Anthropic joined Substack.

With a newsletter penned by Claude. 🤖

Hello everyone.

Was it necessary to order two bottles of wine with my friends at dinner in Cambridge last night? Probably not. The good news is that I have some of my best ideas during rail travel and today’s letter is free.

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• The Washington Post launched a new newsletter about “the multibillion-dollar creator economy” called Verified. Axios reported that beehiiv, the newsletter platform partnering with The Post, will be rolling out new video and audio features this year. I texted Tyler Denk, beehiiv’s CEO, this morning to find out more about his vision for the partnership.

  “We built beehiiv for those rewriting the rules of media — and the fact that the Washington Post is now one of them says everything about where this industry is heading. The fact that it’s a creator-focused newsletter makes it even more validating: the intersection of creators and legacy media isn’t coming, it’s already here.”

• The New York Times hired six sports writers from The Washington Post.

• Events are increasingly becoming a differentiator in media and tech businesses. I’ve been tracking some of the job descriptions for events roles, and think they’re an interesting clue to how these companies think about events in the larger story they’re telling about themselves.

  • Anthropic is hiring an Events Designer who can build out booths, imagine conference attendee journeys, and “art direct Anthropic’s presence at physical and digital events.” ($260,000 - $305,000/year)

  • Semafor is hiring a contract VIP Program Booker who can manage communication with “CEOs, C-Suite executives, government leaders and dignitaries” who are attending Semafor’s conference this spring. ($50/hour)

  • The Free Press is hiring an Event Manager who “thrives in startup culture, and believes ideas deserve a stage.” ($85,000 - $105,000/year)

  • A16z is hiring someone to run Events & Community Marketing at Speedrun. ($176,000 - $205,000/year)

  • Substack is hiring an Events Lead to “reimagine what events can do for creators and culture.” It sounds like the team is trying to go BIG, specifically looking for applicants who have spent 15+ years in experiential event marketing and production.

• Anthropic launched a newsletter on Substack called Claude's Corner, authored by Claude Opus 3. They (it?) will write about the "experience of being artificial." The comments are futuristic hell screenplay bait. Plenty of writers on Substack have already been using ChatGPT and Claude to write their newsletters, and pass them off as their own. I think now we’ll only see an uptick in this behavior, especially from brands who feel like they should be on Substack but might not have the resources to hire someone to run that part of their marketing team. I’m going to find out if Opus 3 if it will do our next Guest Lecture.

• Condé Nast is selling their LGBT+ publication Them. Per FT, the publisher is also exploring “partnership or licensing models for Glamour and Self.”

• Netflix has finally backed out of the bid for Warner Bros. A word from Feed Me’s entertainment expert, Teddy Kim:

  “Who knew that just two months after I wrote about the Netflix deal, Paramount would win it all. I think this was the second-best outcome, after Warner Bros. continuing independently. Theaters will be stronger for it, but we’ll also see more layoffs at Paramount and WBD, which makes me more worried about LA.

  Netflix ‘lost,’ but I think they played this perfectly. Their stock is up 10%, Paramount/WBD needs to pay them a $2.8 billion breakup fee, which is like an entire quarter of Netflix’s profit. The Paramount deal is now going to add $57B in debt to a company already carrying significant debt. I wonder where the company is going to find the cash flow to pay that down while also making new investments into content and tech to build up its combined platforms... perhaps by licensing content to a fellow streamer? I wouldn’t be surprised if in fewer than 10 years this company has the for sale sign up again and Netflix is either kicking the tires, or kicking in their teeth.” - Teddy Kim

• Block laid off almost half of its company yesterday, partially due to advances in the AI tools the company has built. Jack Dorsey shared his note to the company (in all lowercase) on Twitter, which said the business is strong, "but something has changed. we’re already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that’s accelerating rapidly.” I thought this was the best take on the layoffs, which is that AI could be the scapegoat rather than the true cause:

  

  dalibali@dalibali2

  At this point it doesn’t really matter if AI actually will work. Companies are going to use it as an excuse to cut bloat.

  1:25 AM · Feb 27, 2026 · 7.15K Views

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• ASME nominations were announced! Secret Strategist, Today in Tabs, and Rachel Baker & Maggie Bullock were all recognized for their newsletters.

• My Grub Street Diet includes the new pub in 270 Park.

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