The best Stratechery content from the week of April 6, 2026, including Anthropic, The New York Times and another paradigm shift, and The New Yorker explains Sam Altman.

Anthropic says its new model is too dangerous to release; there are reasons to be skeptical, but to the extent Anthropic is ...

Anthropic needs compute, and Google has the most: it’s a natural partnership, particularly for Google.

OpenAI’s purchase of TBPN makes no sense, which may be par for the course for OpenAI. Then, AI is breaking stuff, starting with tech services.

An interview with Asymco’s Horace Dediu about his career in tech, Apple’s first 50 years, and the prospects for the next 50, particularly in the face of AI ...

An interview with New York Times Company CEO Meredith Kopit Levien about human expertise as a moat against Aggregators and AI. Anthropic says its new model is too dangerous to release; there are ...

AI is going to be bad for security in the short-term, but much better than humans in the long-term. With Stratechery Plus you ...

Apple has survived 50 years by being the only company integrating hardware and software; if the company loses because of AI ...

Arm is selling its own chips, not just licensing IP. It’s a big change compared to Arm’s history, but not surprising given how computing is evolving. Subscribe to Stratechery Plus for full access.

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