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Windsurf Madness, Big Tech Wins as the Silicon Valley Ecosystem Erodes, Cloudflare Wants to Fix the Internet Economy
A week of news surrounding Windsurf and Google (and now Cognition), why the Silicon Valley ecosystem as we've known it appears to be coming to an end, and why the hiring and acquisiton conventions emerging now are a clear win for big tech. From there: A counterfactual on the founding of OpenAI, and various reactions to Cloudflare's plans to block AI crawlers by default and offer a pay-per-crawl model to LLMs and websites. At the end: An email about having a second child spawns a discussion about parenting.
To email the show: [email protected]
@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
@Stratechery Channel — YouTube
Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem — Stratechery Update
Cognition Buys Windsurf, Nvidia Can Sell to China, Grok 4 and Kimi — Stratechery Update
Cloudflare on the Edge — Stratechery
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence and Data, Data and Recruiting — Stratechery Update
Cloudflare’s Content Independence Day, Google’s Advantage, Monetizing AI — Stratechery Update
Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers — New York Times
Get all episodes of Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Greatest of All Talk, Asianometry and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $15/month or $150/year.
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By Andrew Sharp and Ben Thompson
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A week of news surrounding Windsurf and Google (and now Cognition), why the Silicon Valley ecosystem as we've known it appears to be coming to an end, and why the hiring and acquisiton conventions emerging now are a clear win for big tech. From there: A counterfactual on the founding of OpenAI, and various reactions to Cloudflare's plans to block AI crawlers by default and offer a pay-per-crawl model to LLMs and websites. At the end: An email about having a second child spawns a discussion about parenting.
To email the show: [email protected]
@SharpTechPodcast Channel — YouTube
@Stratechery Channel — YouTube
Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem — Stratechery Update
Cognition Buys Windsurf, Nvidia Can Sell to China, Grok 4 and Kimi — Stratechery Update
Cloudflare on the Edge — Stratechery
OpenAI, Artificial Intelligence and Data, Data and Recruiting — Stratechery Update
Cloudflare’s Content Independence Day, Google’s Advantage, Monetizing AI — Stratechery Update
Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers — New York Times
Get all episodes of Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Stratechery Updates and Interviews, Greatest of All Talk, Asianometry and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $15/month or $150/year.
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