — 9to5Mac
When Apple Comes Calling, ‘It’s the Kiss of Death’ — Wall Street Journal
Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma — The Verge
Adobe to Buy Collaboration-Software Company Figma for About $20 Billion — Wall Street Journal
Adobe Acquires Figma, Figma’s Disruption, The Figma OS — Stratechery Update
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1 hr 14 min
December 13, 2023 Mailbag: Google and Antitrust Festivus, Credit Card Dominance, AI for Movies and Writing, Shohei’s Contract
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What Clayton Christensen Got Wrong — Stratechery
Google Loses Antitrust Case to Epic; The Differences Between Apple and Google, Revisited; The Tying Question — Stratechery Update
Malakai Bayoh sings a stunning ‘O Holy Night’ duet with Aled Jones — Classic FM YouTube Channel
King's College, Cambridge : 'O Holy Night' : 2015 — Archive of Recorded Church Music YouTube Channel
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1 hr 9 min
December 11, 2023 (Preview) Google's Killer Instinct, The Gemini Demo and AI Unknowns, Notes on College Football and Mark Cuban
Bull and bear cases for Google's long term prospects, why navigating the AI era may require leadership and culture changes, and thoughts on college football's success and Mark Cuban's sale of the Dallas Mavericks. At the end: Select wisdom from Charlie Munger.
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A collection of Charlie Munger's best quotes — X: @MorningBrew
The College Football Playoff, Events Over Inventory, NASCAR’s New Deal — Stratechery Update
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10 min
December 07, 2023 Why the Internet Is Getting Worse and Why That Might Be Good for Society
Ben’s article on “Regretful Accelerationism,” the differences between today’s Internet and that of 10 years ago, AI articles at Sports Illustrated as digital media continues its decline, and why the increasingly bleak outlook for social media might be healthy for society itself.
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Regretful Accelerationism — Stratechery
Sports Illustrated Published Articles by Fake, AI-Generated Writers — Futurism
Why Web Pages Suck — Stratechery
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1 hr 8 min
November 30, 2023 (Preview) Elon at the DealBook Summit, The Strategic and Technical Failures at X, What Musk Might Be Getting Right
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NYT DealBook Summit: Elon Musk — X: @andrewrsorkin
Two Apple Items, Twitter Cash Flow, Twitter Versus Advertisers — Stratechery Update
Substack Has a Nazi Problem — The Atlantic
Spotify and Joe Rogan, Culture and Principles, Music Versus Podcasts and the Long Run — Stratechery Update
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17 min
November 27, 2023 (Preview) Altman Returns to OpenAI, Governments and the AI Ecosystem, Q* Questions and Hitchhiking Robots
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Altman Returns as OpenAI CEO in Chaotic Win for Microsoft — Bloomberg
OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain — Stratechery
The OpenAI Saga Continues, Microsoft’s New Chips, Microsoft’s AI Platform Hedge — Stratechery Update
HitchBOT, the hitchhiking robot, gets beheaded in Philadelphia — CNN
The Crown season 6 review – so bad it’s basically an out-of-body experience — The Guardian
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13 min
November 21, 2023 OpenAI and Microsoft, Human Nature and the Not-So-Effective Altruists, Imperfect Information and the Cult of Sam Altman
Reactions to one of the most extraordinary weekends in the history of the tech industry, the blindspots that were exposed among both the OpenAI board and Microsoft, the non-profit model for development and OpenAI's recruiting prowess, and a groundswell of support for Sam Altman as a variety of questions remain.
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OpenAI’s Misalignment and Microsoft’s Gain — Stratechery
The Accidental Consumer Tech Company; ChatGPT, Meta, and Product-Market Fit; Aggregation and APIs — Stratechery Update
The OpenAI Saga Continues, Microsoft’s New Chips, Microsoft’s AI Platform Hedge — Stratechery Update
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence and Data, Data and Recruiting — Stratechery Update
Altman Sought Billions For Chip Venture Before OpenAI Ouster — Bloomberg
Microsoft Wants to Work With OpenAI’s Sam Altman, No Matter Where he is, CEO Nadella Says — Bloomberg
Inside the Chaos at OpenAI — The Atlantic
The Doomed Mission Behind Sam Altman’s Shock Ouster From OpenAI — Bloomberg
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1 hr 16 min
November 16, 2023 A Stratechery, Sharp Tech, and Sharp China Crossover on the Chip Ban, Taiwan, TikTok and More
After one year of Sharp Tech and Sharp China, a summit with Ben Thompson, Bill Bishop and Andrew Sharp to discuss podcasting, the chip ban, the US-China relationship and beyond.
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1 hr 5 min
November 15, 2023 Will We Speak to Chatbots or Write to Them?, Obstacles for Apple and OpenAI, Follow-Up on Tech and Real Estate
An emailer makes the argument for text over voice as the AI interface of the future, the introduction of Humane's AI pin, and questions for Apple and OpenAI as the AI ecosystem evolves. At the end: A few clarifications from listeners and more thoughts on tech and the real estate market.
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The OpenAI Keynote — Stratechery
Realtors Lose in Court, Zillow and Real Estate Aggregation, From Franchises to Businesses — Stratechery Update
AI, Hardware, and Virtual Reality — Stratechery
This is the Humane Ai Pin — @Humane
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1 hr 10 min