Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI. An interview ...

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OpenAI is acquiring io, Jony Ive’s hardware company. Is the company actually focused on displacing Apple? Apple needs to spend big in response.

Microsoft is putting forth compelling proposals for the Open Agentic Web. However, the proposal needs digital payments, which will be key to creating a new content marketplace for AI.

With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update and Stratechery Interviews, and the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts. A ...

With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update and Stratechery Interviews, and the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts. A ...

Airbnb has a new app with new offerings for experience and services; I’m not sure the economics make sense for either.

With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only Stratechery Update and Stratechery Interviews, and the Sharp Tech, Sharp China, Dithering, Greatest of All Talk, and Asianometry podcasts.

In 2015, Felix Salmon wrote about The Ingredients of a Great Newsletter, and used yours truly as an example. While that page no longer exists, the annotations Salmon made to my February 5, 2015 Update ...

Apple is not doomed, although things were feeling pretty shaky a couple of weeks ago, when the so-called “Liberation Day” tariffs were poised to make the company’s manufacturing model massively more ...