Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

By Andrew Sharp and Ben ThompsonTechnology

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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson episodes

March 30, 2023 (Preview) A Twitter Temperature Check, Reactions to that AI Open Letter, The Technical Logistics of a TikTok Ban
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Replit and Google, The Google Perspective, Twitter’s Bad Idea — Stratechery Update
Tweet by Elon Musk — @elonmusk
Twitter Has a New CEO; What About a New Business Model? — Stratechery
ChatGPT Gets a Computer — Stratechery
The Accidental Consumer Tech Company; ChatGPT, Meta, and Product-Market Fit; Aggregation and APIs — Stratechery Update
Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter — Future of Life Institute
Pausing AI Developments Isn't Enough. We Need to Shut it All Down — Time
Harry Potter by Balenciaga — YouTube
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10 min
March 27, 2023 Evaluating AI Risk and Entering an Era of Incredible Unknowns
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Apple and AI, Lobotomized Lovers, XR Companions — Stratechery Update
AI and the Big Five — Stratechery
Welcome to Stratechery — Stratechery
Who Funds the Future? — The New Yorker
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1 hr 3 min
March 20, 2023 Appropriate Fear of Microsoft, A Workplace Efficiency Counterpoint, Artifact and Substack in the Modern Era
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The Future of Work With AI — Microsoft YouTube Channel
AI and the Big Five — Stratechery
More on Google and AI; OpenAI, Integration, and Microsoft — Stratechery Update
An Interview with Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger About Artifact — Stratechery Interviews
Sovereign Writers and Substack — Stratechery
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1 hr 7 min
March 16, 2023 (Preview) A Big Week for AI, Closed Source vs. Open Source Development, Meta in the "Year of Efficiency"
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GPT-4, Google Adds AI to Productivity Apps, Local Language Models — Stratechery Update
Here are some incredible things people are already doing with GPT-4 — @LinusEkenstam
Lensa and Stable Diffusion, Stable Diffusion and Apple Silicon, Open Questions — Stratechery Update
Friction — Stratechery
Meta’s powerful AI language model has leaked online — what happens now? — The Verge
Update on Meta’s Year of Efficiency — Meta
Oscars Draw 18.7 Million Viewers — New York Times
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12 min
March 13, 2023 The SVB Collapse, How the Government Responded, and the Era in Tech that Ended This Weekend
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The End of Silicon Valley (Bank) — Stratechery
Joint Statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC — U.S. Dept. of Treasury
The Demise of Silicon Valley Bank — Net Interest
Startup Bank Had a Startup Bank Run — Bloomberg
The Uber Dilemma — Stratechery
The End of the Beginning — Stratechery
The End of the Beginning Follow-Up, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital, Venture versus Productive Capital — Stratechery Update
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1 hr 13 min
March 09, 2023 (Preview) Xbox History and VR’s Future, The TikTok Ban, Much to Consider Before a Pivot from Big Tech

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Spotify Stream On 2023 — YouTube
I don’t think Meta knows it’s a game company — The Verge
Status as a Service (StaaS) — Eugene Wei
Meta and the Quest Pro; Meta and VR as Console; Microsoft, Activision, and the EU — Stratechery Update
FCC relaxes rule limiting foreign ownership of media stations — Washington Post
White House backs Senate bill to boost US ability to ban TikTok — Reuters
Exclusive: Senator's TikTok whistleblower alleges data abuses — Axios
MLS commissioner Don Garber discusses expansion, Apple TV deal and more in exclusive interview — The Athletic
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9 min
March 06, 2023 What the NBA Can Learn from Formula 1, Why ESPN May Need to Pivot Too, The EPL Outlier and Apple's MLS Experiment
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What the NBA Can Learn from Formula 1 — Stratechery
ESPN wants to be the hub of all live sports streaming — even if it helps its competition — CNBC
The Intel Opportunity — Stratechery
r/formuladank — Reddit
MLS on Apple TV, The MLS Perspective, The Apple Perspective — Stratechery Update
The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports — Amazon
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1 hr 6 min
February 27, 2023 The Google Culture Question, A Law of Large Companies, Twitter's Algorithm Plans, Apple's Attempt at Glucose Monitoring
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The Google CEO Question, Steve Ballmer and Peacetime CEOs, About That Bard Mistake — Stratechery Update
Evaluating Sundar Pichai, EC Announces New Google Investigation, Amazon Blocks FLoC — Stratechery Update
The maze is in the mouse — Medium
Google Executives See Cracks in Their Company’s Success — New York Times
App founder quits Google, says company doesn’t serve users anymore — Ars Technica
Welcome to Stratechery — Stratechery
Elon Musk suggests Twitter could open source its algorithm ‘next week’ — TechCrunch
Back to the Future of Twitter — Stratechery
Apple Makes Major Progress on No-Prick Blood Glucose Tracking for Its Watch — Bloomberg
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1 hr 8 min
February 23, 2023 (Preview) What Spotify Learned About Podcasting, The RSN Train Wheezing Along, Does ESPN Need the NBA?
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Spotify’s Future Isn’t Exclusive Podcasts. It’s Advertising. — Bloomberg
Lessons From Spotify — Stratechery
Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery
Spotify Earnings, Spotify Exclusives, Spotify vs. Apple — Stratechery Update
Spotify Buys Megaphone, Spotify’s Podcast Strategy, Spotify’s Megaphone Strategy — Stratechery Update
How Spotify's podcast bet went wrong — Semafor
“Not, like, the nine greatest experts on the internet”: Justices seem leery of broad ruling on Section 230 — SCOTUSblog
Diamond Sports Misses Interest Payment, Bally’s Dire Situation, Negotiating Bankruptcy — Stratechery Update
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12 min
February 20, 2023 A Viking Funeral for Sydney the Chatbot, Meta’s Verified Experiment, Algorithms and Liability as Section 230 Takes Center Stage
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From Bing to Sydney — Stratechery
Microsoft Puts New Limits On Bing’s AI Chatbot After It Expressed Desire To Steal Nuclear Secrets — Forbes
Ben Thompson on Twitter — @benthompson
The Four Horseman — Stratechery
Google and Microsoft’s Events, Monetizable Panic, Paradigms and Hardware — Stratechery Update
Mark Zuckerberg — Facebook
Biden and Republican senators join forces in attack on Big Tech at Supreme Court — NBC News
New Bing Errors, User Preferences and Company Reputations, Section 230 and LLMs — Stratechery Update
Another Congressional Hearing, The Genesis of Section 230, The Battle over Section 230 — Stratechery Update
Her Official Trailer #1 (2013) — YouTube
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1 hr 2 min