The best Stratechery content from the week of July 13, 2026, including the end of the mainframe, the continuing adventures of OpenAI, and answering the question, "Is Netflix Washed?". | Continue reading
IBM announced preliminary results that spooked the software market generally; this is a story, however, specifically about IBM and its mainframe franchise. | Continue reading
OpenAI has refashioned Codex as the new ChatGPT; is the company abandoning the chat category they pioneered? | Continue reading
Apple is suing AI for stealing trade secrets; there is one guilty employee, but this mostly feels like lashing out. | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of July 6, 2026, including a word from Mark Zuckerberg*, pulling the plug on XBOX, and toilet talk. | Continue reading
The batter for verifiable data is increasingly defining the AI race, from Meta to Grok to the frontier labs. | Continue reading
Microsoft's Xbox division is conducting big layoffs, as the company deals with abject failure of its Game Pass strategy. | Continue reading
A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call. | Continue reading
Stratechery is on summer break the week of June 29. There will be no Weekly Article or Updates. The next Update will be on Monday, July 6. Dithering, Sharp Tech, and Sharp China will also return the week of July 6. Greatest of All Talk and Asianometry will continue to publish. Th … | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of June 22, 2026, including a vibe coding adventure, Apple in Europe, and a midsummer mailbag. | Continue reading
An interview with Figma CEO Dylan Field about building Figma, and why he believes AI gives the company a tailwind. | Continue reading
My experience and reflections on vibe coding an app that I plan on actually using regularly. | Continue reading
The big three memory makers may come to regret opening up the door to Chinese memory makers; Microsoft, meanwhile, is very incentivized to use Chinese models. | Continue reading
Apple is (finally) raising prices, but they're not shipping Siri AI to the E.U. | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of June 15, 2026, including Anthropic, e-commerce in the age of AI, and the NBA Finals being a perfect 10. | Continue reading
An interview with Michael Morton about e-commerce and AI, including the challenges of unfalsifiable bear cases, distribution versus referal models, grocery, and autonomous vehicles. | Continue reading
The administration is very likely wrong about Fable, but that is ultimately Anthropic's responsibility. | Continue reading
The market hates Fox's acquisition of Roku, but the company is trading extraction from rights holders for leverage as a renter. | Continue reading
Anthropic's belief in its own commitment to safety gives the company license to aggressively favor its business and even challenge the U.S. government. | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of June 8, 2026, including Apple finally shipping Intelligence, Anthropic's fable, and the future of European industry. | Continue reading
An interview with Ben Bajarin about WWDC and the status of the AI compute industry. | Continue reading
Fable 5 is the public version of Mythos, and while it is very capable it sets some troubling new precedents. | Continue reading
Siri isn't state of the art, but as long as it works — and it appears it does — it's good enough for the consumer market. | Continue reading
Google's deal with SpaceX, and Broadcom's earnings, both seem bullish for Nvidia. Then, what I'm looking for at WWDC. | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of June 1, 2026, including Google and Microsoft, YouTubers taking over Hollywood, and a guide to the NBA Finals. | Continue reading
An interview with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella about figuring out Microsoft's role in AI, the relationship with OpenAI, Capex, Software, and a potential new agentic platform. | Continue reading
The Nvidia AI PC feels like a relic of another AI era; Microsoft's vision for devices at Build was much more compelling. | Continue reading
Google has issued equity to Berkshire Hathaway in a deal that signals far more demand and a future where capital is the ultimate commodity. | Continue reading
YouTubers are ruling the box office, and it shouldn't be a surprise: succeeding on YouTube is a much higher bar than the gates that currently govern Hollywood. | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of May 25, 2026, including why everyone hates Luce, how to monetize AI answers, and social mobility in China. | Continue reading
An Interview with Eric Seufert about building models for generative AI, why Meta's foundational models are so important, and why understanding advertising leads to optimism about humanity's future. | Continue reading
There isn't a financial model that justifies the SpaceX IPO, but data centers in space are plausible, and that might be enough. | Continue reading
Nvidia is changing its reporting to delineate between hyperscaler sales — where Nvidia is fighting commoditization — and everyone else, where Nvidia runs the whole stack. | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of May 18, 2026, including data center discontent, agent economics, and slime mold. | Continue reading
An interview with Parallel founder Parag Agarwal about valuing content and incentivizing its creation in a world of agents (plus questions about Twitter). | Continue reading
Google I/O put AI everywhere, for better and for worse. Meanwhile, is DeepMind aligned with Google's business objectives? | Continue reading
There are understandable reasons for people to oppose data centers; the only solution that will work is simply paying them off. | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of May 11, 2026, including a new kind of computing, Elon Musk, and 360 degrees of US-China relations. | Continue reading
An interview with me about the implications of the compute shortage on Aggregation Theory, consumer AI, and more. | Continue reading
OpenAI is forming a new company to deploy AI, and the other labs aren't far behind, reinforcing the thesis that AI's impact will require top-down implementation. Then, Apple has economic reasons to work with Intel. | Continue reading
The Anthropic xAI deal is shocking but not surprising: Musk should double down on serving other companies. | Continue reading
Agentic inference is going to be different than the inference we use today, and it will change compute infrastructure because speed won't matter when humans aren't involved. | Continue reading
The best Stratechery content from the week of May 4, 2026, including what we learned from Big Tech's first quarter, a conversation with Joanna Stern, and asking what's next for the Boston Celtics. | Continue reading
An interview with Joanna Stern about her new book about living with AI, and starting her own media company. | Continue reading
Microsoft unveils its new agentic business model, and Apple confronts shortages in memory and chips even as the Mac benefits from AI. | Continue reading
Amazon looked behind in AI in the training era, but is well place in the inference era, thanks to its continued investment in the long-term. | Continue reading
Wall Street loved Google's earnings, and hated Meta's, even though the latter's core business was more impressive. The difference is that Google is monetizing its investments now (and it might be all Anthropic). | Continue reading