Category: Strategy


  • An Interview with Ben Bajarin about AI infrastructure, Nvidia, and Intel. Source: Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

  • OpenAI’s Instant Checkout highlights why AI commerce fills a unique role, to the benefit of Shopify and Etsy; will it work better than Meta’s native Checkout? Source: Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

  • The Internet hates Vibes, MetaAI’s new AI video feed, but I find it compelling and a fascinating look at a VR future. Source: Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

  • 2025.39: The YouTube Juggernaut

    (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for Made on YouTube 2025) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone. Additionally, you have complete control over what we send to you. If you don’t…

  • Good morning, This week’s Stratechery Interview is with Booking Holdings CEO Glenn Fogel. Booking is one of my favorite companies in the world: they are a textbook Aggregator. And, in a fascinating twist, they are also among the best at managing Google, the biggest Aggregator of them all. In this interview we discuss both dynamics,…

  • YouTube is reinstating accounts that were banned for alleged misinformation, and Google admits they made mistakes; the company — and big tech broadly — should go further, and lead the way in re-establishing the cultural importance of free expression. Source: Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

  • Listen to this post: Log in to listen Action is happening up-and-down the LLM stack: Nvidia is making deals with Intel, OpenAI is making deals with Oracle, and Nvidia and OpenAI are making deals with each other. Nine years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hand-delivered the first Nvidia DGX-1 AI computer to OpenAI, the chip…

  • Intel and Nvidia have made a historic deal; it’s good for Intel (and Nvidia), but doesn’t solve their — and the U.S.’s — fundamental problems. Source: Stratechery by Ben Thompson.

  • 2025.38: Meta, YouTube, and Tech Press Attention

    (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) Welcome back to This Week in Stratechery! As a reminder, each week, every Friday, we’re sending out this overview of content in the Stratechery bundle; highlighted links are free for everyone. Additionally, you have complete control over what we send to you. If you don’t want to receive This Week…

  • Meta announced Ray-Ban Displays, their first glasses product with a display. I think it’s very compelling in part because it is limited. Source: Stratechery by Ben Thompson.