Ben Thompson
7 statements across 5 episodes · 2 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 12, 2024 by John Coogan · said 319 times in 95 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
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brought up most by John Coogan (163), Jordi Hays (30), Logan Bartlett (2), Bill Bishop (2), Tyler Denk (1), Turner Novak (1), Jon Ma (1)
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2026 140 mentions in 45 episodes 3 per episode
- We're all Jerome Powell, Apple and Google Make it Official, Anthropic Health Care | Diet TBPN
- Apple Sues OpenAI, Experts Sign Another AI Warning Letter, Paramount Threatens CA Exit
- YouTubers Win at the Box Office, Bernie Wants Public Stake in AI, Anthropic Files S-1 | Diet TBPN
- AI vs. Dog Cancer, Timothée Chalamet Under Fire, ‘Agents Over Bubbles' | Diet TBPN
- Kim K's New Energy Drink, Citrini Discourse Rages On, the $100B Meta-AMD Deal | Diet TBPN
- Kushner & Iger’s $12.5B Lakers Deal, Grok 4.6 Launches, Anthropic’s Watermarking Move | Diet TBPN
- Microsoft Takes on Frontier AI with Project Solara, OpenClaw, and More at Build 2026 | Diet TBPN
- FULL BREAKDOWN: Trump BANS Anthropic
- 37 more episodes that year, every mention in 2026 →
2025 162 mentions in 42 episodes 4 per episode
- Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- The END of TikTok?
- Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- Weekly Recap: Gwyneth Paltrow Saves Astronomer, Figma’s IPO, Top AI Researchers Ranked
- Is APPLE Headed Downhill? (Investor Breakdown)
- The Truth About Chinese Manufacturing (De Minimis)
- What Open AI Got WRONG
- Project Stargate, The T Word, Ramp Treasury, Audience Ad Reads, See You at Davos
- 34 more episodes that year, every mention in 2025 →
2024 17 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- Billionaires XMAS list (ep21)
- CEO Assassination Deep Dive (ep19)
- Trump's Secret Career (ep7)
- Zuck Just Killed the Apple Vision Pro (ep2)
- Inside JD Vance's Portfolio (ep8)
- CHRISTIANITY: Why it's making a comeback (ep23)
- Inside Facebooks Secret "Red Book" (ep18)
- What is the TRUMP BUBBLE? (ep11)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
Everything said about Ben Thompson, oldest first
Dec 12, 2024 neutral
Jul 26, 2025 negative
Coogan: Exclusive streaming deal risks stalling Formula 1 viewership growth
“The risk for F-one is that the series, which has massive, massive growth is going to conscript its, conscript itself to the streaming backwaters, says Ben Thompson just so it can make a few more bucks in the meantime. So, that, that's the risk, is that F-one g…”
Feb 25, 2026 positive
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Thompson: Anthropic Military Standoff Is First of Many State Power Clashes
“To the extent AI is as impactful and powerful as it is, The more these questions, fundamental questions that we thought have been settled for hundreds of years, if not thousands of years, are going to be raised, and this is just the first of several episodes w…”
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Thompson: China's Dependence on Taiwan Chips Creates Safer Geopolitical Equilibrium
“I think it is a safer equilibrium To have China dependent on Taiwan than to try to cut them off from Taiwan while we are dependent on Taiwan. Taiwan is 70 miles off the coast of China. It's not an ideal position in the world for us to have a dependency on it a…”
Mar 2, 2026 neutral
Thompson: Sovereign Militaries Will Inevitably Seize Control of Frontier AI
“If AI is what it is, The people with guns are going to want to have a say. Whether that be domestically, whether that be internationally, that might be in the context of the U.S. Government just taking it, trying to kill your company because they feel you're n…”
Apr 27, 2026 bullish
Generative UI is the ultimate bull case for Meta AR headsets
“Ben Thompson wrote a big bull case for the meta augmented reality headsets, not just Orion, but also the meta Ray-Ban displays today talking about as AI models get better on the fly UI generation with less Chrome, which is like the top bar and the bottom bar a…”