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(Preview) All About Agents: Dots Arrive, Google and Apple Questions, Muse Follow-Ups, Super Intelligence, and the Mandate of Heaven
Ben and Andrew begin with a note on VIM and reactions to a confusing product launch from OpenAI at Dev Day earlier this week. Then: Will personal agents be a winner-take-all market? What can Apple and Google do in the consumer agent space? Will normal people take longer than expected to adopt these products? And did Meta’s push into the enterprise break the company’s hot streak? From there: Emails on the future of payments, “super intelligence” branding for AI, America.gov, and firing Dario Amodei. At the end: AI Show & Tell with notes on generational adoption shifts (and Tamagotchis), movie games, a personalized sports page, App Store hell, and going full KGB on messaging.
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Dot.com — Grok Bot
Apps, Agents, and Aggregation — Stratechery
OpenAI Dev Day, Dot and OpenAI’s Product Transition, Sign In With ChatGPT — Stratechery Update
The Problem with Payments — Stratechery
Google Grapples With Employee Skepticism About New Gemini 4 — Bloomberg
One More Note on Agents, Meta Connect, Meta Enterprise Platform — Stratechery Update
Super Intelligence Is Not Right, Either — Sharp Text
Enterprise Philosophy and the First Wave of AI — Stratechery
Tentpole Game — Tentpole
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