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(Preview) Mythos and Project Glasswing, The Year of Anthropic Continues Apace, Q&A on the NYT, Altman, De-globalization artwork

(Preview) Mythos and Project Glasswing, The Year of Anthropic Continues Apace, Q&A on the NYT, Altman, De-globalization

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

21:41Apr 10, 2026
(Preview) Five Questions on Apple at 50 Years Old, The Axios Hack and AI Security, Q&A on Starlink, AI IPOs, AirPods artwork

(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

21:03Apr 3, 2026
(Preview) A Spring Break Mailbag: RIP Sora, Ads and Surplus, F1 Going in Reverse, Elon Inc., Smartphone Parenting, and More artwork

(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

20:42Mar 27, 2026
(Preview) OpenAI’s Enterprise Pivot, The Rise of Agents and Bubble Counterpoints, Nvidia Changes Its Inference Story artwork

(Preview) OpenAI’s Enterprise Pivot, The Rise of Agents and Bubble Counterpoints, Nvidia Changes Its Inference Story

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

32:50Mar 19, 2026
(Preview) Nerding Out with the Neo, Claude and the Integration Question, The End of Coding Language History artwork

(Preview) Nerding Out with the Neo, Claude and the Integration Question, The End of Coding Language History

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

17:42Mar 13, 2026
(Preview) The Anthropic Mess Continues, Frontier AI and the Uncertain Future of Law, Q&A on Netflix, Dating Apps, F1 artwork

(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

29:25Mar 6, 2026
(Preview) The Roots of a Global Memory Shortage, Thick, Thin and Apple, Shopify is Fine, Actually artwork

(Preview) The Roots of a Global Memory Shortage, Thick, Thin and Apple, Shopify is Fine, Actually

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

15:21Feb 20, 2026
(Preview) Spotify Spreads Its Wings, CapEx Explosions and Distinctions, Q&A on Viral AI Tweets, Anthropic, Giannis artwork

(Preview) Spotify Spreads Its Wings, CapEx Explosions and Distinctions, Q&A on Viral AI Tweets, Anthropic, Giannis

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

30:56Feb 13, 2026
(Preview) SaaSmageddon and the Future, Microsoft After a Market Correction, Anthropic’s Super Bowl Lies artwork

(Preview) SaaSmageddon and the Future, Microsoft After a Market Correction, Anthropic’s Super Bowl Lies

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

27:38Feb 6, 2026
(Preview) Meta’s Plans to Spend $135 Billion, The ‘AI Bubble’ Bubble?, Why Hyperscalers Should NOT Invest in TSMC artwork

(Preview) Meta’s Plans to Spend $135 Billion, The ‘AI Bubble’ Bubble?, Why Hyperscalers Should NOT Invest in TSMC

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

28:04Jan 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 artwork

(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

35:29Jan 23, 2026
(Preview) Apple And Its Lack of Vision, The Transformation of United Airlines, Q&A on Grok, Meta, and Streaming Economics artwork

(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

22:15Jan 16, 2026
(Preview) The Economy in the 22nd Century, Amoral Tech and Silicon Valley Micro-Culture, What Nvidia Is Getting From Groq artwork

(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

21:09Jan 9, 2026
(Preview) An OpenAI Reminder, Netflix’s Expanding Appetite, Q&A on Remote Work, Taco Bell, and Data Centers in Space artwork

(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

28:42Dec 19, 2025
(Preview) Netflix Opportunities and Anxieties, Merger Hurdles to Come, Hollywood’s Endgame and What Comes Next artwork

(Preview) Netflix Opportunities and Anxieties, Merger Hurdles to Come, Hollywood’s Endgame and What Comes Next

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

20:08Dec 12, 2025
(Preview) OpenAI Declares a ‘Code Red,’ Alan Dye Leaves Apple for Meta, Questions on Tranium 3, Substack, and F1 artwork

(Preview) OpenAI Declares a ‘Code Red,’ Alan Dye Leaves Apple for Meta, Questions on Tranium 3, Substack, and F1

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

25:48Dec 5, 2025
(Preview) How Tech is Transforming the Suburbs, Q&A on Gemini, LLM Use Cases, Working With Your In-Laws, UAPs, and More artwork

(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

22:00Nov 26, 2025
(Preview) Google Starts Dancing, The Winners and Losers of Gemini Week, OpenAI Has an Advertising Problem artwork

(Preview) Google Starts Dancing, The Winners and Losers of Gemini Week, OpenAI Has an Advertising Problem

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

32:56Nov 21, 2025
(Preview) How Apple Changed the Cellular Economy, What SpaceX Wants to Do With Spectrum, Airlines and Carriers, Yann LeCun Departs Meta artwork

(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

23:04Nov 14, 2025
(Preview) OpenAI Wants Help from the Government, Apple Taps Google for AI, Q&A on Bubbles, Amazon Groceries, and YouTube TV artwork

(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

18:50Nov 7, 2025
(Preview) The Hidden Benefits of Bubble Economics, Microsoft and OpenAI Make a Deal, Notes on Taylor Sheridan, Sora, and Nexperia artwork

(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

32:05Oct 31, 2025
(Preview) Understanding the AWS Outage, Resiliency Realities and Innovation Urgency, F1 Heads to Apple TV artwork

(Preview) Understanding the AWS Outage, Resiliency Realities and Innovation Urgency, F1 Heads to Apple TV

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

29:05Oct 24, 2025
(Preview) How America Lost Rare Earths, Netflix Partners with Spotify and Bill Simmons, What Comes Next in the Robotaxi Wars artwork

(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

20:46Oct 17, 2025
(Preview) OpenAI Astride the World, Infrastructure Buildouts and Boundless Ambitions, More on Sora and Creation artwork

(Preview) OpenAI Astride the World, Infrastructure Buildouts and Boundless Ambitions, More on Sora and Creation

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

23:09Oct 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 artwork

(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

34:47Oct 3, 2025
Emergency Pod: Instant Reactions to MetaAI Vibes artwork

Emergency Pod: Instant Reactions to MetaAI Vibes

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

16:15Sep 26, 2025
(Preview) Video's Ongoing Victory Over Text, Google and YouTube's Abundance of Opportunity, Six Questions About an AI Bubble artwork

(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

32:39Sep 26, 2025
(Preview) Meta Doubles Down on Smart Glasses, Nvidia Partners with Intel, Notes on the Hidden YouTube Colossus artwork

(Preview) Meta Doubles Down on Smart Glasses, Nvidia Partners with Intel, Notes on the Hidden YouTube Colossus

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

38:46Sep 19, 2025
(Preview) New iPhones and an Absence of Awe, How Oracle Wins in the AI Era, Questions on MidJourney, Meta, and Armageddon artwork

(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

33:43Sep 12, 2025
(Preview) Google and Apple Avert Disaster, More on Kpop Demon Hunters and Hollywood, Mail on Microsoft, Adobe and ASML artwork

(Preview) Google and Apple Avert Disaster, More on Kpop Demon Hunters and Hollywood, Mail on Microsoft, Adobe and ASML

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

21:11Sep 5, 2025
Why Nvidia Wants to Sell Chips to China, Answering Intel Objections, KPop Demon Hunters Conquers the World artwork

Why Nvidia Wants to Sell Chips to China, Answering Intel Objections, KPop Demon Hunters Conquers the World

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

1:32:10Aug 29, 2025
Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta, Does OpenAI Need to Log Off?, Questions on Bubbles, Blackberry, and Bell Labs artwork

Facebook is Dead; Long Live Meta, Does OpenAI Need to Log Off?, Questions on Bubbles, Blackberry, and Bell Labs

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

1:35:37Aug 15, 2025
(Preview) AI and the Winner’s Curse, Google’s Genie 3 Breakthrough, Questions on Intel, Fertility Rates, and Banning Advertising artwork

(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

20:49Aug 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 artwork

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

1:33:12Jul 30, 2025
(Preview) The Post-AI Internet Realities, How Future Creators Can Succeed, Mail on Startups, F1 Rights, and Alternative Rock artwork

(Preview) The Post-AI Internet Realities, How Future Creators Can Succeed, Mail on Startups, F1 Rights, and Alternative Rock

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

29:09Jul 24, 2025
Windsurf Madness, Big Tech Wins as the Silicon Valley Ecosystem Erodes, Cloudflare Wants to Fix the Internet Economy artwork

Windsurf Madness, Big Tech Wins as the Silicon Valley Ecosystem Erodes, Cloudflare Wants to Fix the Internet Economy

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

1:32:58Jul 18, 2025
(Preview) Apple Searches for an AI Partner, A Second Fair Use Ruling and Reckoning with Reality, The F1 Movie and Related Matters artwork

(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

15:11Jul 10, 2025
A Big Ruling on LLM Training and Midsummer Mail on NBA Salaries in Tech, Starting from Scratch in 2025, and More artwork

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

1:16:50Jun 26, 2025
(Preview) Justice for Software Engineers, The Various Futures of Vibe Coding, Questions at xAI and Progress for Tesla artwork

(Preview) Justice for Software Engineers, The Various Futures of Vibe Coding, Questions at xAI and Progress for Tesla

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

9:36Jun 24, 2025
(Preview) Meta Continues Its AI Spending Spree, More Fun with OpenAI and Microsoft, ‘Apple in China’ and Related Matters artwork

(Preview) Meta Continues Its AI Spending Spree, More Fun with OpenAI and Microsoft, ‘Apple in China’ and Related Matters

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

14:22Jun 19, 2025
(Preview) The Futures for Cursor and Perplexity, Multi Modality Dreams and Apple Possibilities, Normies Contemplate an AI Future artwork

(Preview) The Futures for Cursor and Perplexity, Multi Modality Dreams and Apple Possibilities, Normies Contemplate an AI Future

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

11:39Jun 17, 2025
Apple’s WWDC Retreat, Liquid Glass and One Question, Meta Puts $14.8 Billion Toward an AI Reset artwork

Apple’s WWDC Retreat, Liquid Glass and One Question, Meta Puts $14.8 Billion Toward an AI Reset

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

59:21Jun 12, 2025
(Preview) Nike’s Lessons on the Internet, Why Nike on Amazon Makes Sense, Meta and Anduril and Silicon Valley History artwork

(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

8:24Jun 5, 2025
(Preview) Operation Spider's Web and Global Trade, More on io and Devices of the Future, The Allure of Sports on Streaming artwork

(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

10:22Jun 2, 2025
(Preview) The End of the Ad-Supported Internet, Imagining What Comes Next, A Human-AI Agent PSA artwork

(Preview) The End of the Ad-Supported Internet, Imagining What Comes Next, A Human-AI Agent PSA

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

12:29May 29, 2025
OpenAI Enters the Hardware Business, The Challenges and Opportunities for Jony Ive, Takeaways from Google I/O 2025 artwork

OpenAI Enters the Hardware Business, The Challenges and Opportunities for Jony Ive, Takeaways from Google I/O 2025

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

1:04:50May 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 artwork

(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

9:27May 19, 2025
(Preview) Airbnb and Its Varied Ambitions, The High Agency Golden Era, HBO Max and the End of an Error artwork

(Preview) Airbnb and Its Varied Ambitions, The High Agency Golden Era, HBO Max and the End of an Error

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

11:19May 15, 2025
Apple and the Power of Platforms, AI Comes for Google Search, ChatGPT Comes for Higher Education artwork

Apple and the Power of Platforms, AI Comes for Google Search, ChatGPT Comes for Higher Education

Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

1:19:04May 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 artwork

(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

13:41May 5, 2025