Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

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

May 15, 2025

00:11:19

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

May 8, 2025

01:19:04

(Preview) What’s Next for Apple and the App Store, The Risks of Continuing This Fight, More on Meta and Its AI Vision

May 5, 2025

00:13:41

(Preview) Meta and Its Many Plans in AI, Apple Gets Hammered in Court, The Costs of Waiting to Do the Right Thing

May 1, 2025

00:10:25

(Preview) All About AI Companions: Personalization Upsides, Dystopian Downsides, AI Therapy, Advertising Tension, and Lots More

April 28, 2025

00:10:47

Apple and the Ghosts of Companies Past, Privacy at the Expense of Performance, The Cook Question

April 24, 2025

01:00:09

(Preview) What Memory Can Do for ChatGPT, OpenAI's Future and Google's Circles Past, What College Football Can Teach Us About Tech

April 21, 2025

00:16:00

Three Eras of Facebook (and the Internet), The Problems with FTC v. Meta, The Realities of Perfect Competition

April 17, 2025

01:09:24

(Preview) Apple Gets a Temporary Reprieve, The End of Internet 2.0, An Incomplete Tech Blog Post Canon

April 14, 2025

00:11:56

American Disruption, Tech’s Manufacturing History in Asia, The Power of Demand in an Uncertain Future

April 10, 2025

01:14:28

(Preview) xAI Buys X, The Bitter Lesson for Everyone, Everywhere, Google’s Only Hope in AI

March 31, 2025

00:12:58

(Preview) The Delights of Images in GPT, The Future of Graphic Design, Signal and Multiple Dimensions of Security

March 27, 2025

00:09:08

(Preview) Why Google Wants Wiz for $32 Billion, Xbox One and Bygone Streaming Hardware Dreams, Immortality and Daylight Saving Time

March 24, 2025

00:13:33

(Preview) Deep Research and OpenAI's Business Model, A Counterpoint on White Collar Concerns, The Future of Cognition and Companionship

March 21, 2025

00:14:11

(Preview) Should Apple Buy Perplexity?, What Apple Could Learn from IBM, Vision Pro and Its Vaporware

March 17, 2025

00:14:47

Apple History and Apple Psychology, How Apple Should Capitalize On Its AI Potential, Why It Probably Won't

March 13, 2025

01:08:55

(Preview) The Murky Future for the NBA, A Variety of Notes on Apple and AI, In Defense of Tech That Removes Friction

March 10, 2025

00:11:36

(Preview) YouTube Shall Inherit the Earth, NBC’s Peacock Strategy Then and Now, The Grim Future for Cable Networks

March 6, 2025

00:14:22

(Preview) Amazon Introduces an AI-Powered Alexa, Is OpenAI the New BlackBerry?, The Social Costs of Removing Friction

March 3, 2025

00:12:40

AI Promises and Chip Precariousness, Policy Recommendations and a Changing World, Concerns and Counterpoints

Feb. 27, 2025

01:25:55

(Preview) Apple’s Answer to the UK, Encryption History and Privacy’s Future, Waiting for Drone Delivery in the U.S.

Feb. 24, 2025

00:14:02

(Preview) Xi Jinping and China's Tech Companies, The Long-Run Implications of the Chip Ban, and a Pessimistic Outlook for Taiwan

Feb. 19, 2025

00:15:45

(Preview) Experimenting With OpenAI’s Deep Research, Another ChatGPT Moment, Won’t Someone Think of the Entry-Level Employees?

Feb. 6, 2025

00:12:17

(Preview) Apple Abandons Its Smart Glasses, Google as the Yellow Pages, LLMs and the Overton Window

Feb. 3, 2025

00:13:10

The End of DeepSeek Week: Moneyball for AI, The Future of Compute Demand, Geopolitical Reality Checks, and More

Jan. 30, 2025

01:15:59

(Preview) 72 Hours of DeepSeek Hysteria, What DeepSeek Means for Big Tech, Lessons on the Efficacy of Chip Controls

Jan. 27, 2025

00:12:05

(Preview) The End of OpenAI and Microsoft, Risks and Rationale of the Stargate Project, DeepSeek-R1 and Bitter Lessons for the Future

Jan. 23, 2025

00:13:59

(Preview) A Long Weekend for TikTok, Preparing for Trump and an Era of Upheaval, LeBron James as an iPhone

Jan. 20, 2025

00:10:52

AI’s Uneven Arrival, TikTok’s Potential Departure, Xiaohongshu and the Delights of Cultural Exchange

Jan. 16, 2025

01:09:35

(Preview) Meta’s Moderation Changes, Tech’s Evolving Political Calculus, The Importance and Difficulty of Maintaining Principles on the Internet

Jan. 14, 2025

00:14:41

(Preview) What AI Could Mean for Aggregation Theory, o3 and Moore’s Law, More Questions Than Answers as Tech Enters 2025

Jan. 6, 2025

00:13:40

Holiday Mailbag: The Next Intel, Google’s AI Revival, Modern Sportswriting, TSMC Mugs, Tutoring Takes, and Lots More

Dec. 19, 2024

01:40:09

(Preview) Google’s Willow Chip, Drones as a Platform and Anduril Follow-Up, Building Inside and Outside Silicon Valley

Dec. 16, 2024

00:22:12

(Preview) Anduril and the Lattice Partner Program, A New Direction for Defense Tech, OpenAI Introduces ChatGPT Pro

Dec. 12, 2024

00:10:50

(Preview) Mailbag: Building Toward Self-Driving Computers, Capitalism and Its Trade-Offs, The Reels-ification of 'X'

Dec. 9, 2024

00:14:27

Gelsinger Out at Intel, 20 Years of Structural Challenges and Strategic Blindspots, The Board and What’s Next

Dec. 5, 2024

01:04:24

(Preview) Mailbag: AppLovin on a Tear, The Business of OnlyFans, Questions on OpenAI and Elon Musk

Dec. 2, 2024

00:13:40

(Preview) LLM Utilities, Google Disruption, Remote Work Angst, Family Tech Support, and a Thanksgiving Mailbag

Nov. 26, 2024

00:18:21

America and the Trade Status Quo, Tariffs and What May Come Next, A Chance to Build in Tech and Beyond

Nov. 22, 2024

01:08:40

(Preview) Monday Mailbag: Netflix and Its Mike Tyson Adventures; WBD Settles with the NBA; Lessons from Building Passport

Nov. 18, 2024

00:13:15