Daily Update
Archive of Daily Emails for Stratechery Members
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Cloudflare’s Content Independence Day, Google’s Advantage, Monetizing AI
Cloudflare is unilaterally blocking AI crawlers unless they are willing to pay
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Cognition Buys Windsurf, Nvidia Can Sell to China, Grok 4 and Kimi
Cognition rescues Windsurf, Nvidia can sell H20s to China, and Grok 4 and Kimi K2 point to future avenues of model improvement
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Google and Windsurf, Stinky Deals, Chesterton’s Fence and the Silicon Valley Ecosystem
Windsurf’s founders and IP are going to Google in the latest stinky deal that is downstream of regulator’s recklessly messing the startup ecosystem.
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Summer Break: Week of June 30
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 the week of July 7. Greatest of All Talk and Asianometry will continue to publish. The full Stratechery posting […]
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Training AI is Fair Use, Product Protection Versus LLM Liability, Piracy and Competition
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 can do more.
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xAI Raising Money, xAI and Oracle, Xbox = Windows
Everyone wants xAI to exist, but is anyone actually using it? Then, Xbox as it once existed is dead; it’s just Windows now.