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stratechery weekly aggregators and ai

Thu Feb 12 2026 19:00:00 GMT-0500 (Eastern Standard Time) ·reference ·source: Stratechery ·by Ben Thompson
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Aggregators and AI (This Week)

Weekly digest — week of February 9, 2026. Highlights: Google earnings/CapEx justified, Amazon CapEx concerns, Spotify as AI beneficiary, Ben Thompson interviewed by John Collison. Combined Big Tech CapEx for 2026 exceeds $700B (approaching 2/3 of US DoD budget).

Format: weekly-digest — stub only, no full assessment.