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 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.

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