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Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

A podcast about understanding how tech works and the way it is changing the world. Hosted by Andrew

Episodes

Total: 235

Ben and Andrew return from the holidays to check in on the AI landscape. Topics include: Aggreg

Ending the year with a slew of great emails from listeners, including questions about the next U.S.

A high level read on Google's quantum computing announcement and Google's R&D efforts g

Unpacking a quietly significant announcement from Anduril this week, the future of hardware and

First, a follow-up to Ben's article on Gen AI and the future of user interfaces, and then email

A closer look at Intel's fall from grace in the wake of CEO Pat Gelsinger's sudden retireme

Returning from the holiday week with a look at the explosive growth of AppLovin, various takeaways

Celebrating the holiday week with emails from subscribers. Topics include: integrating LLMs into th

Talking through the evolution of the modern trade landscape, the implications of tariffs under a ne

The Jake Paul-Mike Tyson fight and what might have gone wrong for Netflix on Friday night, a resolu

An emailer wonders whether 30 years of Internet investments and data were the bootloader for an AI

Looking to President Trump's first term for clues about what tech policy might look like for th

An email comparing James Harden to a tech company spawns several other tech and basketball crossove

Talking through Ben's piece on Meta and Abundance, including the past, present and future of Me

The open questions about competition in AI and enterprise software, emails regarding text-to-voice

A closer look at the emergence of stablecoins, their utility in crypto and cross-border payments, p

OpenAI's latest valuation and the value of the ChatGPT brand, the AGI clause in the OpenAI-Micr

Understanding Tesla’s approach to an autonomous driving future, why some observers think Tesla is a

Explaining the SpaceX breakthrough over the weekend and why it mattered, an email about the next de

An injunction in the wake of the Epic v. Google case highlights the value of network effects in the