Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

208 Episodes

1. (Preview) Congress and TikTok, Listening to China to Understand the TikTok Concerns, Empty First Amendment Arguments

   Published: 11/03/2024
2. (Preview) Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, Apple’s Bizarre Epic Misstep, What Microsoft Could Teach Google

   Published: 7/03/2024
3. The Road to Personalized LLM Answers, The AI Risk for Aggregators, Anthropic Releases a ‘Near-Human’ Claude 3

   Published: 5/03/2024
4. (Preview) Pichai's Gemini Letter, Nvidia and TSMC and Market Structure, The End of the Apple Car

   Published: 29/02/2024
5. (Preview) AI and the Big Five, Google and the Ongoing Gemini Catastrophe, The Stakes (or Lack Thereof) for Chatbot Output

   Published: 26/02/2024
6. (Preview) The History of Consoles, The Murky Present for Microsoft and Xbox, The Gaming Future for Sony and Meta

   Published: 21/02/2024
7. A Sports Super Bundle, The Next Challenge for Digital Advertising, Zuckerberg Reviews the Apple Vision Pro

   Published: 15/02/2024
8. (Preview) The Vision Pro and the Newton, The Case Against AVP as an Entertainment Device, The Most Valuable Tech Product of All

   Published: 8/02/2024
9. First Impressions of the Vision Pro: What It Is, What It Might Have Been, and a Note About Guest Mode

   Published: 6/02/2024
10. Mailbag: A Navy SEAL on the Vision Pro, Reading 10-Qs, Apple Follow Up, Netflix and Books, Unsolicited Parenting Advice

    Published: 1/02/2024
11. (Preview) Google’s Lumiere, The App Store and Lost Innovation, The Tension Between Property Rights and Public Interests

    Published: 30/01/2024
12. Why Netflix Bet on Wrestling, The Future of Watching Sports, Recapping a Week at the World Economic Forum in Davos

    Published: 25/01/2024
13. (Preview) Apple's Latest App Store Gambit, iTunes and Macworld Context, Vision Pro Developers on Strike

    Published: 23/01/2024
14. (Preview) The Peacock Playoff Experiment, Revisiting the OpenAI Lawsuit, Big Picture Questions After the Boeing Mess

    Published: 16/01/2024
15. (Preview) Another Max Mess for Boeing, Boeing as a Case Study, ESPN and the Vision Pro

    Published: 10/01/2024
16. The New York Times Sues OpenAI, Napster History vs. ChatGPT Future, Copyright Enforcement at the Aggregator Level

    Published: 8/01/2024
17. (Preview) Sharp Tech Holiday Hoopla: Streaming Mergers, Kitchen Tech, Worst Decisions, MBA Advice, Mac vs. PC and More

    Published: 22/12/2023
18. Apple Gets a Patent War for Christmas, Europe's Ability to Hijack the Regulatory Process, Systemic Questions After Adobe-Figma

    Published: 20/12/2023
19. Mailbag: Google and Antitrust Festivus, Credit Card Dominance, AI for Movies and Writing, Shohei’s Contract

    Published: 13/12/2023
20. (Preview) Google's Killer Instinct, The Gemini Demo and AI Unknowns, Notes on College Football and Mark Cuban

    Published: 11/12/2023