Stratechery is on holiday from December 22, 2025 to January 2, 2026; the next Stratechery Update will be on Monday, January 5. In addition, Sharp Tech, Sharp China, and Dithering will all return ...

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.

Box’s route to its IPO, ten years ago this month, was a difficult one: the company first released an S-1 in March 2014, and potential investors were aghast at the company’s mounting losses; the ...

The first video game was a 1952 research product called OXO — tic-tac-toe played on a computer the size of a large room: Copyright Computer Laboratory, University ...

That image is from Robert Gordon’s book The Rise and Fall of American Growth; one of the more startling facts surrounding this graph is that between 1910 and 1930 the average household purchased 3.1 ...

Last week OpenAI released DALL-E 2, which produces (or edits) images based on textual prompts; this Twitter thread from @BecomingCritter has a whole host of example output, including Teddy bears ...

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 ...

The vast majority of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers decision in Epic v. Apple is both straight-forward and predictable; I wrote that the iPhone company would likely win when the lawsuit was filed, and ...

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 ...

Matthew Yglesias, in his new book One Billion Americans, admits: The One Billion Americans agenda — tripling the American population — is a radical suggestion that lies well outside the boundaries of ...

Nvidia investors have been in the valley before: This chart, though, is not from the last two years, but rather from the beginning of 2017 to the beginning of 2019; here is 2017 to today: Three big ...