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Stratechery is launching a new podcast: Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson. In addition, the Stratechery Update subscription has now been expanded to the Stratechery Plus subscription, including the Stratechery Update, Stratechery Interviews, Sharp Tech, and Dithering.

AI is starting to unbundle the final part of the idea propagation value chain: idea creation and substantiation. The impacts will be far-reaching.

Apple introduced some impressive product updates; the real news, though, were the prices, which suggested that Apple is fully embracing being a services company.

Google is not bound by the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, but its actions in a false positive CSAM case show that it is flouting the spirit behind them.

Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram's response to TikTok, and will determine Meta's long-term moat.

Chips are the clearest example that economic efficiencies will not be the ultimate decider of technology's end state: politics will play an important role.

The Big Ten's recent expansion is being blamed on Fox and ESPN, but it is actually an example of content extracting maximum value through consolidation

The original definition of Aggregation Theory emphasized the importance of commoditized supply; that makes Spotify more of an Aggregator than Netflix

Zero-COVID is possible, but few of us in the West are willing to pay the costs; the exact same reasoning applies to free speech; in both cases China-lite is the worst possible strategy.