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 ...

This year Stratechery published 26 free Articles, 109 subscriber Updates, and 39 Interviews. Below is a summary of most of ...

ChatGPT Image 1.5 launched, and while it seems comparable to Gemini’s Nano Banana Pro, the product around it shows OpenAI’s ...

Disney made a deal with OpenAI, which both speaks to the durability of Disney’s assets and to OpenAI’s competition with Google.

The best Stratechery content from the week of January 8, 2025, including why Netflix wants Warner, more on Netflix, and all about Flighty.

An interview with Ryan Jones about Flighty, my favorite iOS app, and how the App Store has evolved over the last 15 years.

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 ...

A common explanation as to why Star Wars was such a hit, and continues to resonate nearly half a century on from its release, is that it is a nearly perfect representation of the hero’s journey. You ...

It was difficult in the beginning to answer the question I got from everyone: what’s it like living in America again? After all, I had been coming back to Wisconsin in the summer for years, and my ...

It’s funny to remember that a decade ago there were enough people convinced we were in a bubble that I felt compelled to write an Article entitled It’s Not 1999; that was right then, and it’s ...

OpenAI’s flood of announcements is getting hard to keep up with. A selection — not exhaustive! — from just the last month: The last two announcements just dropped yesterday, and actually bring clarity ...