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Sharp Tech Holiday Hoopla: Gift Recs and YouTube TV, Microchips and Remote Work, Could ChatGPT Run a Basketball Team? Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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GPT in 2023: A Marriage with Microsoft, The Bull and Bear Case for Google, Compute Questions and More Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Vision Pro at First Sight: How It Works, Why It Costs $3,500, and What It Might Mean for the Future of Computing Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Another Weekend with Musk: More Chaos, Fewer Options, and an Object Lesson in the Importance of Principles Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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A Closer Look at Opendoor and Cloudflare and Responses to Your FTX Emails Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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A Viking Funeral for Sydney the Chatbot, Meta’s Verified Experiment, Algorithms and Liability as Section 230 Takes Center Stage Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Cloudflare in 2023, Macro Conditions and Microsoft, Questions and Answers on the Tech Layoffs, Diving Deeper (literally) on MVNOs Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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What the NBA Can Learn from Formula 1, Why ESPN May Need to Pivot Too, The EPL Outlier and Apple's MLS Experiment Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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The New York Times, Fake News, and Seven Years of Misdirected Energy Preview:
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The Cult of Iger and the Future at Disney and ESPN Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Making Sense of the FTX Catastrophe and a Reality Check on Twitter Under Musk Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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A Few Questions Before Apple Embraces Virtual Reality, Meta Tries to Crash Headset Week, Nvidia and the Omniverse Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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What Google Wants to Do with AI, The Tensions Inherent to AI Regulation, Can an Apple Headset Revive VR? Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Appropriate Fear of Microsoft, A Workplace Efficiency Counterpoint, Artifact and Substack in the Modern Era Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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ESPN as Cable’s Grim Reaper, How the Cable Bundle Crumbled, What Taylor Swift Can Teach Content Companies Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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The Past/Present/Future of Tech Antitrust Arguments and More on TSMC in Arizona Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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An Impromptu Nvidia Symposium, A Brief History of Solaris and Sun Microsystems, The Future of AI Energy Consumption Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Meta Takes Llama Open Source, Why Llama Might Be More Important than OpenAI, ChatGPT Hits a Plateau Preview:
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Fair Use Follow-Up, LLMs in Litigation, Positives and Negatives for Zoom, The Ultimate Apple Mystery Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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The Threads Episode: How We Got Here, Meta Obstacles and Advantages, Everyone Hates Twitter (And Uses It Every Day) Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Charter Wins and Does Disney a Favor, Charter and the Broadband Market, SMIC Gets the US Government’s Attention Today's episode is free for everyone. Preview:
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The Chip Ban Seven Months Later, China's Response, More on Intel and Tower Semiconductor Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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100th Episode Mailbag: New MacBooks, CarPlay Closure, Dennard Scaling and the Chip Ban, Netflix and a Prestige Tier, Hardware as a Service Preview:
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Meta’s EU Plans and Microsoft’s AI Pricing, The Barbell Effect Hits College Football, Photo Sharing in Parenthood Preview:
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Questions, Concerns and Unknowns after the China Chip Ban Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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The Hamas Attacks and Social Media, Competing Public Interests, Efforts to Stay Sane in a New Information Ecosystem Today's episode is free for everyone. Preview:
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Generative AI and Copyright, When AI Hits the Music Business, The Social Media that Comes After Twitter Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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The Future of Buying and Selling Houses, Two Price Fixing Lawsuits, The In-Season Tournament and Ronald Reagan Preview:
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Encouraging Netflix Earnings, Continuing Questions, and How the Model Might Evolve Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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What Spotify Learned About Podcasting, The RSN Train Wheezing Along, Does ESPN Need the NBA? Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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The Path to an ESPN Streaming Network, Disney Follow-Up and Fox Success, Two Perspectives on Google Photos Preview:
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Solving Online Groceries, Explaining Those Cheap New Cell Phone Plans, Autonomous Deliveries, Tech vs. Humans in Content Development Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Google/Facebook/Snap Earnings and Another Dimension of Automation Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Tech and Two Strikes in Hollywood, Harsh Streaming Realities and a Big Residuals Mess, Iger’s Challenges at Disney Preview:
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A Twitter Temperature Check, Reactions to that AI Open Letter, The Technical Logistics of a TikTok Ban Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Microsoft’s Snafu and Apple’s Shenanigans, Car Companies with SaaS Envy, The Logic Behind Delta's SkyMiles Move Preview:
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Mailbag: Metaverse Week Concludes, A Hater's Take on Virtual Reality, The Apple Question, Touring the Stratechery Travel Kit: Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Mailbag: Down the 230 Rabbit Hole, A Third Door Moderation Approach, Twitter Follow-Up, Andrew Responds to the Nicest Angry Emails Ever Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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A Big Week for AI, Closed Source vs. Open Source Development, Meta in the "Year of Efficiency" Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Holiday Hoopla Part Two: Fictional Tech That Should Be Real, Worst Acquisitions Rushmore, Dear Abby/Ben, The Three Sports Rules We’d Change Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Mailbag: Apple Privacy Counterpoint, Covid and Content Moderation, Phoenix Suns Sale, Justice for Gamers (September 29, 2022): Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Venture-Backed Businesses of the Past Decade, Why Streamers Want Sports Rights, The Suns Choose Reach over RSN Fees Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Scheduling Note: There will be no episode of Sharp Tech today, we’ll be back on Monday.
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What’s the Deal with Micropayments?, Costs and Benefits and Twitter Blue, More Thoughts on Microsoft-Activision Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Netflix as a Sleeping Ad-Supported Giant, 'Max' and the Other Streamers, Whether Nvidia Shall Inherit the Earth Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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An All Things Apple Mailbag: AI and the Vision Pro, Gaming Ambivalence, Immersive Memories, VR Sports Rights Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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A Beginner's Guide to ARM, Amazon and Buy with Prime, Apple in the 90s, Who Wants to Own WWE? Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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China Turmoil and America’s Hidden Superpower, Bing vs. Google Six Months Later, Studios Disrupted Themselves to Invent Broadcast TV Preview:
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Microsoft Wins Its Activision Case, What is Next for the Merger and the FTC, Follow-Up Questions on Threads and Twitter Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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The Case for Supersonic Travel, End of June Mail on TSMC/Google/Reddit, Touching Grass in Madison Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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New Metaverse Dreams and Old Metaverse Questions (October 11, 2022): Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Evaluating AI Risk and Entering an Era of Incredible Unknowns Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Google’s Lesson for Hardware Dreamers, How Facebook and Apple Can Help Each Other, A Case for Touching Parchment Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Meta Comes Roaring Back, What the Market Missed Last Fall, The Compromises that Define the Modern Internet Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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How Google Conquered Ads, What the DOJ Wants to Do About It, Follow-Ups on Free Netflix, Checking in with Peloton Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Google vs. Bing Begins, Bear Cases for AI, Apple's Lost Hardware Opportunity, The Implications of the Bally Sports Bankruptcy Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Is the iPhone Still Interesting?, Unity’s New Model for Mobile Developers, YouTube Highlights and Taylor Swift’s New Movie Preview:
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The UK Blocks Microsoft-Activision, Globalized Companies and Local Regulations, Antitrust and Innovation Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Windows and the AI Platform Shift, OpenAI Enters the App Store, Follow-Up on Sports Streaming and Cable Hindsight Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Spotify’s Royal Mess, Ford and GM Partner with Tesla, HBO Weighs Selling Content to Netflix Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Apple's Exposure in a Musk War, Alexa: Find 10 Billion Dollars, YouTube’s Rev Share Model, The Next Great Tech Movie Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Clown Car History Lessons, Both Sides of the Twitter-Substack Fight, Parenthood Tech Strategies Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Cable Temperature Check and a Bundle Experiment (October 4, 2022): Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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What's Going on at Amazon? and AI Language Barriers Subscribe at or Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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Nvidia Backlash and the China Conundrum (September 27, 2022): Subscribe at or on Spotify Questions/Comments: email @sharptech .fm
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