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America Votes Against Data Centers, Implications for Big Tech and Beyond, Were Google Bears Right All Along?
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 6, 2026
Anthropic Opens the Kimono, Bubble Questions and Frontier Costs, Q&A on Meta, Starlink, Brewers
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Oct 30, 2026
Netflix Angst, The End of the Internet, Q&A on Meta’s VR Glasses, Anthropic Alignment, You Can See Everything
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Oct 23, 2026
(Preview) Doom Debates Go Mainstream, AI Religion and the Economic Future, Several Vectors of the China Question
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Sep 18, 2026
(Preview) Meta and Its Messaging Problem, The XBOX Reset, Q&A on Token Costs, American Soccer, Starlink in Nature
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jul 10, 2026
(Preview) A Summer Break Mailbag: Memory Mania, Vibe Coding, Mafia PR, Caffeine Intake, Garages, and How to Fix Soccer
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 26, 2026
(Preview) The Anthropic Saga Continues, Fox and the Future of Streaming, Q&A on ChatGPT, Agentic Shopping, Autonomous Driving
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 19, 2026
(Preview) Five Questions on WWDC 2026, Fable 5 And Its Guardrails, What Anthropic Has in Common With Apple
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 12, 2026
(Preview) SpaceX Hype and the Elon Bargain, Nvidia and the Neoclouds, Q&A on Dropbox, Google, Ferrari Luce Backlash
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 29, 2026
(Preview) Inference in the Agentic Future, xAI Is Two Companies in One, Q&A on Elon’s Lawsuit, Intel, Apple
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 15, 2026
(Preview) AWS History and Trainium’s AI Future, OpenAI Makes a Deal With Microsoft, Meta and the Future of Wearable Devices
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · May 1, 2026
(Preview) Six Questions on Frontier AI Labs, Messaging AI to a Skeptical Public, Amazon (and Apple?) Ramps Up Competition with Elon
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 17, 2026
(Preview) Mythos and Project Glasswing, The Year of Anthropic Continues Apace, Q&A on the NYT, Altman, De-globalization
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 10, 2026
(Preview) Five Questions on Apple at 50 Years Old, The Axios Hack and AI Security, Q&A on Starlink, AI IPOs, AirPods
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Apr 3, 2026
(Preview) A Spring Break Mailbag: RIP Sora, Ads and Surplus, F1 Going in Reverse, Elon Inc., Smartphone Parenting, and More
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 27, 2026
(Preview) OpenAI’s Enterprise Pivot, The Rise of Agents and Bubble Counterpoints, Nvidia Changes Its Inference Story
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 19, 2026
(Preview) Nerding Out with the Neo, Claude and the Integration Question, The End of Coding Language History
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 13, 2026
(Preview) The Anthropic Mess Continues, Frontier AI and the Uncertain Future of Law, Q&A on Netflix, Dating Apps, F1
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Mar 6, 2026
(Preview) The Roots of a Global Memory Shortage, Thick, Thin and Apple, Shopify is Fine, Actually
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Feb 20, 2026
(Preview) Spotify Spreads Its Wings, CapEx Explosions and Distinctions, Q&A on Viral AI Tweets, Anthropic, Giannis
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Feb 13, 2026
(Preview) SaaSmageddon and the Future, Microsoft After a Market Correction, Anthropic’s Super Bowl Lies
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Feb 6, 2026
(Preview) Meta’s Plans to Spend $135 Billion, The ‘AI Bubble’ Bubble?, Why Hyperscalers Should NOT Invest in TSMC
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 30, 2026
(Preview) A Call to Action for TSMC’s AI Customers, Wall Street’s Netflix Anxiety, Q&A on Tech’s Cignetti, OpenAI, Starbucks
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 23, 2026
(Preview) Apple And Its Lack of Vision, The Transformation of United Airlines, Q&A on Grok, Meta, and Streaming Economics
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 16, 2026
(Preview) The Economy in the 22nd Century, Amoral Tech and Silicon Valley Micro-Culture, What Nvidia Is Getting From Groq
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jan 9, 2026
(Preview) An OpenAI Reminder, Netflix’s Expanding Appetite, Q&A on Remote Work, Taco Bell, and Data Centers in Space
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 19, 2025
(Preview) Netflix Opportunities and Anxieties, Merger Hurdles to Come, Hollywood’s Endgame and What Comes Next
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 12, 2025
(Preview) OpenAI Declares a ‘Code Red,’ Alan Dye Leaves Apple for Meta, Questions on Tranium 3, Substack, and F1
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Dec 5, 2025
(Preview) How Tech is Transforming the Suburbs, Q&A on Gemini, LLM Use Cases, Working With Your In-Laws, UAPs, and More
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 26, 2025
(Preview) Google Starts Dancing, The Winners and Losers of Gemini Week, OpenAI Has an Advertising Problem
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 21, 2025
(Preview) How Apple Changed the Cellular Economy, What SpaceX Wants to Do With Spectrum, Airlines and Carriers, Yann LeCun Departs Meta
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 14, 2025
(Preview) OpenAI Wants Help from the Government, Apple Taps Google for AI, Q&A on Bubbles, Amazon Groceries, and YouTube TV
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Nov 7, 2025
(Preview) The Hidden Benefits of Bubble Economics, Microsoft and OpenAI Make a Deal, Notes on Taylor Sheridan, Sora, and Nexperia
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Oct 31, 2025
(Preview) Understanding the AWS Outage, Resiliency Realities and Innovation Urgency, F1 Heads to Apple TV
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Oct 24, 2025
(Preview) How America Lost Rare Earths, Netflix Partners with Spotify and Bill Simmons, What Comes Next in the Robotaxi Wars
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Oct 17, 2025
(Preview) OpenAI Astride the World, Infrastructure Buildouts and Boundless Ambitions, More on Sora and Creation
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Oct 10, 2025
(Preview) Sora 2 and an AI Video Boom, Meta’s Vibes One Week Later, Questions on TikTok, Solar Power, and the iPhone Air
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Oct 3, 2025
Emergency Pod: Instant Reactions to MetaAI Vibes
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Sep 26, 2025
(Preview) Video's Ongoing Victory Over Text, Google and YouTube's Abundance of Opportunity, Six Questions About an AI Bubble
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Sep 26, 2025
(Preview) Meta Doubles Down on Smart Glasses, Nvidia Partners with Intel, Notes on the Hidden YouTube Colossus
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Sep 19, 2025
(Preview) New iPhones and an Absence of Awe, How Oracle Wins in the AI Era, Questions on MidJourney, Meta, and Armageddon
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Sep 12, 2025
(Preview) Google and Apple Avert Disaster, More on Kpop Demon Hunters and Hollywood, Mail on Microsoft, Adobe and ASML
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Sep 5, 2025
Why Nvidia Wants to Sell Chips to China, Answering Intel Objections, KPop Demon Hunters Conquers the World
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Aug 29, 2025
Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta, Does OpenAI Need to Log Off?, Questions on Bubbles, Blackberry, and Bell Labs
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Aug 15, 2025
(Preview) AI and the Winner’s Curse, Google’s Genie 3 Breakthrough, Questions on Intel, Fertility Rates, and Banning Advertising
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Aug 8, 2025
Intel and the US Semi Future, Will Any Big Tech Incumbents Lose in an AI World?, Questions on Tea, Grok, and The Ringer
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jul 30, 2025
(Preview) The Post-AI Internet Realities, How Future Creators Can Succeed, Mail on Startups, F1 Rights, and Alternative Rock
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jul 24, 2025
Windsurf Madness, Big Tech Wins as the Silicon Valley Ecosystem Erodes, Cloudflare Wants to Fix the Internet Economy
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jul 18, 2025
(Preview) Apple Searches for an AI Partner, A Second Fair Use Ruling and Reckoning with Reality, The F1 Movie and Related Matters
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jul 10, 2025
A Big Ruling on LLM Training and Midsummer Mail on NBA Salaries in Tech, Starting from Scratch in 2025, and More
Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson · Jun 26, 2025