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Feb 12, 2026
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Ben Thompson from Stratechery on AI ads, the end of SaaS, and the future of media
Ben Thompson
(Founder and Author, Stratechery, guest)
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Executive Summary
The AI industry's growth is fundamentally constrained by TSMC's conservative chip fabrication capacity expansion, creating a high risk of a significant semiconductor shortage around 2029.
AI is poised to disrupt established business models, particularly threatening seat-based SaaS pricing by reducing corporate headcount and shifting the advertising paradigm from search-based intent to anticipatory, profile-driven engagement.
The primary national security risk from TikTok is not data privacy but the Chinese government's potential to manipulate its content algorithm for influence operations, a threat that a forced sale without the algorithm would not solve.
Ben Thompson provides a strategic analysis of Big Tech, characterizing Apple as great at products but poor at platforms, Microsoft as the inverse, and Google as resilient due to its operational inefficiencies.
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