Episodes featuring Ben Thompson
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John Coogan, Jordi Hays, and Ben Thompson discuss how AI agents are changing e-commerce, who wins the agent checkout race, and why physical robotics matters more than digital assistants.
Ben Thompson joins Invest Like The Best to argue AI is real but its funding may run out before revenue catches up, covering China and TSMC, ads, chip shortages, and which big tech companies are best placed.
Ben Thompson joins TBPN to explain how Xbox failed by chasing corporate goals over consumer demand, and how Game Pass and costly acquisitions made things worse.
TBPN hosts and Ben Thompson discuss Blue Origin's $10B funding round at a $130B valuation, Prime Intellect's $130M AI raise, and why Xbox lost the console war to Sony.
Ben Thompson joins TBPN to discuss the conflict between the U.S. government and Anthropic over who controls how powerful AI systems are deployed.
Ben Thompson joins TBPN to discuss his article arguing that AI companies like Anthropic will inevitably face government pressure as AI becomes a source of geopolitical power.