Meta won another fair use case, even though the judge wanted to rule against LLMs; he’ll have a hard time doing so.

Stratechery is on summer break the week of June 30. There will be no Weekly Article or Updates. The next Update will be on Monday, July 7. Dithering, Sharp Tech, and Sharp China will also return th… ...

The first big AI copyright decision has come down, and it’s a big win for AI. It also provides a blueprint for how Congress ...

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The best Stratechery content from the week of June 16, 2025, including OpenAI getting testy and xAI getting expensive, speedbumps for China’s car industry, and Meta continuing its AI hiring s… ...

This is how I opened January 2023’s AI and the Big Five: The story of 2022 was the emergence of AI, first with image generation models, including DALL-E, MidJourney, and the open source Stable ...

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

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

WarnerBros. Discovery is splitting up, but the real split goes back to Turner Broadcasting. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access. With Stratechery Plus you get access to the subscriber-only ...

The best Stratechery content from the week of June 9, 2025, including Apple’s Retreat at WWDC, Apple in China, and the upside down NBA Finals.

An Interview with “Apple in China” Author Patrick McGee about Apple’s reluctant shift to outsourcing and how its position relative to its supply chain has shifted over time.

Meta is reportedly buying 49% of Scale AI and hiring CEO Alexandr Wang; this seems to be deal about fixing Llama, not about Scale AI.