(Preview) The Anthropic Mess Continues, Frontier AI and the Uncertain Future of Law, Q&A on Netflix, Dating Apps, F1

Ben and Andrew react to a week of Anthropic discussion, including Dario Amodei’s leaked memo to employees, why a compromise is still possible, and answering a variety of questions in response to Ben’s article this week. At the end: A terrible AI law for young parents, surveying the implications for Netflix after Paramount wins the Warner Brothers bidding, a dispatch from dating app hell, a question about feeds on chatbots, should Google be the model for ChatGPT ads?, and thoughts on the business of F1 and the new season.

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Read Anthropic CEO’s Memo Attacking OpenAI’s ‘Mendacious’ Pentagon Announcement — The Information (theinformation.com/articles/read-anthropic-ceo…)

Anthropic and Alignment — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2026/anthropic-and-alignment)

Technological Scale and Government Control, Paramount Outbids Netflix for Warner Bros. — Stratechery Update (stratechery.com/2026/technological-scale-and-g…)

The End of the World As We Know It — Sharp Text (sharptext.net/2026/the-end-of-the-world-as-we-…)

An Interview with Gregory Allen About Anthropic and the U.S. Government — Stratechery Interview (stratechery.com/2026/an-interview-with-gregory…)

AI Homework — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2022/ai-homework)

Pro-Neutrality, Anti-Title II — Stratechery (stratechery.com/2017/pro-neutrality-anti-title…)

The Definitive Ranking of Tech Company Takeability — Sharp Text (sharptext.net/2025/the-definitive-ranking-of-t…)

F1 on Apple TV, Distribution as Differentiation, A Worthwhile Gamble — Stratechery Update (stratechery.com/2025/f1-on-apple-tv-distributi…)

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