The best Stratechery content from the week of June 16, 2025, including OpenAI getting testy and xAI getting expensive, ...

Microsoft and AI continue to fight, and WhatsApp adds ads and subscriptions (and I explain why as a creator I’m not ...

Everyone wants xAI to exist, but is anyone actually using it? Then, Xbox as it once existed is dead; it’s just Windows now.

Greatest Of All Talk A twice-weekly podcast from Andrew Sharp and Ben Golliver about the NBA, life, and national parks. Sharp China A weekly podcast from Andrew Sharp and Sinocism’s Bill Bishop about ...

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