Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

208 Episodes

1. An All Things Apple Mailbag: AI and the Vision Pro, Gaming Ambivalence, Immersive Memories, VR Sports Rights

   Published: 6/13/2023
2. (Preview) Vision Pro at First Sight: How It Works, Why It Costs $3,500, and What It Might Mean for the Future of Computing

   Published: 6/7/2023
3. A Few Questions Before Apple Embraces Virtual Reality, Meta Tries to Crash Headset Week, Nvidia and the Omniverse

   Published: 6/4/2023
4. (Preview) An Impromptu Nvidia Symposium, A Brief History of Solaris and Sun Microsystems, The Future of AI Energy Consumption

   Published: 6/1/2023
5. (Preview) Windows and the AI Platform Shift, OpenAI Enters the App Store, Follow-Up on Sports Streaming and Cable Hindsight

   Published: 5/25/2023
6. ESPN as Cable’s Grim Reaper, How the Cable Bundle Crumbled, What Taylor Swift Can Teach Content Companies

   Published: 5/22/2023
7. (Preview) What Google Wants to Do with AI, The Tensions Inherent to AI Regulation, Can an Apple Headset Revive VR?

   Published: 5/17/2023
8. (Preview) Google’s Lesson for Hardware Dreamers, How Facebook and Apple Can Help Each Other, A Case for Touching Parchment

   Published: 5/11/2023
9. The Chip Ban Seven Months Later, China's Response, More on Intel and Tower Semiconductor

   Published: 5/8/2023
10. (Preview) Venture-Backed Businesses of the Past Decade, Why Streamers Want Sports Rights, The Suns Choose Reach over RSN Fees

    Published: 5/4/2023
11. What’s the Deal with Micropayments?, Costs and Benefits and Twitter Blue, More Thoughts on Microsoft-Activision

    Published: 5/1/2023
12. (Preview) The UK Blocks Microsoft-Activision, Globalized Companies and Local Regulations, Antitrust and Innovation

    Published: 4/27/2023
13. Netflix as a Sleeping Ad-Supported Giant, 'Max' and the Other Streamers, Whether Nvidia Shall Inherit the Earth

    Published: 4/24/2023
14. (Preview) Fair Use Follow-Up, LLMs in Litigation, Positives and Negatives for Zoom, The Ultimate Apple Mystery

    Published: 4/20/2023
15. Generative AI and Copyright, When AI Hits the Music Business, The Social Media that Comes After Twitter

    Published: 4/17/2023
16. Clown Car History Lessons, Both Sides of the Twitter-Substack Fight, Parenthood Tech Strategies

    Published: 4/10/2023
17. (Preview) A Twitter Temperature Check, Reactions to that AI Open Letter, The Technical Logistics of a TikTok Ban

    Published: 3/30/2023
18. Evaluating AI Risk and Entering an Era of Incredible Unknowns

    Published: 3/27/2023
19. Appropriate Fear of Microsoft, A Workplace Efficiency Counterpoint, Artifact and Substack in the Modern Era

    Published: 3/20/2023
20. (Preview) A Big Week for AI, Closed Source vs. Open Source Development, Meta in the "Year of Efficiency"

    Published: 3/16/2023