Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm 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 Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.

To email the show: email@sharptech.fm From Bing to Sydney — Stratechery New Bing Errors, User Preferences and Company Reputations, Section 230 and LLMs — Stratechery Update Eric Schmidt Is Building the Perfect AI War-Fighting Machine — Wired Get Sharp Tech Premium, Sharp China, Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Greatest of All Talk and the Dithering Podcast as part of Stratechery Plus for $12/month.