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Edition No. 17 · Wed 8 Jul 2026 · 2 stories · Source: Daily Newsletter Digest
Edition No. 17 · Quiet day
Wednesday 8 July 2026
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A quiet day
2 stories against a usual 19 over the previous seven editions. A light mailbox (a weekend, a holiday) makes a shorter edition: fewer stories, each covered in more depth, never padded. How quiet days are called.
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01 · Stratechery
A Script for Mark ZuckerbergBen Thompson scripts the earnings-call speech he thinks Mark Zuckerberg should give, arguing AI's payoff for Meta is ads, not chatbots.
02 · Where's Your Ed At
Let AI BurnEd Zitron wants no bailouts, arguing about 70% of AI revenue is OpenAI and Anthropic's own compute circling back to Nvidia.
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