Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

203 Episodes

1. ESPN as Cable’s Grim Reaper, How the Cable Bundle Crumbled, What Taylor Swift Can Teach Content Companies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Published: 3/16/2023
16. The SVB Collapse, How the Government Responded, and the Era in Tech that Ended This Weekend

    Published: 3/13/2023
17. (Preview) Xbox History and VR’s Future, The TikTok Ban, Much to Consider Before a Pivot from Big Tech

    Published: 3/9/2023
18. What the NBA Can Learn from Formula 1, Why ESPN May Need to Pivot Too, The EPL Outlier and Apple's MLS Experiment

    Published: 3/6/2023
19. The Google Culture Question, A Law of Large Companies, Twitter's Algorithm Plans, Apple's Attempt at Glucose Monitoring

    Published: 2/27/2023
20. (Preview) What Spotify Learned About Podcasting, The RSN Train Wheezing Along, Does ESPN Need the NBA?

    Published: 2/23/2023