Competition
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An Interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters About Engagement and Warner Bros.
An interview with Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters about engagement, competition, and the Warner Bros. acquisition.
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TSMC Earnings, The TSMC Brake Revisited, Why AI Needs Foundry Competition
TSMC admitted that it has invested too little in the face of overwhelming demand for AI; that’s why the industry needs to facilitate competition for the foundry leader.
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Nvidia and Groq, A Stinkily Brilliant Deal, Why This Deal Makes Sense
Nvidia is licensing Groq’s technology and hiring most of its employees; it’s the most potent application of tech’s don’t-call-it-an-acquisition deal model yet.
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ChatGPT Image 1.5; Apple v. Epic, Continued; Holiday Schedule
ChatGPT Image 1.5 launched, and while it seems comparable to Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, the product around it shows OpenAI’s advantages. Then, Apple v. Epic rolls on.
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Netflix and the Hollywood End Game
Netflix is driving the Hollywood end game, likely confident it can increase the value of IP, and fend off YouTube.
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iPhones 17 and the Sugar Water Trap
Apple’s iPhone announcement was impressive, but no one was impressed, because Apple is increasingly peripheral to what is changing the world.
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Google Remedy Decision, Reasonable Remedies, The Google Patronage Network
Google lost some battles but won the war in its search distribution case: the Google patronage network was deemed too important to undo.
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Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem
Windsurf’s founders and IP are going to Google in the latest stinky deal that is downstream of regulator’s recklessly messing the startup ecosystem.
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Apple Retreats
Apple’s WWDC was a retreat from not just last year’s WWDC, but potentially a broader reset for the company. That’s why it was a great presentation.