Sharp Tech with Ben Thompson

(Preview) The Futures for Cursor and Perplexity, Multi Modality Dreams and Apple Possibilities, Normies Contemplate an AI Future

Apple’s WWDC Retreat, Liquid Glass and One Question, Meta Puts $14.8 Billion Toward an AI Reset

In this episode of Sharp Tech, Andrew Sharp and Ben Thompson discuss Apple's WWDC announcements, including the Vision Pro, Apple Intelligence, and the new Liquid Glass UI, with Ben expressing cautious optimism about Apple's more sensible approach this year. They analyze Apple's strategy of opening on-device AI models t...

(Preview) Nike’s Lessons on the Internet, Why Nike on Amazon Makes Sense, Meta and Anduril and Silicon Valley History

(Preview) Operation Spider's Web and Global Trade, More on io and Devices of the Future, The Allure of Sports on Streaming

(Preview) The End of the Ad-Supported Internet, Imagining What Comes Next, A Human-AI Agent PSA

In this episode of Sharp Tech, Andrew Sharp and Ben Thompson discuss the state of the web and the obsolescence of the ad-supported human internet model. Ben argues that while advertising has its downsides, it has enabled the creation and distribution of niche products and content, citing examples like the TinyPilot KVM...

OpenAI Enters the Hardware Business, The Challenges and Opportunities for Jony Ive, Takeaways from Google I/O 2025

(Preview) The U.S. Partners with the Middle East in AI, Why OpenAI Is Acquiring Windsurf, Google’s Side of the Platform Wars

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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