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2026.41: It’s Not You, It’s Me
The best Stratechery content from the week of October 5, 2026, including drifting apart from Apple, Facebook complications, and the delightful absurdity of U.S.-China dynamics.
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10-8-2026 ($)
An Interview with Katie Harbath About Disrupting Politics at Facebook
10-7-2026 ($)
•Apple and LG
•The House For Everyone Else
•Agent Standards and Amazon
10-6-2026 ($)
•Game Decompilation
•Is This Legal?
•A Well-Trodden Path
Apple and a Hacker's Future
I was happy for years in Apple's walled garden; with AI, however, their protections feel like limitations.
2026.40: Dots and Question Marks
The best Stratechery content from the week of September 28, 2026, including Meta's focus, what OpenAI is doing, and Mao and NBA Media Day.
10-1-2026 ($)
An Interview with Jason Del Rey About Muse, Amazon, and Walmart
9-30-2026 ($)
•OpenAI Dev Day
•Dot and OpenAI's Product Transition
•Sign In With ChatGPT
9-29-2026 ($)
•One More Note on Agents
•Meta Connect
•Meta Enterprise Platform
Apps, Agents, and Aggregation
Agents are the ultimate Aggregators; they reveal apps as a means, not an ends, and providing them is tech’s biggest prize.
2026.39: Begun, the Aggregator Wars Have
The best Stratechery content from the week of September 21, 2026, including Meta vs. Amazon, GM bending the knee to CarPlay, and profiling the profiler.
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9-24-2026 ($)
An Interview with Colossus EIC Jeremy Stern About Profiling Mark Zuckerberg
9-23-2026 ($)
•More on Muse, Amazon, and Walmart
•Muse and Expedia
•Whither Google?
9-22-2026 ($)
•Amazon Blocks Muse
•Amazon’s Moat
•Aggregator v Aggregator
Frontier Overhangs
Pacing the frontier may be sincere, but it would also be strategically useful for the frontier labs to have time to reduce overhangs caused by model advancement.
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2026.38: Doomforce
The best Stratechery content from the week of September 14, 2026, including the view from anywhere but San Francisco, the limited potential for a pacing deal, and the Salesforce zag.
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9-17-2026 ($)
An Interview with Joanna Stern About the iPhone Duo and AI for Normal People
9-16-2026 ($)
•Salesforce AI Force
•Agents as UI
•The Race to Headless
9-15-2026 ($)
•OpenAI Ads
•Amazon Ads in ChatGPT
•Walmart to Accept Apple Pay
