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This year Stratechery published 26 free Articles, 109 subscriber Updates, and 39 Interviews. Below is a summary of most of ...

ChatGPT Image 1.5 launched, and while it seems comparable to Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, the product around it shows OpenAI’s ...

Disney made a deal with OpenAI, which both speaks to the durability of Disney’s assets and to OpenAI’s competition with Google.

Warner Bros. started with distribution. Just after the turn of the century, Harry, Albert, Sam, and Jack Warner bought a second-hand projector and started showing short films in Ohio and Pennsylvania ...

A common explanation as to why Star Wars was such a hit, and continues to resonate nearly half a century on from its release, is that it is a nearly perfect representation of the hero’s journey. You ...

It was difficult in the beginning to answer the question I got from everyone: what’s it like living in America again? After all, I had been coming back to Wisconsin in the summer for years, and my ...

There seems, at first glance, to be little in common between the two big stories of the last two weeks. On October 9, China announced expansive export controls on rare earths, which are critical to ...

OpenAI’s flood of announcements is getting hard to keep up with. A selection — not exhaustive! — from just the last month: The last two announcements just dropped yesterday, and actually bring clarity ...

I don’t do memes frequently, but I’ve used this one twice: Alas, I think I need to retire it. From the Wall Street Journal: Meta Platforms posted 22% revenue growth in the second quarter, showing its ...

It’s fun — and often accurate — to think of tech companies in pairs. Apple and Microsoft defined the PC market; Microsoft and Intel won it. Google and Meta dominate digital advertising; Apple and ...