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(Preview) Justice for Software Engineers, The Various Futures of Vibe Coding, Questions at xAI and Progress for Tesla
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 24, 2025
(Preview) Meta Continues Its AI Spending Spree, More Fun with OpenAI and Microsoft, ‘Apple in China’ and Related Matters
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 19, 2025
(Preview) The Futures for Cursor and Perplexity, Multi Modality Dreams and Apple Possibilities, Normies Contemplate an AI Future
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 17, 2025
Apple’s WWDC Retreat, Liquid Glass and One Question, Meta Puts $14.8 Billion Toward an AI Reset
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 12, 2025
(Preview) Nike’s Lessons on the Internet, Why Nike on Amazon Makes Sense, Meta and Anduril and Silicon Valley History
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 5, 2025
(Preview) Operation Spider's Web and Global Trade, More on io and Devices of the Future, The Allure of Sports on Streaming
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 2, 2025
(Preview) The End of the Ad-Supported Internet, Imagining What Comes Next, A Human-AI Agent PSA
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 29, 2025
OpenAI Enters the Hardware Business, The Challenges and Opportunities for Jony Ive, Takeaways from Google I/O 2025
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 22, 2025
(Preview) The U.S. Partners with the Middle East in AI, Why OpenAI Is Acquiring Windsurf, Google’s Side of the Platform Wars
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 19, 2025
(Preview) Airbnb and Its Varied Ambitions, The High Agency Golden Era, HBO Max and the End of an Error
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 15, 2025
Apple and the Power of Platforms, AI Comes for Google Search, ChatGPT Comes for Higher Education
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 8, 2025
(Preview) What’s Next for Apple and the App Store, The Risks of Continuing This Fight, More on Meta and Its AI Vision
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 5, 2025
(Preview) Meta and Its Many Plans in AI, Apple Gets Hammered in Court, The Costs of Waiting to Do the Right Thing
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 1, 2025
(Preview) All About AI Companions: Personalization Upsides, Dystopian Downsides, AI Therapy, Advertising Tension, and Lots More
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 28, 2025
Apple and the Ghosts of Companies Past, Privacy at the Expense of Performance, The Cook Question
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 24, 2025
(Preview) What Memory Can Do for ChatGPT, OpenAI's Future and Google's Circles Past, What College Football Can Teach Us About Tech
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 21, 2025
Three Eras of Facebook (and the Internet), The Problems with FTC v. Meta, The Realities of Perfect Competition
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 17, 2025
(Preview) Apple Gets a Temporary Reprieve, The End of Internet 2.0, An Incomplete Tech Blog Post Canon
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 14, 2025
American Disruption, Tech’s Manufacturing History in Asia, The Power of Demand in an Uncertain Future
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 10, 2025
(Preview) xAI Buys X, The Bitter Lesson for Everyone, Everywhere, Google’s Only Hope in AI
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 31, 2025
(Preview) The Delights of Images in GPT, The Future of Graphic Design, Signal and Multiple Dimensions of Security
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 27, 2025
(Preview) Why Google Wants Wiz for $32 Billion, Xbox One and Bygone Streaming Hardware Dreams, Immortality and Daylight Saving Time
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 24, 2025
(Preview) Deep Research and OpenAI's Business Model, A Counterpoint on White Collar Concerns, The Future of Cognition and Companionship
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 21, 2025
(Preview) Should Apple Buy Perplexity?, What Apple Could Learn from IBM, Vision Pro and Its Vaporware
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 17, 2025
Apple History and Apple Psychology, How Apple Should Capitalize On Its AI Potential, Why It Probably Won't
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 13, 2025
(Preview) The Murky Future for the NBA, A Variety of Notes on Apple and AI, In Defense of Tech That Removes Friction
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 10, 2025
(Preview) YouTube Shall Inherit the Earth, NBC’s Peacock Strategy Then and Now, The Grim Future for Cable Networks
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 6, 2025
(Preview) Amazon Introduces an AI-Powered Alexa, Is OpenAI the New BlackBerry?, The Social Costs of Removing Friction
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 3, 2025
AI Promises and Chip Precariousness, Policy Recommendations and a Changing World, Concerns and Counterpoints
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Feb 27, 2025
(Preview) Apple’s Answer to the UK, Encryption History and Privacy’s Future, Waiting for Drone Delivery in the U.S.
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Feb 24, 2025
(Preview) Xi Jinping and China's Tech Companies, The Long-Run Implications of the Chip Ban, and a Pessimistic Outlook for Taiwan
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Feb 19, 2025
(Preview) Experimenting With OpenAI’s Deep Research, Another ChatGPT Moment, Won’t Someone Think of the Entry-Level Employees?
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Feb 6, 2025
(Preview) Apple Abandons Its Smart Glasses, Google as the Yellow Pages, LLMs and the Overton Window
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Feb 3, 2025
The End of DeepSeek Week: Moneyball for AI, The Future of Compute Demand, Geopolitical Reality Checks, and More
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 30, 2025
(Preview) 72 Hours of DeepSeek Hysteria, What DeepSeek Means for Big Tech, Lessons on the Efficacy of Chip Controls
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 27, 2025
(Preview) The End of OpenAI and Microsoft, Risks and Rationale of the Stargate Project, DeepSeek-R1 and Bitter Lessons for the Future
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 23, 2025
(Preview) A Long Weekend for TikTok, Preparing for Trump and an Era of Upheaval, LeBron James as an iPhone
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 20, 2025
AI’s Uneven Arrival, TikTok’s Potential Departure, Xiaohongshu and the Delights of Cultural Exchange
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 16, 2025
(Preview) Meta’s Moderation Changes, Tech’s Evolving Political Calculus, The Importance and Difficulty of Maintaining Principles on the Internet
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 14, 2025
(Preview) What AI Could Mean for Aggregation Theory, o3 and Moore’s Law, More Questions Than Answers as Tech Enters 2025
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 6, 2025
Holiday Mailbag: The Next Intel, Google’s AI Revival, Modern Sportswriting, TSMC Mugs, Tutoring Takes, and Lots More
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 19, 2024
(Preview) Google’s Willow Chip, Drones as a Platform and Anduril Follow-Up, Building Inside and Outside Silicon Valley
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 16, 2024
(Preview) Anduril and the Lattice Partner Program, A New Direction for Defense Tech, OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Pro
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 12, 2024
(Preview) Mailbag: Building Toward Self-Driving Computers, Capitalism and Its Trade-Offs, The Reels-ification of 'X'
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 9, 2024
Gelsinger Out at Intel, 20 Years of Structural Challenges and Strategic Blindspots, The Board and What’s Next
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 5, 2024
(Preview) Mailbag: AppLovin on a Tear, The Business of OnlyFans, Questions on OpenAI and Elon Musk
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 2, 2024
(Preview) LLM Utilities, Google Disruption, Remote Work Angst, Family Tech Support, and a Thanksgiving Mailbag
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 26, 2024
America and the Trade Status Quo, Tariffs and What May Come Next, A Chance to Build in Tech and Beyond
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 22, 2024
(Preview) Monday Mailbag: Netflix and Its Mike Tyson Adventures; WBD Settles with the NBA; Lessons from Building Passport
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 18, 2024
(Preview) Today’s Internet and Tomorrow’s AI Innovation, Progress Reportedly Slowing for New LLMs, The Vision Pro as a Productivity Device
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 14, 2024