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**Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson**

A podcast about understanding how tech works and the way it is changing the world. Hosted by Andrew Sharp with Ben Thompson.

Latest Episodes:

What's Going on at Amazon? and AI Language Barriers Jan 16, 2023

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Amazon confirms its massive layoffs will affect 18,000 employees — The Verge

Amazon Kept Inventing, and Now It’s Going to Start Cutting — Bloomberg

Amazon Earnings, Amazon’s Costs, Amazon Closes Stores — Stratechery Update

An Interview with Brad Stone about Amazon Unbound — Stratechery Interviews

Day Two to One Day — Stratechery

Alexa: Amazon’s Operating System — Stratechery

Meta open sources early-stage AI translation tool that works across 200 languages — The Verge

Social Networking 2.0 — Stratechery

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GPT in 2023: A Marriage with Microsoft, The Bull and Bear Case for Google, Compute Questions and More Jan 12, 2023

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AI and the Big Five — Stratechery

More on Google and AI; OpenAI, Integration, and Microsoft — Stratechery Update

An Interview with Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman about ChatGPT and the Near-Term Future of AI — Stratechery Interview

FTC Fines Epic, Netflix Ads, YouTube and the NFL — Stratechery Update

Amazon wraps 'TNF' debut season with lower numbers, but much younger demos — Sports Business Journal

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Sharp Tech Holiday Hoopla: Gift Recs and YouTube TV, Microchips and Remote Work, Could ChatGPT Run a Basketball Team? Dec 22, 2022

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FTC Fines Epic, Netflix Ads, YouTube and the NFL — Stratechery Update

YouTube the likely home for 'Sunday Ticket — Sports Business Journal

Alphabet’s YouTube TV Nears Deal For NFL Sunday Ticket. Profiting Will Be a Challenge. — Barron's

Google’s YouTube in Talks for Rights to NFL Sunday Ticket — Wall Street Journal

US targets China’s potential chip stars with new restrictions — Financial Times

How TikTok Became an International Crisis — The New York Times

What Comes Next for the Most Empty Downtown in America — The New York Times

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Another Weekend with Musk: More Chaos, Fewer Options, and an Object Lesson in the Importance of Principles Dec 19, 2022

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Narratives — Stratechery

Twitter and What Might Have Been — Stratechery

Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II — Stratechery

“Light Touch”, Cable, and DSL; The Broadband Tradeoff; The Importance of Antitrust — Stratechery Update

Ajit Pai: the man who could destroy the open internet — The Guardian

What if You Couldn’t See This Page? — The New York Times

The Internet Is Dying. Repealing Net Neutrality Hastens That Death. — The New York Times

The US net neutrality fight affects the whole world — The Verge

Come for the tool, stay for the network — Chris Dixon

How L'Oreal Sculpted The Cosmetics Industry — Strategy Factory

‘Everything that could go wrong did go wrong’ says Alpine boss after double DNF in Austin — Formula 1

Lando Norris: Alpine have done ‘bad job’ to only just be ahead of McLaren — Planet F1

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The Past/Present/Future of Tech Antitrust Arguments and More on TSMC in Arizona Dec 15, 2022

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Consoles and Competition — Stratechery

The App Store and the Digital Markets Act, Third-Party App Stores, Messaging Interoperability Madness — Stratechery Update

The European Commission Versus Android — Stratechery

Will semiconductor plants really drain Arizona? That theory is overblown — AZ Central

Halt and Catch Fire Season 2 Promo — YouTube

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Making Advanced Microchips in Arizona and Imagining a Remote Work Future Dec 13, 2022

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TSMC in Arizona, Arizona Challenges, Realities and Motivations — Stratechery Update

Chips and China — Stratechery

AMD (and Intel) Earnings, TSMC Earnings, Morris Chang on U.S. Semiconductor Production — Stratechery Update

TSMC Raises Arizona Chip Investment to $40 Billion as Biden Visits — Wall Street Journal

The U.S. Commits to Buying Millions of Vaccine Doses. Why That’s Unusual. — New York Times

COVID-19 Vaccine Advance Purchases Explained — The Petrie-Flom Center

Can semiconductor manufacturing return to the US? — Brookings Institute

TSMC founder Morris Chang says globalization 'almost dead' — Nikkei Asia

Transcript of Morris Chang Dec. 11, 2022 — Twitter: @kevinsxu

America Wakes Up?, An Interview with Matt Mullenweg About Working From Home — Stratechery Interviews

How Loneliness Is Damaging Our Health — New York Times

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When AI Moves Faster than Products, Microsoft's Evil Genius, Australian Rules for America's Ad Market, Questions on YouTube/Twitter/Spotify Dec 08, 2022

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Lensa and Stable Diffusion, Stable Diffusion and Apple Silicon, Open Questions — Stratechery Update

Google Earnings, YouTube and Google Cloud, Google’s Falling Margin — Stratechery Update

Media, Regulators, and Big Tech; Indulgences and Injunctions; Better Approaches — Stratechery Update

Non-Fungible Taylor Swift — Stratechery

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A Beginner’s Guide to ChatGPT: How It Works, Why Tech Twitter is Euphoric, and What the Next Challenges Look Like Dec 05, 2022

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AI Homework — Stratechery

ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue — OpenAI

OpenAI’s ChatGPT shows why implementation is key with generative AI — TechCrunch

DALL-E Open to All, OpenAI and Openness, OpenAI Opportunities and Threats — Stratechery Update

“It's like you wake up to the news of first nuclear explosion and you don't know yet what to think about it but you know world will never be the same again.” — Twitter: @styleus

The AI Unbundling — Stratechery

AI Bundling Follow-Up, iPhone Follow-Up — Stratechery Update

An Interview With Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman About the Democratization of AI — Stratechery Interview

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Apple's Exposure in a Musk War, Alexa: Find 10 Billion Dollars, YouTube’s Rev Share Model, The Next Great Tech Movie Dec 01, 2022

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Musk vs. Apple; Advertising, App Store Review, and 30%; Google Headcount — Stratechery Update

Disney Expectations, Twitter Expectations, Silicon Valley Expectations — Stratechery Update

Apple's Twitter ad spend may not have actually dropped — AppleInsider

Beachheads and Obstacles — Stratechery

Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year — Ars Technica

The Social Network — YouTube

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The Cult of Iger and the Future at Disney and ESPN Nov 28, 2022

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Bob Iger Back at Disney; Chapek’s Tactics, Iger’s Strategy; Tactics, Strategy, or Environment — Stratechery Update

Disney Expectations, Twitter Expectations, Silicon Valley Expectations — Stratechery Update

Disney’s Earnings Hurt by Costs at Disney+ — Wall Street Journal

An Interview with Matthew Ball About Disney and Bob Iger — Stratechery Interviews

The Harvard Study of Adult Development began tracking the lives of 268 Harvard sophomores in 1938. — Twitter: @SahilBloom

Good genes are nice, but joy is better — The Harvard Gazette

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